(AGENPARL) – WASHINGTON ven 09 giugno 2023 Climate change is making air quality worse around the country and across the globe, which is directly making people sicker. Within the United States, one clear and visible cause of poor air quality are the more frequent, destructive, and longer-lasting wildfires that fill the air with harmful smoke, including particulate matter.
Since the 1980s, but especially in recent decades, western states have felt the increasing negative impacts of wildfires, as they burn for longer and with more frequency. The smoke that blanketed the eastern United States this week underscores that the impacts of climate change and the fires it exacerbates will be felt nationwide.
Fonte/Source: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/issue-briefs?ContentRecord_id=414884EF-A7E4-49E2-80EE-C977F8DEEAF8