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, coaPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2023-01-23 152 Visualizzazioni12396p720p1080p2023-01-23Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 2 of 217:13Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 2 of 2The United Nations states that rising seas threaten 90 percent of the world’s megacities. In addition, approximately 40 percent of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast. As a result, hundreds of millions of people could be forced to flee their homes by 2050. Let’s now visit Bangladesh, one of the world’s most densely populated countries, where approximately 35 million citizens liPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2023-01-09 290 Visualizzazioni12396p720p1080p2023-01-09Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 1 of 216:45Rising Sea Levels: A Threat to All Life on Earth, Part 1 of 2Since record-keeping began in the 1800s, the Earth’s average global sea level has consistently risen. Between the 1900s and the 2000s, the sea rose very slowly, an average of only 1.4 mm/year. However, between 2006 and 2015, the rate began accelerating, and now sea levels are rising more than twice as fast as before.Rising sea levels threaten many essential coastal infrastructures, including roadsPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2023-01-02 393 Visualizzazioni12396p720p1080p2023-01-02Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 2 of 216:45Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 2 of 2GHG emissions fuel climate change, which in turn causes extreme weather events and droughts to become more frequent and intense. These intense conditions are causing agricultural challenges for farmers, affecting food trade markets, and producing food scarcity crises. Many climate scientists are raising the alarm that due to climate change many food items may someday be literally wiped off of PlanPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-12-26 244 Visualizzazioni8396p720p1080p2022-12-26Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 1 of 216:40Food Crops at Risk of Extinction Due to Global Warming, Part 1 of 2On today’s show, we’ll examine how food production and consumption play a major role in emitting GHGs and how this process affects our precious planet Earth.Various scientific studies have found that high levels of GHGs are emitted at every stage of the animal-people meat production process, resulting in a massive carbon footprint for every piece of animal-people flesh consumed. However, somethingPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-12-19 382 Visualizzazioni11396p720p1080p2022-12-19Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora Forever Chemicals: What They Are and How They Affect Our Planet14:05Forever Chemicals: What They Are and How They Affect Our PlanetForever chemicals, scientifically known as per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances or PFAS, were introduced in the 1940s and have been used widely ever since. They don’t break down in the environment, can move through soils, contaminate drinking water sources, and build up in fish-people, wildlife, and even the human body.The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says exposure to PFASPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-12-12 309 Visualizzazioni12396p720p1080p2022-12-12Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 morePianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-11-14 465 Visualizzazioni18396p720p1080p2022-11-14Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-11-07 419 Visualizzazioni15396p720p1080p2022-11-07Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 infrastructurePianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-10-31 487 Visualizzazioni19396p720p1080p2022-10-31Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-10-24 480 Visualizzazioni23396p720p1080p2022-10-24Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 problemsPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-10-10 470 Visualizzazioni9396p720p1080p2022-10-10Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 emissioPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-10-04 571 Visualizzazioni19396p720p1080p2022-10-04Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 tPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-09-26 457 Visualizzazioni10396p720p1080p2022-09-26Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 gePianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-09-19 549 Visualizzazioni17396p720p1080p2022-09-19Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-09-12 914 Visualizzazioni18396p720p1080p2022-09-12Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 201Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-09-05 929 Visualizzazioni27396p720p1080p2022-09-05Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 resPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-08-22 833 Visualizzazioni18396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-22Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora The Ozone Layer: Earth’s Invisible Shield of Protection16:12The Ozone Layer: Earth’s Invisible Shield of ProtectionThe ozone layer plays a critical role in protecting life on Earth and the wondrous flora and fauna that thrive in its lush landscapes. During the 1980s, Jonathan Shanklin, a junior researcher at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), detected a hole in the ozone layer. Recognizing that the ozone hole resulted from ozone-depleting chemicals, namely chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the Montreal Protocol wasPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-08-15 694 Visualizzazioni16396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-15Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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 iPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-08-08 650 Visualizzazioni15396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-08Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora 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, nemaPianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora2022-08-01 859 Visualizzazioni20396p720p720pHQ1080p2022-08-01Pianeta Terra: la nostra amorevole dimora