{"id":76167,"date":"2026-07-16T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/air-quality-plummets-in-20-states-as-smoke-from-canadian-wildfires-spreads-across-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:54:54","slug":"air-quality-plummets-in-20-states-as-smoke-from-canadian-wildfires-spreads-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/air-quality-plummets-in-20-states-as-smoke-from-canadian-wildfires-spreads-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality plummets in 20 states as smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans face air quality alerts from Minnesota to New York as authorities urge people to stay indoors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smoke from wildfires burning in south-central <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wildfires-smoke-canada-minnesota-08d3fb58a434a5d42803ab1c2bbda0b3\">Canada and parts of Minnesota<\/a> is spreading across the US, prompting air quality alerts in more than 20 states with millions of Americans expected to face unhealthy air conditions this week.<\/p>\n<p>The smoke from the more than <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/earth\/earth-observatory\/ontario-wildfire-smoke-moves-east\/\">180<\/a> active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/15\/wildfires-in-ontario-make-toronto-canada-air-quality-worst-in-world\">wildfires in northern Ontario<\/a> briefly made Toronto\u2019s air quality among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/16\/weather\/canada-wildfire-smoke-us.html\">worst in the world<\/a> on Wednesday. By Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWS_MountHolly\/status\/2077228042443796628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2077228042443796628%7Ctwgr%5E0ddaccc9af275681f339bf9f5192b5ecd615c97f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7ny.com%2Fpost%2Fwildfires-expose-millions-midwest-northeast-us-dangerous-smoke%2F19512557%2F\">night<\/a>, the smoke had spread across several US states, from Minnesota, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/13\/us\/wildfires-boundary-waters-forest-minnesota.html\">multiple wildfires are also burning,<\/a> to New York, blanketing the skies in haze and worsening air quality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/16\/smoke-canadian-wildfires-air-quality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans face air quality alerts from Minnesota to New York as authorities urge people to stay indoors Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Smoke from wildfires burning in south-central Canada and parts of Minnesota is spreading across the US, prompting air quality alerts in more than 20 states with millions &#8230; <a title=\"Air quality plummets in 20 states as smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across the US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/air-quality-plummets-in-20-states-as-smoke-from-canadian-wildfires-spreads-across-the-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Air quality plummets in 20 states as smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across the US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}