There are places where people can choose to ignore climate change. Then, there are places that it could never be considered a myth. Here, the effects of climate change can never be ignored – with floods, heat waves, extreme storms, or literal rising waters. Such a place is India – particularly, North Bihar. The floods […]
People feel better when they are in nature. There’s something about putting your hands in garden dirt, taking a walk in the forest, or camping that makes people feel more at peace, more balanced, less depressed, and happier. We need nature. Today on the podcast, we talk about what is actually going on in our […]
From islands in the South Pacific that are drowning under rising waters to communities like Flint, Michigan, communities of color, both in the US and around the world, are hit harder from climate change. It’s something called environmental racism. Sadly, sometimes these communities do little to contribute to climate change. But surprisingly, some people within […]
With the wildfires in California, extreme insect infestations in forests, and the duration between rainstorms lengthening, the western United States is in the midst of a drought. But this drought could be the part of something larger – a so-called “megadrought”, which the United States has not seen the likes of for four hundred years. […]
More than one million people live in poverty in this world, and many of those are malnourished. Meanwhile, the population of the world keeps increasing. Simply cutting down forests to make more farmland is not the solution to feed the world = as deforestation leads to increasing climate change and more and more species going […]
Last week, a total solar eclipse passed over the United States. And millions of people watched – making it perhaps one of the most viewed events in history. In today’s podcast, we talk about the awe, the wonder, and the science behind the eclipse. What was it like to stand in the moon’s shadow and […]