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May 23, 2023

Alberta Wildfires Scorch Millions of Acres and Trigger Air Quality Alerts
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In Alberta, Canada, forecasters say rain and cooling temperatures should
help firefighters bring a record-smashing spring wildfire season under
control, after some 2.3 million acres burned. Smoke from the fires has
prompted air quality alerts in U.S. states including Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and Utah. 
On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization reported extreme
weather events have caused some 2 million deaths since 1970, with over
90% of those killed from the Global South.


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