Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires, study suggests

Mongabay
Apr 11, 2023, 10:14 pm146 pts
SÃO PAULO—A new study published in Nature estimates that forests in Indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon have the potential to absorb over 7,000 tons of noxious fumes from forest fires every year, preventing about 15 million cases of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases annually, which would otherwise…

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