WILDFIRES
Amazon fires put 36 Amazonas towns in a state of emergency
Autazes, in Manaus. Photo: Rogério Cassimiro/MMA
The air in Manaus breached the World Health Organization's guideline for fine particulate matter for every hour on October 8. A reference station run by public health institute Fiocruz in the Amazonas state capital recorded a daily average of 99 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meter, more than six times the WHO's daily limit of 15 micrograms, and a peak of 235 micrograms at 11 pm.
A technical note issued on Oct. 10 by Fiocruz's Climate and Health Observatory and the Health Ministry's Indigenous Health Secretariat shows…
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