Large Air Quality and Public Health Impacts due to Amazonian Deforestation Fires in 2019.

ABSTRACT: Air pollution from Amazon fires has adverse impacts on human health. The number of fires in the Amazon has increased in recent years, but whether this increase was driven by deforestation or climate has not been assessed. We analyzed relationships between fire, deforestation, and climate for the period 2003 to 2019 among selected states across the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA). A statistical model including deforestation, precipitation and temperature explained ∼80% of the variability in dry season fire count across states when totaled across the BLA, with positive relationships between fire count and deforestation. We estimate that the increase in deforestation since 2012 increased the dry season fire count in 2019 by 39%. Using a regional chemistry-climate model combined with exposure-res

SUBMITTER: Butt EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8311915 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature