The impact of smoke from the bushfires on people's health

The NSW environment department says this season's bushfire emergency has caused "some of the highest air pollution ever seen in NSW". What does this pollution mean for people's health?

Commuter ferries sail past the Sydney Harbour Bridge as smoke haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets the CBD in Sydney, Monday, December 2, 2019. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore) NO ARCHIVING

Commuter ferries sail past the Sydney Harbour Bridge as smoke haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets the CBD. Source: AAP

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Published 5 December 2019 4:57pm
By Chiara Pazzano


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