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Toxic Skies: The Amazon is now breathing dirtier air than the world’s biggest cities

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/79467/toxic-skies-the-amazon-is-now-breathing-dirtier-air-than-the-worlds-biggest-cities/

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29768839

A new Greenpeace International report, Toxic Skies: How Agribusiness is Choking the Amazon, reveals how fires linked to industrial agriculture are turning the forest’s air toxic during the dry season. The findings are a stark warning that the Amazon’s crisis is not only about trees. It is about the air millions of people breathe, and the health of our shared planet.

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