Rebecca Kaarina Saari

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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo

People walk wearing masks as an air quality health advisory was issued in New York in June 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki).

May 25, 2026

Rebecca Kaarina Saari, University of Waterloo

By 2100, 100 million Americans could breathe unhealthy air in the summer, seven times more than in 2000.

Smoke from wildfires hangs over Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 6. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

June 9, 2023

Rebecca Kaarina Saari, University of Waterloo

Answers to some of the most common questions about wildfire smoke, health risks and the air quality situation affecting most of North America.