The Brazilian rainforest is one of the world’s few continental regions with clean air. However, this is only true during the wet season, when the concentration of particulate matter is very low. During the dry season, it’s a different story: numerous deforestation fires burn within the Amazon rainforest, as an “arc of deforestation” eats into the rainforest from the south.
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Source: Phys.org