Air pollution from fires hits world’s poorest hardest: study

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People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the world, according to new research published Wednesday.

Papers cited

Marshall Burke et al, The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA, Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06522-6

Rongbin Xu et al, Global population exposure to landscape fire air pollution from 2000 to 2019, Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06398-6

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