Smoke exposure accounted for 2 premature deaths per 100,000 in the general population, but 4 per 100,000 in Indigenous territories. The research shows that smoke from wildfires in South America accounted for approximately 12,000 premature deaths every year from 2014 to 2019, with about 230 of those deaths occurring in Indigenous territories. The study - authored by researchers at Harvard University, the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and other institutions - was just published in the journal Environmental Research: Health. Regions in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil are identified as particular hotspots for smoke exposure, with mortality rates rising to as high as six times that of the general population. A new study reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from smoke exposure due to wildfires than the broader South American population.
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