Climate-driven Wildfires Reversing Pollution Progress In N. America: Study

Barron's · last updated August 27, 2025 – 9:42 PM

Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

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