May 28, 2023, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Thick plumes of heavy smoke fill the Halifax sky as an out-of-control fire in a suburban community quickly spread, engulfing multiple homes and forcing the evacuation of local residents. (Credit Image: © Kelly Clark/The Canadian Press via ZUMA Press)

June 1, 2023 - Nova Scotia, Canada - For much of May 2023, wildland fires raged in western Canada. In the last few days of the month, blazes flared up thousands of miles to the east as well, in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. The fires, unusually large for Nova Scotia, forced the evacuation of thousands of people. Smoke billowed from a fire near the town of Shelburne on May 29, when an astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph. By the morning of May 31, after four days of burning, the fire had scorched 17,000 hectares (66 square miles) near the southern tip of Nova Scotia (Credit Image: © NASA Earth/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com)