Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 3 of 313:18Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 3 of 3It is becoming increasingly clear that hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones around the world are becoming stronger and potentially more deadly as the planet warms due to the climate crisis. On May 20, 2020, it was reported that Amphan, the strongest cyclonic storm since the 2007 season, had made landfall along India’s east coast and in Bangladesh. With wind speeds gusting to more than 240 kPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-26 2559 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-08-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 2 of 312:51Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 2 of 3Apart from heatwaves and wildfires, climate change has also triggered many other extreme-weather events, including intense storms, floods, and blizzards. For example, a series of recent winter storms in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe led to severe downpours, floods, high tides, and other extreme weather events. The first storm, Atiyah, swept across the Republic of Ireland on DecemberPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-22 1858 Views9396p720p720pHQ2020-08-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 2 of 215:38Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 2 of 2Today we’ll further explore the causes, interconnections, and solutions for our planet’s public health and economic crises. In June 2020, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released a report entitled, “COVID-19: Urgent Call to Protect People and Nature,” urging governments, corporations, organizations, and the public to take action to restore our broken relationship with nature and thus avoid fuPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-17 2150 Views25396p720p720pHQ2020-08-17Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 1 of 313:46Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 1 of 3As various regions across the globe become hotter and drier, destructive wildfires have been growing in size, ferocity, and speed. Wildfires that caused severe destruction of ecosystems, homes, and other types of property in Australia, California, Siberia, and parts of Europe were featured on Supreme Master Television in March of this year. Unfortunately, the dismaying weather phenomena caused by Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-14 1921 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-08-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 1 of 212:34Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 1 of 2“Through COVID-19 the planet has delivered its strongest warning yet that we must change our ways. Human activity has altered virtually every part of the land. As we displace the natural world, we’re destroying vital ecosystems and the biodiversity that thrives on them. We are causing climate change, harming our ability to feed ourselves, opening the door to new illnesses such as COVID-19. It’s tiPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-10 8436 Views66396p720p720pHQ2020-08-10Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 3 of 316:36Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 3 of 3Today we’ll explore more about drought-induced conditions, this time in Asia and Australia. More than 66 million Southeast Asians have had their lives disrupted by drought in the past three decades. Severe drought and the construction of dams have driven the Mekong River to its lowest level in 100 years, endangering food supplies for tens of millions of people. In East Asia, a severe drought is plPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-27 1226 Views8396p720p720pHQ2020-07-27Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 2 of 314:11Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 2 of 3On today’s show, we’ll explore the severe drought conditions that are affecting Africa and Europe. Home to the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert, North Africa is one of the driest regions on Earth, where it's common to have no rainfall for more than a year in some places. However, for many years climate change has increased the lack of rain and abnormally hot weather across East Africa, SouthPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-20 1247 Views11396p720p720pHQ2020-07-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 1 of 313:16Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 1 of 3As the world warms, Earth’s climate has been undergoing intense heat waves caused by the increased chance of extremely hot days and nights. Warming air also boosts the evaporation of surface water, thus worsening the effects of droughts. More droughts create dry fields and forests that are prone to catching fire, so increased global temperatures mean longer wildfire seasons around the world. DrougPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-13 1468 Views18396p720p720pHQ2020-07-13Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 3 of 313:54Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 3 of 3The threat of future zoonoses or animal-transmitted diseases is even more concerning. Currently, over 72 billion land animals are slaughtered for human consumption every year. And what’s even more troubling is that many of these animals were raised on factory farms. For years, world health experts have warned about the dangers of factory farms as uncontrolled sources of new viruses. World organizaPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-06-01 1718 Views17396p720p720pHQ2020-06-01Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 2 of 317:30Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 2 of 3Over the past century, almost every pandemic has been a zoonoses. World authorities and organizations have become increasingly alarmed about the ever-increasing number of zoonotic diseases. The World Health Organization has also expressed concern, estimating that approximately one billion illnesses and millions of deaths occur each year from zoonoses, and that 60% of all existing infectious diseasPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-25 1825 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-05-25Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 1 of 317:31Pandemics: The Key to Prevention, Part 1 of 3In late December 2019, news of a strange new virus emerging in Southern China began to surface. The virus, it was reported, was highly contagious. The World Health Organization named it “coronavirus disease,” or “COVID-19.” COVID-19 proved to be extremely contagious and spread like wildfire through China’s massive population. On March 11,2020, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General oPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-18 2129 Views17396p720p720pHQ2020-05-18Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Our Oceans are Rising, Part 2 of 218:33Climate Crisis: Our Oceans are Rising, Part 2 of 2In today’s program, we will learn about the effects that Sea Level Rise (SLR) is having on our coastal communities, how it will affect the world in years to come, and what we can still do about it before it’s too late. A research paper entitled “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency” was published in the January 2020 issue of BioScience. The Paper, written in collaboration with the AmerPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-17 1452 Views9396p720p720pHQ2020-05-17Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 7 of 713:07Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 7 of 7In previous episodes, we learned that “Year Zero,” the year our planet could be destroyed, is 2026. However, we can prevent this apocalypse by making one simple change: global adoption of the vegan lifestyle. Only in this way can we prevent “Year Zero” from happening. “So, this is going to be over. And then most people are going to flip when social pressures flip the other way and many people starPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-11 1953 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-05-11Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Our Oceans are Rising, Part 1 of 216:11Climate Crisis: Our Oceans are Rising, Part 1 of 2In this series we will learn about the effects of the climate change crisis on our oceans, how this affects our world today and what we can do to reverse the damaging impacts. For the past 50 years, the ocean has been absorbing 90% of all the heat generated by global warming. Unfortunately, with the ever-increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, global temperatures have continued to rise, and Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-09 1591 Views11396p720p720pHQ2020-05-09Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 6 of 713:22Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 6 of 7Let's find out more by joining internationally acclaimed television host, author, and animal rights activist, Ms. Jane Velez-Mitchell, as she interviews Dr. Sailesh Rao. “The world that we are in now is based on normalized violence, which is really about killing things off. And we're killing things off at such a fast pace that we are in danger of killing ourselves as well. That's a frenzied rate oPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-05-04 1872 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-05-04Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 5 of 714:30Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 5 of 7On today's program, we'll travel to Costa Rica to learn more about the exciting and inspiring project, “Vegan World 2026.” “So, the mission of the ‘Vegan World 2026’ is to co-create a culture of normalized nonviolence. So, we are on top of a hill that used to be coffee farms and cattle ranches and it has now been turned into a native forest. And the idea is to understand how to live in harmony witPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-04-28 1836 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-04-28Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 4 of 711:58Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 4 of 7In this episode we'll learn that one of the most powerful tools for encouraging people to change is social media. On today’s program, we'll meet two social media animal-rights advocates, Mr. Ryuji Chua, a dedicated activist from Los Angeles, California, USA, and Ms. Renee king-Sonnen, founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Waelder, Texas, USA. “By me putting out content on the internet and being like,Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-04-20 2973 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-04-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 3 of 711:26Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 3 of 7On today’s program, We’ll continue watching “Countdown to Year Zero,” as Ms. Velez-Mitchell asks Dr. Rao how humanity will make the shift from eating meat to veganism. “And I thought that we are doing a disservice to the people if you don’t tell them what is going on. And animal agriculture, it has such a huge impact on climate change and it’s not being addressed at all.” “You’re also one of the pPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-04-13 1943 Views15396p720p720pHQ2020-04-13Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 2 of 712:33Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 2 of 7On today’s program we’ll continue watching “Countdown to Year Zero,” by joining a student climate change strike in New York City. “If we don’t do this to make huge, huge, huge changes in the next five to ten years, our kids are all going to be climate refugees.” “For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have got away with not doing anything to fight the climate crisis.” “I would tPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-04-06 2369 Views76396p720p720pHQ2020-04-06Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 1 of 711:30Climate Crisis: Countdown to Year Zero, Part 1 of 7Welcome to Part 1 of our seven-part series on the Climate Crisis, featuring the illuminating documentary, “Countdown to Year Zero.” “We have been living in this system of normalized violence and we've been killing animals at such a fast pace. I mean, we kill more animals in four to 12 hours than all the humans that ever died in wars throughout human history put together.” “If you look at the WorldPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-03-30 2977 Views63396p720p720pHQ2020-03-30Planet Earth: Our Loving Home