Tens of millions of people in the US were under air quality alerts on Wednesday, as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, turning the sky a murky brown and saturating the air with harmful pollution. Hundreds of fires are burning in Canada, from the western provinces to Nova Scotia and Quebec in the east
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A person in Weehawken, New Jersey, looks out at the New York City skyline as it is covered with haze and smoke from Canada wildfires
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Wed 7 Jun 2023 14.58 EDT Last modified on Wed 7 Jun 2023 15.08 EDT
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