Fires in the Amazon don't just release carbon directly. The ozone they generate damages the surrounding forest too, adding roughly a quarter again to fire's carbon losses. Great work led by Dr Flossie Brown, now out open access in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Poor air quality across Borneo due to tropical peat fires having a massive impact on human health bbc.com/news/article...
A new paper led by Dr Mst Nahid Farha. Air pollution and specifically ozone continues to rise across much of the tropics and understanding how this will interact with the diversity of tropical forests is vital to understanding the future of tropical systems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
