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SCIENCEJul 17 · 22:42 UTCTHE ATLANTICNancy Walecki

Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has severely degraded air quality in U.S. cities like Philadelphia and Detroit. The article compares this to the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which caused global darkness, wildfires, and a dust cloud that blocked sunlight, leading to mass extinction.

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