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Amazon Fires Poison the Air in Brazil
Read the report: https://www.hrw.org/node/376135 Fires resulting from unchecked deforestation are poisoning the air millions of people breathe, affecting hea ...
Read the report: https://www.hrw.org/node/376135
Fires resulting from uncontrolled deforestation are poisoning the air that millions of people breathe and affecting health across the Brazilian Amazon, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Institute for Health Studies (IEPS) and Human Rights Watch, according to a report today published report. The fires and deforestation in the Amazon increased dramatically in 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro's first year in office, and 2020 is already proving to be worse, according to the groups.
The 50-page report "The Air Is Unbearable": Health Effects of Deforestation Fires in the Brazilian Amazon "uses official health and environmental data to estimate that 2.195 hospital stays for respiratory diseases were attributable to the fires in 2019. Almost 500 affected infants under 1 year of age and more than 1.000 affected people over 60 years of age. These hospital stays account for a fraction of the total health effects of fires as millions of people were exposed to harmful levels of air pollution in 2019, deforestation-related deforestation-related deforestation in the Amazon.
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