The Air is Unbearable”: Health Impacts of Deforestation-Related Fires in the Brazilian

The 50-page report, “The Air is Unbearable: Health Impacts of Deforestation-Related Fires in the Brazilian ,” uses official health and environmental data to estimate that 2,195 hospitalizations due to respiratory illness are attributable to the 2019 fires. Nearly 500 involved infants under a year old, and more than 1,000 involved people over age 60. These hospitalizations represent only a fraction of the total health impact from fires, as millions of people were exposed in 2019 to harmful levels of air pollution resulting from the deforestation-related burning of the .

Frontiers Beyond Deforestation: Carbon Emissions From Land Grabbing and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian

Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018

Rainforest Fires: Here's What's Really Happening - The New York Times

Brazil: Fires Affect Health of Thousands

Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice - The Lancet

The Environmental consequences of tropical deforestation

Supply Chain Laws to Fight Deforestation Must Back Indigenous Rights

Air quality and human health improvements from reductions in deforestation-related fire in Brazil

The health impacts of the smoke from the fires in the - Greenpeace International