Discussions

Dr. Jane van Dis - What plastic does to our bodies, The Plastic Crisis

Jane van Dis is a medical doctor, academic and co-founder of ObGyns For Sustainable Future within Healthcare Without Harm.

Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth

United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.

Johan Rockström Planetary Boundaries

First launched in 2009, the planetary boundaries framework is a science-based health check of the nine processes that keep our planet stable and resilient. The development of this framework, now a standard for sustainability science, was led by Johan Rockström

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

From the UN Audiovisual Library: Severn Cullis-Suzuki, delivers her famous speech at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

Death By Heat

Our planet has a problem, and it's killing us seemingly more than ever before. Deaths from extreme heat have doubled in the past generation — and that stunning finding is still likely an undercount of the true toll. On this episode of Scripps News Reports, we hear from medical professionals who are retraining to address the life-threatening effects of extreme heat. We speak with climate experts about what these trends mean for the future.

Wind and Climate Change

Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more likely. This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high and low pressure along the latitude lines of the Earth, is also being influenced by climate change.