New York » The northeast of the United States is breathing again: the smoke from the fires in Canada, which caused air pollution alerts for more than 100 million Americans this week, has slowly little dissipated on Friday.
In New York as in Washington, the air quality is now at a “moderate” level (yellow), according to the index of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
In the American capital, the sky is blue again, but the children of the public schools of the city still cannot spend their recess outside, as a precaution. In New York, schoolchildren in public establishments take their lessons remotely on Friday, a measure announced the day before.
Fine particle concentrations are 10 to 20 times lower Friday morning in Washington compared to the same time the day before, Ryan Stauffer, a NASA scientist specializing in air pollution, told AFP.
The improvement is notably the
2023-06-10 01:07:04
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