The United Nations Final Warning on Climate Change: Act Now Before It’s Too Late, Part 1 of 239:36The United Nations Final Warning on Climate Change: Act Now Before It’s Too Late, Part 1 of 2On today’s program, we’ll look at some of the IPCC’s 2023 Synthesis Report findings and learn why the UN is warning us that the climate “time bomb” is ticking. One of the Report’s most concerning findings regards the warming that has already occurred. The average global temperature is 1.1 degrees Celsius, higher than pre-industrial levels, and the world is warmer than at any other time in the pastPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-07-17 888 Views40396p720p1080p2023-07-17Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Earth's Water Cycle is Changing22:13Earth's Water Cycle is ChangingOn today's program, we’ll examine Earth's water cycle and how its changes are impacting our world. According to recent climate models, Earth's water cycle could intensify by up to seven percent for every degree Celsius of global warming that occurs. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that climate change will continue to cause long-term alterations in the water cycle if steps are noPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-07-10 620 Views34396p720p1080p2023-07-10Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry, Part 2 of 221:35The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry, Part 2 of 2On today’s program, we’ll look at the other harmful environmental effects of the fishing industry. First, let’s consider plastic pollution. Today, most of the fishing industry’s nets, lines, and other fishing gear are made of plastic, and every year a significant amount of this equipment is lost or abandoned in the ocean. This waste material is a threat to all marine life. If left unchecked, oceanPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-07-03 273 Views31396p720p1080p2023-07-03Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry, Part 1 of 223:09The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry, Part 1 of 2On today’s program, we’ll look at some of the many ways in which this immense fishing industry is destroying the environment. One of the first problems is over-fishing. The removal of large numbers of fish-people species disturbs the natural food web, causing other fish- and bird-persons to starve to death. In addition, drastic reductions in the number of fish-people cause a loss of genetic diversPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-06-26 337 Views28396p720p1080p2023-06-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Hazardous Effects of Air Pollution on People Around the World, Part 2 of 216:07The Hazardous Effects of Air Pollution on People Around the World, Part 2 of 2On today's program, we’ll cover the most significant contributors to air pollution, its effects on our health, and how we can reduce the problem. The burning of fossil fuels is among the largest contributors to air pollution. Ozone, another harmful contaminant, is also a driver of air pollution. Extreme climate events, including dust storms, heatwaves, wildfires, and changing weather conditions arPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-06-19 371 Views31396p720p1080p2023-06-19Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Hazardous Effects of Air Pollution on People Around the World, Part 1 of 213:03The Hazardous Effects of Air Pollution on People Around the World, Part 1 of 2On today’s program we’ll cover air pollution around the world, its effects on human health, and what we can do to reduce the problem. The world is facing a severe air pollution problem, with less than 1% of the Earth’s population breathing air that is considered acceptable. Globally, more than 10 million people die each year from conditions caused by various types of air pollution. “There are two Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-06-12 436 Views28396p720p1080p2023-06-12Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Growing Your Own Vegetables, Part 2 of 225:19Growing Your Own Vegetables, Part 2 of 2On today’s program, we’ll share methods to grow your favorite foods with little or no garden space.“It’s fun to grow your own vegetables! Even growing salad on the balcony is plenty for you to eat. You don’t eat salads every day, so you just grow some, and then it lasts you at least a week or a month. And then you plant another one. Take turns like that, and you will always have something to eat. Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-05-29 825 Views44396p720p1080p2023-05-29Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Growing Your Own Vegetables, Part 1 of 222:30Growing Your Own Vegetables, Part 1 of 2“Instead of spending your time thinking nonsense sometimes, or feeling sad about something, just go and plant a pot of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Spend your energy on something conducive, and then you’ll feel happy. We are made from earth and water anyway. So, if you are in contact with earth and water, that also makes you feel like you are in your element. You naturally feel happy.”While wePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-05-22 1227 Views69396p720p1080p2023-05-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Fast Fashion and Its Impact on Our Environment, Part 2 of 217:11Fast Fashion and Its Impact on Our Environment, Part 2 of 2On today’s program, we’ll explore other negative effects of fashion and what we can do to prevent them. Fashion is a thirsty industry. It consumes a huge amount of freshwater for cotton production, dyeing, and finishing clothes while many regions of the world are facing water crises. Garment manufacturing requires the heavy use of chemicals for fiber production, dyeing, bleaching, and wet processiPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-05-15 570 Views38396p720p1080p2023-05-15Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Fast Fashion and Its Impact on Our Environment, Part 1 of 220:29Fast Fashion and Its Impact on Our Environment, Part 1 of 2On today’s program, we’ll explore fast fashion and its impact on the world’s environment. Consistent with their name, fast fashion garments are designed quickly, mass-produced, and transported rapidly to stores to keep up with new trends. The pollution, waste, and emissions of fast fashion have serious consequences for our planet. We produce 100 billion garments each year. That means 400% more cloPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-05-08 565 Views39396p720p1080p2023-05-08Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Food Shortages: A Global Crisis, Part 2 of 231:25Food Shortages: A Global Crisis, Part 2 of 2After being hit by frequent natural disasters in recent years the Central American Dry Corridor has become one of the world’s worst climate and hunger hotspots. Periodic droughts, hurricanes, and the El Nino-southern oscillation phenomenon have damaged crops, leading to much smaller harvests that are far short of what is needed to feed the population of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and NicaraPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-05-01 493 Views29396p720p1080p2023-05-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Food Shortages: A Global Crisis, Part 1 of 233:26Food Shortages: A Global Crisis, Part 1 of 2Our Mother Earth can supply more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet, but we’re facing a global food crisis. The World Food Programme (WFP) says, “2022 is a year of unprecedented hunger.” As many as 828 million people go to bed with empty stomachs every night. From 2019 to 2022, the number of people facing acute food insecurity grew from 135 million to 345 million. The world is hungriePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-04-24 670 Views40396p720p1080p2023-04-24Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Winter Storms: Effects of Climate Change, Part 2 of 220:34Winter Storms: Effects of Climate Change, Part 2 of 2Last week, we learned about the massive winter storm that became a bomb cyclone raging across the US and parts of Canada. It’s known that the world is interconnected in one way or another; therefore, extreme weather events powered by climate change will eventually be felt by Earth’s residents living in other areas.On December 29, 2022, it was announced on the news that a “wall of snow as big as BrPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-04-17 369 Views27396p720p1080p2023-04-17Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Winter Storms: Effects of Climate Change, Part 1 of 222:23Winter Storms: Effects of Climate Change, Part 1 of 2“This morning, a Christmas Eve arctic blast is pummeling the eastern U.S. Buffalo battered with a historic blizzard, wind gusts exceeding 70 miles per hour, causing whiteout conditions. (There's cars about 35-40 feet away. You can barely see them.) Knocking out power.” On December 23, 2022, it was reported that a gigantic cross-country winter storm, dubbed Elliot, with massive intensity was reportPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-04-10 387 Views15396p720p1080p2023-04-10Planet Earth: Our Loving Home The Global Water Crisis, Part 2 of 220:34The Global Water Crisis, Part 2 of 2In part 1 we explored water scarcity in Europe and Asia. As the drought persists across the globe, we continue on today’s program by highlighting the water crisis happening in North, Central, and South America and Africa.In the west of the United States, water is the new gold, the most sought-after commodity. For states like Utah and Wyoming, for Arizona, California, for Nevada, New Mexico, and coPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-03-27 551 Views23396p720p1080p2023-03-27Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Minerals and Gemstones: Treasures from the Earth and Beyond15:04Minerals and Gemstones: Treasures from the Earth and BeyondMinerals and gemstones are prized resources of planet Earth and for millennia, they have been part of human society. Gemstones encompass a wide variety of minerals and rocks that have long been recognized and valued by humans for their exceptional qualities. Apart from their geological value, gemstones also carry aesthetic and economic value. For centuries the possession of certain gems has been sPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-03-23 752 Views32396p720p1080p2023-03-23Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 lePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-03-20 1007 Views38396p720p1080p2023-03-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-02-20 512 Views20396p720p1080p2023-02-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 sigPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-02-13 693 Views16396p720p1080p2023-02-13Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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, coaPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-01-23 482 Views13396p720p1080p2023-01-23Planet Earth: Our Loving Home