Amazon to Alaska: a World on Fire __on Ecoshock
ECOSHOCK —Amazon to Alaska: a World on Fire
experts explain the fires and the climate behind them From the Amazon to Alaska, forests burned this summer. Dr. Thomas Lovejoy leads us into the recent burst of fires in the Amazon. We also get a report from Brazilian scientists. From the University of Alaska, Brian Brettschneider reports on crazy high temperatures up north, the smoke, and the prospects of wildfires from the Boreal forest right up into the Tundra. Sorry, it’s more bad news from the real world – here on Radio Ecoshock.
Featured speakers: Thomas Lovejoy, Brian Brettschneider. Interviews and music by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock. I also report from a webinar hosted by the Woods Hole Research Center with American scientist Dr. Michael Coe, and Brazilians scientists Ane Alencar and Paul Brando.
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This show was broadcast on September 13, 2019.
