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 Home2023-05-15 695 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 Home2023-05-08 720 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 Home2023-05-01 588 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 Home2023-04-24 820 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 Home2023-04-17 491 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 Home2023-04-10 517 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 Home2023-03-27 679 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 Home2023-03-23 930 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 1173 Views39396p720p1080p2023-03-20Planet 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 Home2023-02-20 621 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 Home2023-02-13 849 Views17396p720p1080p2023-02-13Planet 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 Home2023-01-23 637 Views13396p720p1080p2023-01-23Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 liPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-01-09 644 Views14396p720p1080p2023-01-09Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 roadsPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2023-01-02 837 Views17396p720p1080p2023-01-02Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 PlanPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-12-26 534 Views12396p720p1080p2022-12-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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, somethingPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-12-19 767 Views17396p720p1080p2022-12-19Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 PFASPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2022-12-12 669 Views15396p720p1080p2022-12-12Planet Earth: Our Loving Home 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 Home2022-11-14 784 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 Home2022-11-07 749 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 Home2022-10-31 804 Views19396p720p1080p2022-10-31Planet Earth: Our Loving Home