Tag Archives: Global Issues

The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. In this perspective-shifting talk, energy researcher Rose M. Mutiso makes the case for prioritizing Africa’s needs with what’s left of the world’s carbon budget, to foster growth and equitably achieve a smaller global carbon footprint. After the talk, …

Carbon Farming: Climate Change Solution Or Greenwashing? Welcome back to Down On The Farm. Today on this channel, we present Carbon farming: Climate change solution or greenwashing. Many agricultural sectors today are doing the very best in helping to reduce emissions. Many believed that this carbon farming can help in …

Climate change, in a word, is scary. With rising temperatures and surging climate disasters like melting glaciers and raging wildfires, it is easy for a sense of doom to take hold. Despite this, Trevor Slansky, a recent Austin College graduate with a degree in environmental studies, asks that we suspend …

Migration is a complex issue and by no means caused by a single factor. The combination of factors such as existing migration pathways, loss of livelihoods, education, social capital among others, enable or not the mobility and immobility of people. Climate change may be among the reasons why people migrate. …

Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a stirring poem and talk, youth climate warrior Selina Neirok Leem explains why adaptation using Indigenous solutions is the only choice for people on the …

This Talk examines how Climate Change impacts countries differently and what are the implications of that. Linda Bouadjel-Zebian is a senior at Los Gatos High School. As co-founder and co-president of the Environmental Outreach Club, she is very passionate about protecting and preserving the environment. In her free time, she …

This is the story of a young girl Who didn’t care about climate change… Until she came across some very real faces behind its catastrophic impacts. Today, she stands before you, sharing those very stories. Prachi Shevgaonkar spent years traveling with Waste workers, farmers, children and citizen groups to understand …

Climate speaks through water. As our climate changes, rising global temperature is causing ever more intense storms, untimely and intense rainfall leading to frequent floods and droughts, causing sea levels to rise and glaciers to melt. Thus the accelerating climate crisis is changing our water realities and needs us to …

You’ve been told that you are causing climate change by driving your dirty car, taking a flight to go on vacation, or eating red meat; but the real concern is who we are not talking about. After seeing the statistics, you may be surprised where we should point the finger …

Adam Simon focuses on the tangible impacts of our changing climate and presents solutions that can be implemented now across multiple scales to preserve life as we know it. Adam Simon is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. He earned his …