Dramatic rise in forest fires projected for Canada’s West due to warming @ Globe & Mail
Plus de 300 000 morts liées aux feux de forêt @ La Presse
Landscape fire smoke contributes to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide, new research suggests @ Science Codex
Worldwide, smoke from landscape fires contributed to an average of 339,000 deaths per year between 1997 and 2006, according to new research published in Environmental Health Perspectives and released today during the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia were the hardest hit by fire-smoke deaths, with an estimated annual average of 157,000 and 110,000 deaths, respectively, attributable to landscape fire smoke exposure, said researcher Fay Johnston, who represented a global team at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
”It’s time to look at deforestation impacts on fires, which in turn affect human health,” said Johnston, a research fellow at the Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. (…)
