Ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the long-distance transport of unhealthy air, according to a new study titled "Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the U.S.," led by University of Iowa researchers and published in the journal Science.

Ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the long-distance transport of unhealthy air, according to a new study titled “Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the U.S.,” led by University of Iowa researchers and published in the journal Science.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I’m sure the environment would handle the pollutant influx of more wildfires just fine if we weren’t doing the equivalent of burning a continent’s worth of grasslands a year.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        No I meant that all the fossil fuels we burn are overloading the ecosystems ability to absorb it all, and normally it wouldn’t have a problem absorbing the CO2 from more wildfires if we weren’t doing that.

        • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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          2 hours ago

          Gotcha. Yea fully agree. The fact that we burn forests to make more agriculture space ain’t helping either.