{"id":694983,"date":"2026-07-16T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:47:08","slug":"more-than-800-canadian-wildfires-burning-as-air-quality-alerts-extend-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694983\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 800 Canadian wildfires burning as air quality alerts extend to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Air quality in the Midwestern city of Detroit is currently the worst in the world, Swiss air quality tracker IQAir said, followed by Minneapolis and Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Republican lawmakers in the state of Michigan have penned <a href=\"https:\/\/bergman.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/canadian_wildfires_summer_2026.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter, external<\/a> to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asking for better management of the country&#8217;s wildfires, expressing frustration for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A year has passed, the season has come around again, and nothing has changed except that our patience has run out,&#8221; said the letter, signed by four House representatives from the US state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to Canada, struck a more diplomatic tone in a statement on Wednesday commending wildfire fighting efforts from both countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This challenge knows no borders. The United States will continue to coordinate closely with Canada, just as we have for more than four decades of shared wildfire emergencies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality in the Midwestern city of Detroit is currently the worst in the world, Swiss air quality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}