#  Amazon blazes could speed climate change 

 





August 28, 2019

 

 

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Brian discusses the Amazon's fire crisis with Colleen Walsh of The Harvard Gazette:

> "But the very fact that we could reach the tipping point *this year* should be enough to focus world attention on this crisis, just as if an asteroid were headed toward Earth. Where it lands is not the concern only of the country impacted, but everyone on the planet. The Amazon fire is like that, a local problem of global significance."

Read the story [in the Gazette.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/08/harvard-biologist-discusses-the-environmental-impact-of-the-amazon-fires/)



 

 

 



 

 

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