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The air quality in Chicago has reached unhealthy levels as the city is affected by the smoke coming from the wildfires in Canada, where record-beating emissions are leading to the smoke travelling ...
The smoke from those fires created hazardous conditions in New York City earlier this month, when the metropolis’s Air Quality Index spiked to 405, shattering the previous record of 279 set in 1981.
On June 14, an air quality alert was issued for Minnesota due to dangerous air quality levels affecting the state. The air quality in Minneapolis reached 256 at 6:00 pm that day. [ 202 ] On June 27, the smoke spread over the Midwest, causing Chicago to suffer from the worst air quality in the world, reaching 228 AQI. [ 203 ]
Canada’s wildfire season this year is the worst on record, with around 29,000 square miles burning in eastern and western Canada, which is greater than the combined area that burned in 2016 ...
The Chicago flood occurred on April 13, 1992, when repair work on a bridge spanning the Chicago River damaged the wall of an abandoned and disused utility tunnel beneath the river. The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 ...
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov site showed parts of Illinois, lower Michigan and southern Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon, and Chicago ...
Iroquois Theatre fire: Fire (building) Chicago, Illinois: Worst theater fire in American history; worst single-building fire. 600 1928 St. Francis Dam: Accident – dam failure Santa Clarita, California: 581 1947 Texas City disaster: Accident – explosion Texas City, Texas: Ammonium nitrate on board ship 501+ 1896 Tornado outbreak sequence of ...