From New York this is Democracy Now.

This air quality event, which for a time yesterday, gave us the worst air quality in New York

City since the 1960s presents real health risks.

The fine particulate matter in the air can get into people's lungs, cause inflammation,

and worse in conditions like asthma, chronic lung disease, or underlying heart conditions.

Over 90 million people are under air quality alerts as hazardous smoke from wildfires and

Canada blanket much of the Eastern United States.

In New York City, the sky turned orange Wednesday, as the city's air became the most polluted

in the world.

We'll speak to David Wallace-Welles of the New York Times about the link between the

climate emergency and the fires, his latest piece, as smoke darkens the sky, the future

becomes clear.

And we look at why the world's deadliest wars go unreported.

My name is Anjana Sundaram, and the author of Break Up, A Marriage in War Time, about the

deadly war in the Central African Republic, where the Wagner Group is mining diamonds and

gold to finance their war in Ukraine.

The war in the Central African Republic, like many of the deadliest wars in our world,

has mostly unreported, and I'll be talking about what we can do to cover these wars better.

Call that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the War in Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

Large swaths of the United States and Canada woke up to hazy skies and air quality alerts

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