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Drought, deforestation in Amazon exacerbate COVID-19 impact: U of T researcher (photo by Paralaxis via Getty Images)
With the dry season ending across the Amazon rainforest, scientists and researchers are once again assessing the damage in a region where tree removal, clearing of exposed land for farming and severe drought are combining to put the lives of populations – many of them Indigenous – at risk.
But there’s now also a new threat to contend with: COVID-19.
Gabriel de Oliveira, a post-doctoral researcher with Professor
Jing Chen in the department of geography and planning in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Science, says breathing difficulties and respiratory challenges brought on by the coronavirus are being exacerbated by the ecological crisis that had been developing in the Amazon over several years.