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Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.

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[-] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Never, cause it'll keep regrowing to burn again.

[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

At some point a dust bowl or flood will rip away the topsoil after a fire, and the forest will stop growing back. It'll just be a barren desert.

Of course then the dust and sand storms can still give you dust pneumonia, silicosis, and lung cancer, but technically that's not the forests.

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