New research published today in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that the Amazon rainforest and its Indigenous territories can absorb as much as 26,000 metric tons of dangerous pollutants released by fires every year, thus preventing thousands of cases of deadly respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and significantly reducing health care costs in some of the region’s most deforested cities.
Click here for original story, Indigenous-managed forests in Brazil’s Amazon absorb thousands of dangerous pollutants from wildfires
Source: Phys.org