Addressing the 'toxic legacy' of mining in Bougainville
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 Guinea, operated by a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. This m...
16 Jun 33min
Healing the planet requires healing ourselves, says Katharine Wilkinson
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 We Can Save Project. She joins the Newscast this we...
9 Jun 46min
A 'coalition of the willing' to urge the world to drop fossil fuels
A group of 57 nations mostly from the Global South, describing themselves as "coalition of the willing" intent on making the Transition Away From Fossil Fuels, or TAFF, convened in the Colombian city ...
2 Jun 33min
Australia claims it's 'on track' to meet its environment targets. Scientists disagree
Australia is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries that account for 70% of Earth's biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes cons...
26 Mai 42min
The world must address pandemic threats urgently, says former CDC officer
"[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 losing rainforest … these are all interconnected threat...
19 Mai 35min
Protest works, but it needs your help now more than ever, veteran activists say
"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 environmental activist André Carothers. Along with the forme...
12 Mai 51min
A new Netflix documentary captures rare mountain gorilla behavior
"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 behavior she's referring to occurs in mountain gorill...
5 Mai 38min
Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry through reciprocity, not extraction
Forester and scientist Suzanne Simard is well known for her landmark 1997 paper, which demonstrated that two distinct species of trees could share resources. At the time, it turned traditional Western...
28 Apr 41min
