Este reportaje fue actualizado el 1 de diciembre del 2020 para incluir nuevos datos sobre la deforestación en Brasil.
Durante agosto del 2019, el aumento de los incendios en Brasil y Bolivia volvió a poner el Amazonas en el punto de mira.
Según un informe del Instituto de Investigación Ambiental de la Amazonía (IPAM) los fuegos estaban directamente relacionados con la deforestación.
A pesar de las promesas del gobierno de que pondría fin a la deforestación, los incendios en el bosque volvieron a ocurrir durante el mismo periodo de 2020. Read More...
Explore More As wildfires scorch Canada and smoke blankets the United States from Minnesota to New England and south to Florida, millions of people are under air-quality alerts.
Face masks — the same kind used in the COVID-19 pandemic — can help protect people from dangerously polluted air, say health experts. But choose a good quality mask, they caution.
“N95 masks are the type of face covering protection that I would recommend for somebody who is outside during the air pollution caused by wildfires,” Marina Vance, PhD, an assistant professor in the environmental engineering program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, told Healthline. Read More...
Explore More A bystander wounded during a wild shootout between rival gangs at a Bronx subway station thought he had been zapped by a powerful bolt of electricity — until he saw the blood, his sister told The Post on Tuesday.
Alpha Diallo, 28, had just gotten off the phone with his sister Monday when he was caught in the gangbangers’ crossfire at the Mount Eden subway station and struck in the right arm by a 9 mm slug, police said. Read More...
