Indigenous tribes in the region call on the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency.
The smoke from a fire in a forest area approaches houses at the Cacau Pirera District in Iranduba, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 25, 2023.
Air quality became so poor last week in places like Manaus that officials had to postpone the city’s annual marathon, and major universities canceled classes. Philip Fearnside, research professor at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia, said hospitals in the city are full of people who are having respiratory issues. “That should be a wake up call to actually change government policies and individual behavior to actually contain global warming,” he said.
Macedo warns that if the cycles that maintain the Amazon rainforests trademark wet, rainy, cloudy conditions start to dissipate, the forest could be permanently altered
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