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The Anthropocene defined — geologically. I speak with Jan Zalasiewicz about the history and work of the Anthropocene Working Group. Zalasiewicz was its first chair.
The connections between America’s permanent war economy, its military-industrial complex and climate system breakdown are the subject of a campaign by US-antiwar group CODEPINK. The GPM talks about militarism and Earth’s rising climate crisis with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin.
Dimitri Lascaris is a Canadian lawyer, journalist and human rights activist. He recently returned from a one-month trip to Russia and Crimea, aiming to learn how Russians see the conflict.
A year after the US Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade, the GPM speaks about abortion rights with Lauren MacIvor Thompson, a historian of early-twentieth-century women’s rights and public health.
With Spring just begun in the northern hemisphere, wildfires now spread from British Columbia across to the Canadian province of Alberta, and across Central and eastern Russia, a leading European climate agency reports. The GPM speaks with Greenpeace energy strategist Keith Stewart.
For people sweltering in Earth’s rising heat, driven from their homes by wildfire, swept away by rising floods or impoverished by drought, numbers don’t adequately capture the misery Earth’s human-made climate crisis is dishing out.
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Another deep dive into the Earth Chronicles audio vault: Tales of Creation & Don’t Ask What a River is For.
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The Earth Chronicles — Trees & Earth. Something I produced back in 1993. Still makes sense.
Drug-resistant infections – the new pandemic? And, a tangled network of tiny tubes, pulsating beneath our feet. Fungal networks below ground sustain life above.
In seven days Donald Trump will be President of the United States. Among the most tantalizing prospects for this new epoch: the radical transformation of US policy on Israel and Palestine.
In international relations, it’s the law of the jungle. The five most powerful countries on Earth get to pick and choose which international laws they’ll abide by, doling out slices of impunity to allies and clients.
Israel plays a host of key roles in today’s troubled world: Jewish homeland. Bastion of peace and democracy in the troubled Middle East. Clever “start-up nation” the world can turn to for smart solutions. Israeli-American activist Jeff Halper pinpoints a darker niche.
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Another deep dive into the Earth Chronicles audio vault: Tales of Creation & Don’t Ask What a River is For.
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Seven hundred million years ago, Earth’s oceans were frozen solid — so geologists say. In today’s GPM, Canadian geologist Paul Hoffman provides details. And, today, Earth’s oceans are liquid, and taking a walloping. Ocean scientists assess the damage. We speak with one of the coordinators of the Third World Ocean Assessment Report.
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A deep dive into our audio vaults: Earth in Motion — a documentary-voicescape about planet Earth, and how her rocks move.
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At Columbia University, in NYC, students protest against the university’s passionate and uncritical embrace of AI. And, a math professor talks about what AI and math have in common, if anything.
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Smash and Grab: the Trump Administration’s pathway to a borderless empire of impunity — a ‘Homeland Empire’. The GPM speaks with American historian Nikhil Pal Singh.
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Managing Earth’s endangered forests. Voices from the 21st UN Forum on Forests, in NYC.
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