Air quality warnings have been issued for much of B.C.\u2019s South Coast, where smoke wafting from wildfires on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border has created hazy skies.<\/p>\n
Elevated levels of fine particulate matter have been detected across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as a result, creating a risk of negative health effects.<\/p>\n
The conditions are expected to last \u201ca few days, or until there is a change in the weather,\u201d according to a notice posted on the Metro Vancouver Regional District website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As of the early afternoon, the smoke had pushed Vancouver to the top of a \u201cmost-polluted major city\u201d ranking<\/a> from IQAir, a Swiss company that develops air quality monitoring systems.<\/p>\n Behind Vancouver were the cities of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Lahore, Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Air quality warnings have been issued for much of B.C.\u2019s South Coast, where smoke wafting from wildfires on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border has created hazy skies.<\/p>\n Elevated levels of fine particulate matter have been detected across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as a result, creating a risk of negative health effects.<\/p>\n The conditions are expected to last \u201ca few days, or until there is a change in the weather,\u201d according to a notice posted on the Metro Vancouver Regional District website on Wednesday.<\/p>\n As of the early afternoon, the smoke had pushed Vancouver to the top of a \u201cmost-polluted major city\u201d ranking<\/a> from IQAir, a Swiss company that develops air quality monitoring systems.<\/p>\n