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Fires in the Amazon don't just release carbon directly. The ozone they generate damages the surrounding forest too, adding roughly a quarter again to fire's carbon losses. Great work led by Dr Flossie Brown, now out open access in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Fire-derived ozone intensifies carbon loss in Amazon forests under extreme droughts - Communications Earth & Environment
Fire-derived ozone increases carbon losses from the Amazon by about one quarter of direct fire emissions, with damage persisting during extreme drought despite stomatal limitation, based on land-surfa...
www.nature.com
October 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Fires in the Amazon don't just release carbon directly. The ozone they generate damages the surrounding forest too, adding roughly a quarter again to fire's carbon losses. Great work led by Dr Flossie Brown, now out open access in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Poor air quality across Borneo due to tropical peat fires having a massive impact on human health bbc.com/news/article...
Haze-choked Indonesia records more than 170,000 respiratory cases
More than 40,000 of the cases – which range from mild coughs to pneumonia – involve toddlers.
bbc.com
October 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Poor air quality across Borneo due to tropical peat fires having a massive impact on human health bbc.com/news/article...
A new paper led by Dr Mst Nahid Farha. Air pollution and specifically ozone continues to rise across much of the tropics and understanding how this will interact with the diversity of tropical forests is vital to understanding the future of tropical systems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 5, 2026 at 5:40 AM
A new paper led by Dr Mst Nahid Farha. Air pollution and specifically ozone continues to rise across much of the tropics and understanding how this will interact with the diversity of tropical forests is vital to understanding the future of tropical systems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Featured on the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social is a thermal image of Elaeocarpus Grandis taken at @jcuofficial.bsky.social Daintree Rainforest Observatory. In this species we find that populations originating from warmer climates have narrower leaves with higher rates of water loss.
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Featured on the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social is a thermal image of Elaeocarpus Grandis taken at @jcuofficial.bsky.social Daintree Rainforest Observatory. In this species we find that populations originating from warmer climates have narrower leaves with higher rates of water loss.
New Article just out By Sean Mowbray featuring contributions from TropOz, on the impacts of ozone to planetary health. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/grou...
Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health
Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level, this gas can wreak havoc on plane...
news.mongabay.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
New Article just out By Sean Mowbray featuring contributions from TropOz, on the impacts of ozone to planetary health. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/grou...
New Student led paper on the impacts of ozone on the important crop Sorghum peerj.com/articles/188...
Examining ozone effects on the tropical C4 crop Sorghum bicolor
Ozone (O3), a major air pollutant, can negatively impact plant growth and yield. While O3 impacts have been widely documented in crops such as wheat and soybean, few studies have looked at the effects...
peerj.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
New Student led paper on the impacts of ozone on the important crop Sorghum peerj.com/articles/188...
December 4, 2024 at 5:02 AM