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D. With more than 22 million people, Sao Paulo’s metropolitan area is the most populous in the western hemisphere. The smoke recently made Sao Paulo’s air the most polluted in the world. Inhaling wildfire smoke contributes to an average of 12,000 early deaths a year in South America, according to a 2013 study.
B. At an elevation of 11,975 feet above sea level, La Paz is the highest capital city in the world. It has an urban area population of 2.2 million people, the second largest in Bolivia. The lowland Bolivian region of Santa Cruz is the most populous in the nation, and it has been blanketed by wildfire smoke like Sao Paulo.
C. By the year 2022 around 26% of the forest was considered as deforested or highly degraded. Deforestation of the Amazon is making droughts far more common, which allows the human-set fires to spread faster and farther. Scientists worry that deforestation has reached a tipping point that will turn the entire rainforest into a vast grassland.
D. The demand for lumber has cleared much of the forests in Southeast Asia. But vast rainforests are still being burned yearly to make way for agriculture, particularly huge palm oil plantations. And like South America, the heavy smoke is cutting many lives short.