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Wildlife crossings are having a moment
Episode 299
Nearly three years ago, Newscast guest, author and journalist Ben Goldfarb discussed his book Crossings, which is about wildlife crossings and road …
9 hours ago
The radical plan to rethink work, wealth and planetary well-being
Episode 298
A group of more than 40 researchers spent 20 months devising a plan for the world to achieve ecological sustainability within planetary boundaries, a…
1 week ago
Addressing the 'toxic legacy' of mining in Bougainville
Episode 297
Theonila Roka Matbob grew up next to what was — at the time — the world's largest open-pit mine in Bougainville, an autonomous island in Papua New Gu…
3 weeks ago
Healing the planet requires healing ourselves, says Katharine Wilkinson
Episode 296
Katharine Wilkinson has a Ph.D. in geography and the environment, is well known for being a co-author of the book Drawdown and co-founder of The All …
4 weeks ago
A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels
Episode 295
A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away From Fos…
1 month ago
Australia claims it's 'on track' to meet its environment targets. Scientists disagree
Episode 294
Australia is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries that account for 70% of Earth's biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mamma…
1 month, 1 week ago
The world must address pandemic threats urgently, says former CDC officer
Episode 293
"[The]cruel irony here [is] that the world cannot get its act together to address these threats … people are dying, animals are suffering, we're losi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Protest works, but it needs your help now more than ever, veteran activists say
Episode 292
"We are experiencing what some people call sort of a shutdown of the public square in the United States and around the world," says veteran environme…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A new Netflix documentary captures rare mountain gorilla behavior
Episode 291
"That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming," Tara Stoinksi, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, tells me.
The be…
2 months ago
Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction
Episode 290
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share re…
2 months, 1 week ago