The Global Water Crisis, Part 1 of 220:21The Global Water Crisis, Part 1 of 2On today’s program, we’ll highlight the current water crisis occurring around the world. “Europe’s rivers are disappearing. Italy’s Po is yet another casualty of the severe drought gripping much of the continent. The river would normally be teeming with tourists; instead its drying bed is littered with empty boats.”In many places, ancient “hunger stones” have been uncovered as the river's water lePlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-03-20 122 vizionări9396p720p1080p2023-03-20Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă How Climate Change Increases the Risk of Infectious Diseases, Part 2 of 220:15How Climate Change Increases the Risk of Infectious Diseases, Part 2 of 2On today’s program, we’ll learn about other ways global warming increases the risk of infectious diseases. First, let’s look at how climate change is increasing vector-borne diseases; that is, diseases carried by infected insects and transmitted into the blood of humans. A 2008 study published in the journal Nature stated that almost one-third of the emerging infectious diseases over the past ten Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-02-20 197 vizionări14396p720p1080p2023-02-20Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă How Climate Change Increases the Risk of Infectious Diseases, Part 1 of 217:24How Climate Change Increases the Risk of Infectious Diseases, Part 1 of 2“Our climate is in crisis, our health is at stake.” “A tragedy is unfolding.” “The gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere affects extreme weather like droughts and hurricanes but did you know these types of natural disasters can play a role in disease spread and pandemic.” In another study published in the April 2022 issue of the journal Nature scientists warn that global warming could also sigPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-02-13 405 vizionări11396p720p1080p2023-02-13Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Mangroves: Protecting our Coasts and Sheltering the Local Inhabitants16:26Mangroves: Protecting our Coasts and Sheltering the Local InhabitantsDid you know that Earth is home to a special type of tree known as the Mangrove? Mangroves play an important role in their natural surroundings by protecting the health and welfare of various types of animal-people and coastal communities worldwide. Apart from helping to enrich and protect ecosystems, mangroves are also known for aiding in the quest to combat climate change. Without mangroves, coaPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-01-23 278 vizionări12396p720p1080p2023-01-23Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 2 of 217:13Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 2 of 2The United Nations states that rising seas threaten 90 percent of the world’s megacities. In addition, approximately 40 percent of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast. As a result, hundreds of millions of people could be forced to flee their homes by 2050. Let’s now visit Bangladesh, one of the world’s most densely populated countries, where approximately 35 million citizens liPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-01-09 320 vizionări12396p720p1080p2023-01-09Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 1 of 216:45Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 1 of 2Since record-keeping began in the 1800s, the Earth’s average global sea level has consistently risen. Between the 1900s and the 2000s, the sea rose very slowly, an average of only 1.4 mm/year. However, between 2006 and 2015, the rate began accelerating, and now sea levels are rising more than twice as fast as before.Rising sea levels threaten many essential coastal infrastructures, including roadsPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2023-01-02 448 vizionări13396p720p1080p2023-01-02Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 2 of 216:45Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 2 of 2GHG emissions fuel climate change, which in turn causes extreme weather events and droughts to become more frequent and intense. These intense conditions are causing agricultural challenges for farmers, affecting food trade markets, and producing food scarcity crises. Many climate scientists are raising the alarm that due to climate change many food items may someday be literally wiped off of PlanPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-12-26 273 vizionări10396p720p1080p2022-12-26Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 1 of 216:40Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 1 of 2On today’s show, we’ll examine how food production and consumption play a major role in emitting GHGs and how this process affects our precious planet Earth.Various scientific studies have found that high levels of GHGs are emitted at every stage of the animal-people meat production process, resulting in a massive carbon footprint for every piece of animal-people flesh consumed. However, somethingPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-12-19 408 vizionări13396p720p1080p2022-12-19Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Forever Chemicals: What They Are and How They Affect Our Planet14:05Forever Chemicals: What They Are and How They Affect Our PlanetForever chemicals, scientifically known as per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances or PFAS, were introduced in the 1940s and have been used widely ever since. They don’t break down in the environment, can move through soils, contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in fish-people, wildlife, and even the human body.The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says exposure to PFASPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-12-12 351 vizionări13396p720p1080p2022-12-12Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 4 of 424:15Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 4 of 4On today’s program we’ll highlight recent major hurricanes. Hurricane Bonnie was the first major hurricane of the 2022 Eastern Pacific hurricane season. It began as a tropical storm and strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. Bonnie swept through Central America, leaving four deaths in Nicaragua and one in El Salvador. Tens of thousands of people across Nicaragua were left without power and morePlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-11-14 510 vizionări18396p720p1080p2022-11-14Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 3 of 420:41Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 3 of 4On today’s program, we’ll highlight 2022’s major unpredictable catastrophic events: earthquakes. Since 2000, earthquakes have caused 721,311 fatalities, more than three times those caused by the second deadliest disaster, storms, which have resulted in 201,485 deaths.Iranian state media reported that some 24 tremors, two with a magnitudes of 6.3 and 6.1, hit the village of Sayeh Khosh near Iran’s Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-11-07 461 vizionări15396p720p1080p2022-11-07Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 2 of 419:40Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 2 of 4On today’s program, we’ll continue highlighting the floods that occurred in other parts of the world in 2022. Pakistan’s neighbor countries India and Bangladesh have also been hit hard by unprecedented levels of flooding due to heavy rainfall this monsoon season. In the summer of 2022 floods and landslides from extreme rainfall and tropical storms also caused several deaths, damaged infrastructurePlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-10-31 530 vizionări19396p720p1080p2022-10-31Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 1 of 420:52Extreme Weather Events in 2022 Caused by Climate Change, Part 1 of 4In 2022 many parts of the world went through scorching summer days when the temperature hit record highs. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information report, the summer of 2022 was the hottest on record for Europe and China, the second-hottest for North America and Asia, and the fifth-hottest June-to-August period for planet Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-10-24 540 vizionări23396p720p1080p2022-10-24Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Dust and Sandstorms: Signs from Nature to End Animal-People Exploitation, Part 2 of 218:28Dust and Sandstorms: Signs from Nature to End Animal-People Exploitation, Part 2 of 2Recently, large, severe dust and sandstorms have been happening more frequently. In 2022, a series of dust storms and sandstorms have smothered many parts of the Middle East, including Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and other areas. This series of catastrophic events caused the air to become filled with unhealthy dust particles. Thousands have been sent to the hospital due to breathing problemsPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-10-10 513 vizionări9396p720p1080p2022-10-10Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Dust and Sandstorms: Signs from Nature to End Animal-People Exploitation, Part 1 of 218:54Dust and Sandstorms: Signs from Nature to End Animal-People Exploitation, Part 1 of 2On today’s show we’ll present a series of apocalyptic-type extreme weather occurrences that have become more frequent around the world. Due to ongoing desertification around the world, landscape erosion has led to increased soil and sand mobility, resulting in increased occurrences of dust storms and sandstorms. These occurrences are exacerbated by global greenhouse gases caused by methane emissioPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-10-04 603 vizionări19396p720p1080p2022-10-04Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution, Part 2 of 216:18The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution, Part 2 of 2However, the problem of plastic waste extends far beyond cities; it occurs even in the most remote places on Earth. Currently, the world produces twice as much of this waste annually than it did two decades ago. In addition, since its outbreak in late 2019, the global COVID-19 pandemic has caused even more waste to be produced. In a February 2022 report, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned that tPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-09-26 492 vizionări10396p720p1080p2022-09-26Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution, Part 1 of 215:01The Growing Problem of Plastic Pollution, Part 1 of 2Since the mid-1900s, humans have relied on plastic for a wide variety of uses. It’s cheap, versatile, lightweight, highly resilient, and can be used in many ways in everyday life. However, plastic has one major drawback: once manufactured, it does not decompose for approximately 1,000 years. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) states that during the early 2000s, more plastic waste was gePlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-09-19 595 vizionări17396p720p1080p2022-09-19Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă United Nations Reports: It’s Now or Never to Stop Climate Change, Part 2 of 219:13United Nations Reports: It’s Now or Never to Stop Climate Change, Part 2 of 2The Report states that “human-induced climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying.” Global temperatures are at the high end of what modellers had earlier predicted and are increasing more rapidly than estimated. Thus, the IPCC is calling for immediate and drastic cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, stating, “Limiting warming to around 1.5°C (2.7°F) requires global greenhouse gas emissions Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-09-12 962 vizionări18396p720p1080p2022-09-12Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă United Nations Reports: It’s Now or Never to Stop Climate Change, Part 1 of 218:15United Nations Reports: It’s Now or Never to Stop Climate Change, Part 1 of 2On April 4, 2022, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third installment of its comprehensive Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The April report provided updated information on global warming and global greenhouse gas emissions, as well as on the current progress in emission-mitigation efforts. And the results are alarming. The report shows that between 201Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-09-05 978 vizionări27396p720p1080p2022-09-05Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă Earth Overshoot Day14:45Earth Overshoot DayThe concept of “Earth Overshoot Day” was initiated by Andrew Simms while working at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation. On today's program we’ll explore what Earth Overshoot Day is and why we need to care about it.“Earth Overshoot Day is central to the science of sustainability. It’s when our demand for natural resources exceeds supply. It’s calculated by dividing the amount of natural resPlaneta pământ: casa noastră dragă2022-08-22 899 vizionări18396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-22Planeta pământ: casa noastră dragă