Report: The Limits of Livability – The emerging threat of smoke impacts on health from forest fires and climate change

Bigger, more frequent forest and bush fires are having increased and not yet well-studied health impacts on people – including through longer and more frequent exposure to fire smoke by larger populations in distant cities – according to a report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.

The Limits of Livability – The emerging threat of smoke impacts on health from forest fires and climate change, with case studies from Australia, Brazil and Canada, warns that worldwide, governments must act to prepare public health systems for the impacts to the public from recurring air pollution episodes from fires caused by the climate crisis, deforestation practices, and poor land management.