Wildfires scorching several Canadian provinces have driven at least 33,400 people from their homes, with smoke now reaching all the way to Europe.

Plumes of smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada have been blown across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, with more expected to arrive this week, satellite data shows.

About 200 fires are actively burning in Canada and have consumed about 19,900 square kilometres of terrain, most of it in the last week. View on euronews

Smoke from the deadly Canada wildfires is blanketing parts of the US and Europe, causing widespread air quality concerns. The Environmental Protection Agency has reported "very unhealthy" air quality in the Midwest, Northeast, and Great Lakes regions of the US, prompting expert recommendations for precautionary measures.

Wind pushed smoke from Alberta and B.C.’s wildfires to Calgary Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, leading to an air quality warning for the city and a large portion of the province. Some of those fires have grown significantly due to the merging of four smaller blazes into two larger ones.

A new report from a collective of national science academies across Europe calls for collective action to face increasingly disastrous wildfires in the region. The report was recently published by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council,

Heavy smoke from intense wildfires in Canada has reached northwestern Europe, the European Union's climate monitoring service has said.

Outdated data and failure by member states to prioritise risk areas mean EU money to tackle forest fires is not always effectively spent on the ground. View on euronews