Water: A Precious Resource for Life on Earth, Part 1 of 216:55Water: A Precious Resource for Life on Earth, Part 1 of 2"Every year, on the 22nd of March, the world comes together to help create water awareness. Everyone, from our world leaders to children in primary schools, join the fight against the abuse, pollution, and over exploitation of our precious water resources." Fresh water is the resource that all of us must share to meet many of our daily needs. We need fresh water for drinking, cooking, personal hygPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-03-22 2510 Views78396p720p720pHQ2021-03-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 3 of 314:59Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 3 of 3On today’s program we’ll explore how ocean warming is also contributing to extreme weather events. Warmer waters in both the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean have spawned some of the strongest storms on the planet. The warmer the water, the more chaotic and extreme the weather event will be. Supreme Master Ching Hai also told this in the conference, which took place in Orizaba on November 16, 200Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-03-08 988 Views8396p720p720pHQ2021-03-08Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 2 of 317:40Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 2 of 3In today’s program, we’ll discover how ocean warming is also adversely affecting marine life. One serious threat is the occurrence of marine heatwaves. “When marine heatwaves occur, they affect the biology (of the ocean) in a range of ways. Species change the location in the way where they live, and so for example, in Western Australia, many unusual species were pushed further south by the warm waPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-03-01 1276 Views20396p720p720pHQ2021-03-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 1 of 317:03Ocean Warming: A Call to End the Climate Crisis, Part 1 of 3Today the planet is facing critical climate challenges due to human activities that are detrimental to the environment and our animal co-inhabitants. Raising animal livestock is recognized as a leading cause of human-driven greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and air and water pollution. Ocean warming is accelerating due to excessive amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that prevent Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-02-22 1341 Views15396p720p720pHQ2021-02-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Deb Ozarko (vegan): Is Our World Beyond Hope? Part 2 of 215:14Deb Ozarko (vegan): Is Our World Beyond Hope? Part 2 of 2More recently, Deb had another experience that finally prompted her to write the book, “Beyond Hope,” and thus raise awareness about the critical condition of our planet. “I had a prompt when I was living out in British Columbia (Canada) in 2016. I started having premonitions. That’s what I’m calling them. But I had really vivid dreams, and these vivid dreams were all about the death of the ocean.Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-02-16 1362 Views12396p720p720pHQ2021-02-16Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Deb Ozarko (vegan): Is Our World Beyond Hope? Part 1 of 215:38Deb Ozarko (vegan): Is Our World Beyond Hope? Part 1 of 2Ms. Deb Ozarko of Ontario, Canada is the author of “Unplug” and “Beyond Hope: Letting Go of a World in Collapse.” She is also a graphic designer, the creator and host of the Unplug podcast, an “unapologetic vegan,” and an Ironman triathlon competitor. In her latest book, “Beyond Hope,” Deb writes that between climate change, widespread pollution, mass plant and wildlife extinctions, global overpopPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2021-02-09 1783 Views19396p720p720pHQ2021-02-09Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather: The Latest Global Climate Disasters, Part 2 of 215:09Extreme Weather: The Latest Global Climate Disasters, Part 2 of 2On today’s program, we’ll travel to Asia and Europe to learn how these continents have been affected by severe weather events lately. In China, torrential rains during the summer of 2020 caused dangerous flooding in several major river basins, especially around the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. The number of floods in China this year was 60% higher than in previous years, and 77 of the nation’s riverPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-28 1704 Views20396p720p720pHQ2020-12-28Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather: The Latest Global Climate Disasters, Part 1 of 218:17Extreme Weather: The Latest Global Climate Disasters, Part 1 of 2This year in Africa, more than 1.21 million people in 12 different countries were affected by heavy rainfall and flooding. The following is a summary of the floods’ consequences in Africa between June and October 2020. Floods in Democratic Republic of Congo had resulted in at least 15 fatalities and thousands of people were affected. Floods in Tunisia, Ghana, Uganda and Burkina Faso had causPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-21 1737 Views17396p720p720pHQ2020-12-21Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 3 of 314:33Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 3 of 3When Edith and Mike first changed from operating a beef operation to running an animal sanctuary, they knew they would face many challenges. But they also knew deep in their hearts that it was the right thing to do. "I think for him (Mike), once he made the decision that he didn’t want to slaughter the animals anymore, it was just, 'That’s it.' He couldn’t do it anymore. We knew we were going to fPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-14 1101 Views24396p720p720pHQ2020-12-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 2 of 311:43Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we’ll learn more about Farmhouse Garden Animal Home. The mission of the sanctuary is “to provide a safe home for the animals in [their] care, as well as to show others that farm animals deserve love and compassion.” When Edith and Mike first transitioned from beef farming to running a sanctuary, they wondered about the best way to accomplish the change. "So when we first becamePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-07 1104 Views18396p720p720pHQ2020-12-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 1 of 312:04Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 1 of 3On today’s program, we’ll travel to Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada to visit Farmhouse Garden Animal Home, an animal sanctuary co-founded in 2016 by Michael Lanigan and Edith Barabash. For many years, Mr. Lanigan had been a fulltime farmer, earning his income by growing organic vegetables and raising beef cattle for slaughter. Although he did not like having his animals butchered, he did not know what ePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-30 1455 Views20396p720p720pHQ2020-11-30Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 3 of 314:04Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 3 of 3Mr. Guttman describes how he was able to achieve his dreams by incorporating minimalism into his life, and how ecofriendly travel is attainable by the ordinary person. "You know, now I just have my bicycle, a few bags, and it's my whole life. I’m traveling on my own money. Some ask how I get the money to do it. Some say you have to have a lot of money. Or you won the lottery. Or you have to be ricPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-07 2562 Views12396p720p720pHQ2020-11-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 2 of 313:20Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 2 of 3Our special guest on today’s program, Sebastian Guttman, is an environmentalist and vegan athlete from Germany who has chosen to use a zero-emissions form of travel with his selfmade bamboo bicycle. A champion of sustainable travel, Mr. Guttman has traveled to approximately 30 countries over the past two-and-a-half years, and plans to pause his bicycle tour during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I would hPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-02 1496 Views16396p720p720pHQ2020-11-02Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 1 of 312:45Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 1 of 3In 2019, a record number of people traveled internationally, 1.5 billion, to be exact. However, conventional mass travel has been shown to be unsustainable and actually has many hidden, deeply intertwined costs for both tourist destinations and our planet. The good news is that over the past decade trends in travel have been changing considerably. As the world becomes more aware of the threats thaPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-26 1495 Views15396p720p720pHQ2020-10-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 3 of 314:22Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 3 of 3In late May 2020, a 23-square-kilometer horde of locusts entered Argentina after passing through Paraguay. The insects landed first in the provinces of Santa Fé and Formosa, both of which are essential for agriculture. Millions invaded cities and farms, devouring all the crops in the area in a matter of hours. The locusts were enormous; technicians from the Argentine government measured specimens Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-19 1631 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-10-19Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 2 of 312:45Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we’ll travel to Pakistan and India to learn how the insects have affected these countries. But first, let’s find out more about locusts, and why they’ve been so plentiful during the past year. Many scientists believe that climate change is largely responsible for the current locust plague. The unusually warm, wet weather in the normally arid areas around the Arabian Peninsula hPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-12 1537 Views22396p720p720pHQ2020-10-12Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 1 of 313:02Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 1 of 3On today’s program we’ll travel to Africa to learn about the recent massive invasion of locusts that the continent has experienced. The plague began in June 2019 and has continued through 2020. Billions of desert locusts, resembling dark storm clouds, have descended on the Horn of Africa, destroying vast areas of cropland and vegetation. Dr. Rick Overson of Arizona State University's Global LocustPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-05 1673 Views25396p720p720pHQ2020-10-05Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 3 of 315:16Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 3 of 3On today’s program, we’ll look at some of the solutions emerging all around the globe. According to a 2019 study published in the journal Science Progress, as many as 90% of all plastic items are used only once and then discarded. Plastic bags are among the biggest sources of pollution, with as many as five trillion being consumed globally each year. When disposed of improperly, the bags clog watePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-09-14 2281 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-09-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 2 of 314:46Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we continue our exploration, as we travel to Africa to visit the magnificent River Nile. This 6,650-kilometer-long waterway runs through 11 countries on the African continent, and an estimated 250 million people rely on it for drinking water, household use, and irrigation. In June 2020, the British free-to-air television news channel Sky News aired a remarkable documentary callPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-09-07 4233 Views22396p720p720pHQ2020-09-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 1 of 314:53Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 1 of 3On today’s program, we’ll examine the global issue of plastic pollution and learn how the problem began. The production of plastic is relatively new; the first manufacture only began during the 1940’s. Over the ensuing decades, we have become increasingly reliant on plastic in many aspects of our lives. If we look around us, we’ll see that we’re surrounded by plastic. Since the development of plasPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-31 3332 Views20396p720p720pHQ2020-08-31Planet Earth: Our Loving Home