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 morePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-11-14 834 Views19396p720p1080p2022-11-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-11-07 793 Views16396p720p1080p2022-11-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 infrastructurePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-10-31 854 Views19396p720p1080p2022-10-31Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-10-24 964 Views23396p720p1080p2022-10-24Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 problemsPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-10-10 860 Views9396p720p1080p2022-10-10Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 emissioPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-10-04 1015 Views23396p720p1080p2022-10-04Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 tPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-09-26 768 Views10396p720p1080p2022-09-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 gePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-09-19 1054 Views21396p720p1080p2022-09-19Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-09-12 1388 Views22396p720p1080p2022-09-12Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 201Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-09-05 1430 Views29396p720p1080p2022-09-05Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 resPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-08-22 1456 Views21396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Ozone Layer: Earth’s Invisible Shield of Protection16:12The Ozone Layer: Earth’s Invisible Shield of ProtectionenPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-08-15 1199 Views19396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-15Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Regenerative Farming: Restoring the Soil and Saving the Planet, Part 2 of 214:40Regenerative Farming: Restoring the Soil and Saving the Planet, Part 2 of 2On today’s program we’ll learn that regenerative farming could play an even more critical role. Many scientists now estimate that we could reduce or even halt climate change by regenerating the planet's soil. Healthy soil has an immense capacity to sequester and store carbon. In fact, it’s estimated that Earth’s soil contains three times more carbon than the atmosphere.Conventional farming, with iPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-08-08 1061 Views15396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-08Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Regenerative Farming: Restoring the Soil and Saving the Planet, Part 1 of 216:34Regenerative Farming: Restoring the Soil and Saving the Planet, Part 1 of 2Soil is one of the foundations of life on Earth, and a key part of our global food system. Healthy soil produces nutritious food, absorbs rainwater, minimizes flooding, and reduces erosion. Soil also holds and filters water, purifying rivers and streams. In addition, healthy soil can sequester vast amounts of CO2. Healthy soil teems with life forms, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, nemaPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-08-01 1376 Views21396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Humanity’s Destructive Ways are Causing the Sixth Mass Extinction16:21Humanity’s Destructive Ways are Causing the Sixth Mass ExtinctionOur beautiful Earth houses approximately eight million species of animal-people friends and plants that live with us. Ecological studies show that over 40,000 species are already on the way to extinction. As the loss of our lovely animal-people friends continues at an alarming rate, this devastating trend poses a colossal threat to everyone on the planet. The decline of various life forms is happePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-07-25 2467 Views43396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-07-25Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Ocean Ecosystem: Its Significance for Our Planet13:31The Ocean Ecosystem: Its Significance for Our PlanetThe oceans are known as the heart of our blue planet because their water covers more than two-thirds of the earth’s surface, and is responsible for producing 70% of the oxygen in our atmosphere. A close connection exists between climate change and the ocean. Marine ecosystems are saltwater environments defined by their unique biotic factors such as plants, people of the marine kingdom, and microbePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-06-20 1699 Views35396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-06-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Intensity and Unpredictability of Storms due to Climate Change19:46The Intensity and Unpredictability of Storms due to Climate ChangeThe increasing intensity of hurricanes, also known as typhoons or tropical cyclones, is the result of rising global temperatures caused by human-made greenhouse gas emissions. These storms are becoming more severe and destructive. Scientists tell us that as the Atlantic Ocean continues to warm, the changes in its surface temperature are fueling extreme storm activity.Dr. James P. Kossin, a climatePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-06-13 1188 Views21396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-06-13Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Animal-People Livestock Industry: A Hazard to Our Planet and Our Health, Part 2 of 215:05The Animal-People Livestock Industry: A Hazard to Our Planet and Our Health, Part 2 of 2Statistical data from a network of NGOs, universities, and other mapping sources shows that in 2020 84,925 hectares (209,854 acres) was deforested in Acre, a state in northwestern Brazil. The loss of the forestland was strongly correlated with the cattle-people livestock. In 2013 another study, reported in; the journal Tropical Conservation Science, states that “48% of all tropical rainforest lossPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-05-30 1178 Views15396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-05-30Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Animal-People Livestock Industry: A Hazard to Our Planet and Our Health, Part 1 of 217:07The Animal-People Livestock Industry: A Hazard to Our Planet and Our Health, Part 1 of 2On today’s show, we’ll take a look at our food choices and learn about how the dishes we prepare impact our health and Earth’s environment. In one such study, scientists from Oxford University examined the environmental impact of 40 major food products. Their findings, published in a 2018 issue of the journal Science, showed that “cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an indiPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-05-23 1399 Views33396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-05-23Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Protecting All Animal-People: Interview with Stephanie Maw (vegan), Humane Society International, Part 2 of 214:54Protecting All Animal-People: Interview with Stephanie Maw (vegan), Humane Society International, Part 2 of 2On today’s program we continue our discussion with Stephanie Maw, Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer at Humane Society International (HSI), a global animal-people welfare organization. Stephanie discusses how raising livestock for meat consumption is causing many of the problems facing Earth today. “If you look at the numbers and the science, we know it's the second-largest emitter of greenhousePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-05-02 882 Views14396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-05-02Planet Earth: Our Loving Home