Exploring Some Fascinating Facts about Mother Earth25:28Exploring Some Fascinating Facts about Mother EarthAccording to the National Center for Science Education, they think Earth is about 4.54 billion years old! Earth went through a lot, even some scary stuff like mass extinctions. We humans? We're like the newest guests at Mother Earth's party, only showing up around 300,000 years ago. And Earth might’ve had two moons once! Even though we humans have only explored about 42% of Mother Earth’s land andPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-04-15 212 Views40396p720p1080p2024-04-15Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecosystem Calamity: Climate Change and Pollution Threaten Biodiversity and Wildlife, Part 1 of a Multi-part Series21:26Ecosystem Calamity: Climate Change and Pollution Threaten Biodiversity and Wildlife, Part 1 of a Multi-part SeriesIn September and October 2023, the Amazon witnessed thick layers of smoke blanketing the region, a result of rampant wildfires exacerbated by severe drought. During the first two weeks of November 2023, a staggering 2,387 fires ravaged the Amazon region, which were attributed to extreme drought conditions. The fire sweeping through Brazil's rainforests represents a major threat to local wildlife.Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-04-08 377 Views29396p720p1080p2024-04-08Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Jamie Berger (vegan) and “The Smell of Money”: Revealing the Devastating Impact of the Pig-People Meat Industry, Part 2 of 220:48Jamie Berger (vegan) and “The Smell of Money”: Revealing the Devastating Impact of the Pig-People Meat Industry, Part 2 of 2“The Smell of Money,” directed and co-produced by Shawn Bannon (vegan) and written and co-produced by Jamie Berger (vegan), is a documentary film portraying the widespread destruction caused by pig-people Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in North Carolina, USA. “I have seen this stream filled with feces and urine from this hog operation right up here more than one time.” “Almost everPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-04-01 276 Views38396p720p1080p2024-04-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Jamie Berger (vegan) and “The Smell of Money”: Revealing the Devastating Impact of the Pig-People Meat Industry, Part 1 of 220:21Jamie Berger (vegan) and “The Smell of Money”: Revealing the Devastating Impact of the Pig-People Meat Industry, Part 1 of 2North Carolina, USA, is an epicenter for the pig-people meat industry. Almost 10 million pig-folk are produced yearly in the state, and they outnumber humans by a ratio of 35:1. The pig-people are being raised under filthy, crowded conditions in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). “The Smell of Money” is a documentary film that follows a small community’s fight against the destructionPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-03-25 347 Views22396p720p1080p2024-03-25Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate in Crisis: Mother Nature’s Urgent Warnings and Escalating Disasters, Part 2 of a Multi-part Series25:35Climate in Crisis: Mother Nature’s Urgent Warnings and Escalating Disasters, Part 2 of a Multi-part SeriesToday, let’s look at some of the droughts in South, Central, and North America and learn about their effects. One of the most concerning droughts is in the Amazon River basin in South America. Food and drink, even transport. But it's experienced its worst drought on record. Its rivers, lakes, and streams drying up. “We have never had this drought with this proportion before. We have never seen it.Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-03-18 379 Views34396p720p1080p2024-03-18Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate in Crisis: Mother Nature’s Urgent Warnings and Escalating Disasters, Part 1 of a Multi-part Series27:09Climate in Crisis: Mother Nature’s Urgent Warnings and Escalating Disasters, Part 1 of a Multi-part SeriesThe summer of 2023 was the hottest on record. According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the month of July 2023 was confirmed as the hottest month ever recorded, shattering every other past record. Well, experts say that the pressure on world leaders to curb planet heating greenhouse gas pollution has never been more urgent. According to the 2023 annual report released byPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-03-11 343 Views22396p720p1080p2024-03-11Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Photosynthesis: A Life-Sustaining Process Threatened by Climate Change21:37Photosynthesis: A Life-Sustaining Process Threatened by Climate ChangePhotosynthesis not only sustains life as we know it on Earth but also helps regulate and control extreme climate patterns resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, thanks to plants’ remarkable ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, climate change has led to an increased warming of the Earth, posing a severe threat to plants and forested areas. Rising temperatures have limited the efficienPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-03-04 363 Views32396p720p1080p2024-03-04Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Rising Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Part 2 of 227:57Rising Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Part 2 of 2A new type of virus has been detected in Peru. It’s a never-before-seen virus that causes illnesses similar to dengue fever, malaria, and other tropical infectious diseases. Another type of zoonotic disease with an approximately 35 percent mortality rate, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), has emerged. This type of coronavirus recently killed two out of three diagnosed cases iPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-02-05 421 Views24396p720p1080p2024-02-05Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Rising Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Part 1 of 224:47Rising Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Part 1 of 2It’s been noted that COVID-19 cases have recently surged in several countries, often presenting with mild symptoms. However, research indicates that even ‘mild’ cases of COVID-19 can have lasting detrimental effects on heart health. MRI scans have revealed abnormal findings in the lungs, brain, and kidneys of COVID-19 patients compared to a group of people without the virus. Researchers have foundPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-01-29 484 Views29396p720p1080p2024-01-29Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Turbulence in the Skies: How Climate Change is Making Flying Bumpier22:46Turbulence in the Skies: How Climate Change is Making Flying BumpierFlights are getting bumpier, according to a new analysis of turbulence over the past four decades. A trend that scientists say is caused by a warming climate.Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-01-22 281 Views20396p720p1080p2024-01-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Worldwide Protests: Citizens Urging Action on Environmental Pollution, Part 2 of a Multi-part Series23:12Worldwide Protests: Citizens Urging Action on Environmental Pollution, Part 2 of a Multi-part SeriesWith more than 17% of the Amazon forests lost and an additional 17% degraded, scientists fear that we’re approaching a tipping point. “Until just a couple of years ago, all of this was pristine Amazon rainforest but hundreds of gold miners were given concessions here turning this into a vast desert that stretches from mile after mile.” The deforestation of the Amazon has had a profound impact notPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-01-15 353 Views24396p720p1080p2024-01-15Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Airborne Contamination: The Presence of Plastic Particles in Our Atmosphere18:05Airborne Contamination: The Presence of Plastic Particles in Our AtmosphereWhen waves are breaking they create these mists but they're actually transferring microplastics from the ocean into the air that we're breathing. By analyzing air samples from two Auckland locations, Dr. Joel Rindelaub's team of researchers calculated that 74 metric tons of microplastics drop over the city each year.Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-01-08 274 Views20396p720p1080p2024-01-08Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Worldwide Protests: Citizens Urging Action on Environmental Pollution, Part 1 of a Multi-part Series24:43Worldwide Protests: Citizens Urging Action on Environmental Pollution, Part 1 of a Multi-part SeriesEnvironmental pollution, one of the modern world’s most pressing challenges, has been on the rise in recent decades, and is having a serious impact on living organisms, including humans. Long-term exposure to air pollution is estimated to have contributed to over 1.67 million annual deaths in India. The State of Global Air 2020 report found that air pollution caused more than 116,000 deaths in IndPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2024-01-01 466 Views29396p720p1080p2024-01-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 5 of a Multi-part Series25:50Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 5 of a Multi-part SeriesIn recent months, many mothers have become involved in climate change activism. On May 13, 2023, the day before Mother's Day, a global event called the “Mother’s Rebellion for the Climate” occurred. Organized by the global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion, the Mother’s Rebellion took place in 54 cities across all six continents. The Marches’ motto was, “We will never look away. We willPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-12-18 456 Views27396p720p1080p2023-12-18Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Troubled Waters: The Gulf Stream’s Vulnerability to Climate Change25:54Troubled Waters: The Gulf Stream’s Vulnerability to Climate ChangeToday we’ll examine how climate change and rising global temperatures are having a critical effect on our precious planet Earth’s ocean circulation system. “New research has zoomed in on the North Atlantic circulation, which transports heat from the tropics to Europe. Already, the system of currents called AMOC have slowed by 15% and now at their weakest in more than a millennium. But melting icePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-12-11 493 Views26396p720p1080p2023-12-11Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 4 of a Multi-part Series29:41Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 4 of a Multi-part SeriesOn today’s program, we’ll learn about other individuals and groups who, because of the dire urgency of the situation, have also taken to the streets to raise public awareness about global warming. One group that has recently joined the rallies is the senior citizen community. “I’m here for my grandchildren and all the children around the world. I am extremely concerned about the harm being done toPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-12-04 645 Views39396p720p1080p2023-12-04Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 4 of 443:10Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 4 of 4On today’s program, we’ll highlight the impact of climate change on the oceans, forests, and our co-inhabitants. With global temperatures steadily rising, the world’s ice continues to melt much more quickly than expected this year. “Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic ice has already decreased dramatically from a high of more than 7 million square kilometers to just over 4Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-11-30 525 Views21396p720p1080p2023-11-30Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 3 of 440:30Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 3 of 4This year, the entire world has been experiencing rising temperatures, with even Antarctica witnessing its most intense heat wave ever recorded. European health researchers found last week over 61,000 Europeans were killed by extreme heat last summer. Greece, Spain, there are wildfires in Italy, France, and now here in Switzerland. Meanwhile, in Maricopa County, Arizona, the Arizona Department ofPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-11-27 612 Views46396p720p1080p2023-11-27Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 2 of 441:14Our Fragile Planet: 2023’s Wake-Up Call, Part 2 of 4Italy, Romania, and Georgia also got hit by deadly floods this year. Landslides and mudflows triggered by heavy rains left at least 13 and 29 dead in Italy and Georgia respectively. The 2023 tornado season in the United States has, unfortunately, led to at least 75 deaths, a figure three times higher than the toll in 2022. Looking at the devastation, one Mississippi resident said, “There's nothingPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-11-24 585 Views36396p720p1080p2023-11-24Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 3 of a Multi-part Series25:52Worldwide Rallies: Citizens Demanding Immediate Action to Halt Climate Change, Part 3 of a Multi-part SeriesThe United Nations (UN) continues to warn us about the dangerous, consequences of global warming. Many youths are taking to the streets, protesting the fact that government leaders are taking insufficient action to halt climate change.In July 2023, torrential rains fell on Korea, causing devastating flash floods and landslides. Deeply concerned about the nation’s many weather-related disastPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-11-20 455 Views29396p720p1080p2023-11-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home