PORTLAND: Dense smog from US wildfires that have burnt nearly 5 million acres and killed 27 people smothered the West Coast on Saturday , as presidential challenger Joe Biden warned climate change is becoming an existential issue.
Worsening the sense of environmental catastrophe, all five of the world's most air-polluted cities on Saturday were on the West Coast, according to IQAir, with dense smog and ash from the blazes coating the atmosphere from Los Angeles up to Vancouver in Canada. A man walks by CORT Furniture Outlet on Sutter St as an orange wildfire haze blankets San Francisco, California, Sep 9, 2020 in this image obtained from social media.
One 56-year-old woman told AFP she and her daughter don't know if their ash-caked house in Aims, a short drive east of Portland, is still standing. Climate change amplifies droughts which dry out regions, creating ideal conditions for wildfires to spread out of control and inflict huge material and environmental damage.
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