People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the world, according to new research published Wednesday.
, whether planned or uncontrolled such as the wildfires that have ravaged countries including Algeria, Canada and Greece this year.
The annual air pollution from landscape fires in low-income countries was around four times higher than in rich nations, they found, with central Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Siberia experiencing the highest levels.Shandy Li, an associate professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia who co-authored the study, said warming meant that the pollution"phenomena might be worse in the future".
Some 2.18 billion people a year on average were exposed to at least one day of"substantial" air pollution coming from landscape fire sources between 2010 and 2019, an increase of almost seven percent on the previous decade.
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