By Nia Williams REVELSTOKE, British Columbia (Reuters) - Millions of people in the western Canadian province of British Columbia were under air quality ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSREVELSTOKE, British Columbia - Millions of people in the western Canadian province of British Columbia were under air quality warnings on Monday as hundreds of wildfires filled the skies with smoke and turned the sun orange.
Wildfire smoke is a seasonal occurrence for much of heavily-forested British Columbia, but the number of wildfires and amount of land burned is trending higher as a result of climate change, increasing concerns about the impact on human health. Huge fires near the interior's biggest city Kelowna and around Shuswap Lake have destroyed an unknown number of homes, forcing the federal government to call in the military to help tackle blazes.
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