Canadian Wildfires Bring Smoke (and Memes) to the East Coast

I like working outside. On Tuesday, June 6, while typing away in my modest backyard, the hazy air (which I had attributed to unpleasant New York City summers) started to smell like a campfire. Shortly after, I learned the haze and accompanying smell hailed all the way from Canada, where wildfires are ravaging the forests. …
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The Chernobyl Wildfires Are 2020’s Latest Little ‘Surprise’

In case anyone was still waiting for an April disaster to happen, perhaps this is it!  For anyone not yet in the know, forest fires began burning on April 4th in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. The fires came dangerously close to the site of the infamous Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and have released …
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