As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze

Mongabay
Dec 23, 2021, 12:22 pm420 pts
RIO BRANCO, Brazil — The intensification of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon is increasingly impacting the health of local populations, with a marked effect on the region’s Indigenous peoples. Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of respiratory ailments in northern states such as Acre is…

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