New York pollution alert amid smoke from wildfires in west and Canada

New York (AFP) July 20, 2021

New York and parts of the eastern United States and Canada were shrouded in a gray smoky haze Tuesday from fires burning in the western United States and Canada. New York state's environmental protection services issued an air quality advisory, automatically triggered when fine particle matter is expected to rise above 35 micrograms per cubic meter of air. An expert from the agency said