The 2019 Amazon Rainforest Fire

On Friday the BBC reported that over 2,500 fires were happening in the Amazon Rainforest right now. Nearly a soccer field of forest is falling every single minute in what's being called the worst fire in the Amazon since 2013. As of today there the Amazon Rainforest is burning at a rate 83% higher than it was this time last year. In this episode, Environmental Engineering expert and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Joe Bozeman III joins us for a conversation on the Amazon Rainforest fires and the implications this has on the ecological crisis.