{"id":4029,"date":"2026-10-09T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:02:10","slug":"amazon-rainforest-fires-cause-ozone-pollution-and-damage-to-the-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/amazon-rainforest-fires-cause-ozone-pollution-and-damage-to-the-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Rainforest Fires Cause Ozone Pollution and Damage to the Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 7, a research team from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom released a study indicating that pollutants emitted by Amazon rainforest fires undergo photochemical reactions to form ground-level ozone, which damages leaves and inhibits photosynthesis. This reduces the rainforest\u2019s carbon absorption by an amount equivalent to 24 percent of the carbon emissions from the fires. Influenced by a super El Ni\u00f1o, drought conditions have intensified, increasing the risk of wildfires and ozone pollution and creating a vicious cycle. Additionally, smoke and particulate matter cross borders, polluting the air in many South American countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7, a research team from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom released a study indicating that pollutants emitted by Amazon rainforest fires undergo photochemical reactions to form ground-level ozone, which damages leaves and inhibits photosynthesis. This reduces the rainforest\u2019s carbon absorption by an amount equivalent to 24 percent of the carbon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-rainforest"],"views":15,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}