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Radio Ecoshock

Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: Fire Science That Burns - heat, cold and ozone. Will we have yet another record fire year in the West, in the Boreal Forest, in Europe and Russia? Explore little-known risks with new science. From VU Amsterdam, Max van Gerrevinke answers a hard question: are super-fires heating or cooling the planet? Then Professor Ben de Foy of Saint Louis University on ozone that burns lungs. Poking the inferno - to see what it’s made of. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org. [Repeats Monday 2pm.]

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