Fires Ravaging Amazon Rain Forest
Brazil May Send Its Army In to Combat the Amazon Fires Source: Amazon Burning Global Environmental Concern About the "Lungs of the World" It's mind boggling and clearly an international crisis. The Amazon Rain Forest, which is the world's largest, is engulfed in raging fires. In Brazil alone, there have been 74,000 fires in the Amazon this year. The Amazon Rain Forest covers parts of nine countries, but Brazil is key. Importantly, the Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen on Earth. The situation is so severe that French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for it to be included on the agenda at the G-7 Meeting in Biarritz. The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, whose environmental policies are under attack, has just announced he may call in the Brazilian Army to fight the unprecedented fires in the Amazon, which is known as "the lungs of the world." Fires Sending Smoke 2,000 Miles Away The fires are so extensive that smoke extends 2000 miles a