Answers to some of the most common questions about wildfire smoke, health risks and the air quality situation affecting most of North America.
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There is an alarming lack of disaster preparedness plans in Canada that consider the unique risks and needs of unhoused people during wildfires.
School systems need to wake up from ‘business as usual’ learning. Teachers can draw on terror management theory in their work on the front lines with students navigating the climate crisis.
Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Chicago and Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the flames.
Canadian financial institutions — banks, pension funds and private equity firms — fund the fossil fuel industry and are therefore helping fuel the climate crisis. Why won’t Ottawa hold them to account?
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Sciences, University of The Fraser Valley
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Master's student, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta
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Adjunct faculty and Associate Lecturer, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University; York University, Canada
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PhD candidate, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
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Research Associate Professor in Toxicology, University of Montana