Wildfires Can Negate Measures to Improve Air Quality

berlingske.dk

BT

Lean Right

View article

avisendanmark.dk

View article

+2 Reposted by 2 other sources

Lean Right

Factuality

Ownership

Extreme fire smoke has become far more frequent and may have contributed to almost 100,000 additional deaths annually.

Telegraf – Najnovije vesti

Factuality

Ownership

Pollution from increasingly intense wildfires and heatwaves could undermine and slow global efforts to improve air quality as well.

news4health.gr

Factuality

Ownership

A report by the WMO concluded that classical models based on the concentration of microparticles can underestimate by up to 93% the mortality due to fires. Contamination from increasingly fierce fires and heat waves undermine global efforts to improve air quality and the protection of people's health, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned today. In its annual report on air quality, the WMO warns of an increase in “extreme forest fir…