India Climate Activist Jailed / Beyond the Headlines / A New Leader for USDA / The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
Amid ongoing massive farmer protests, the Indian government is cracking down on activists including Disha Ravi, the young climate activist who founded Fridays for Future - India. How climate activism connects wi ... Show More
Oct 30
Microplastics, Inflammation, and Your Health; 50,000 Dead from Europe’s 2026 Heat; Saving a Big Bug ‘Down Under’ and more.
Plastics have been widely adopted in all sorts of products from food packaging to toys to medical devices, in part because they don’t tend to chemically react. But new research challenges that notion when it comes to microplastics, finding that contact by tiny chips of plastic wi ... Show More
51m 50s
Oct 23
Fracking and Data Centers, A Fossil Fuel Treaty Beyond the UNFCCC, Hurricane Helene's Impact Brought to Life and more.
One of the states where data centers to power AI are growing is Pennsylvania, which also has a large supply of natural gas. In Upper Burrell, a town just east of Pittsburgh, a data center expansion could be fed by fracking rigs already pumping gas out of the ground. The Allegheny ... Show More
51m 48s
Oct 16
Powerful Pacific Storms Amid ‘Super’ El Niño, Pesticide Atrazine Contaminating 25% of Rivers, and ‘A Guardian and a Thief’
Boosted by climate change, this year’s El Niño has intensified into a “Super El Niño,” meaning sea surface temperatures in parts of the Pacific are over 2 degrees Celsius hotter than average. How this has brought one strong storm after another churning across the Pacific Ocean wh ... Show More
51m 47s
Mar 2021
India's Farmers' Protests
On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from Copenhagen, by Ravinder Kaur, author of Brand New Nation, to discuss the farmers' protest in India, how they've sustained momentum for a hundred days, ... Show More
26m 34s
Feb 2021
Protesting farmers, India's democracy, and Rihanna
Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss the huge farmers’ protests in India. They explain the very real policy debate over new agricultural reform laws that sparked the protests, and how that debate has now been obscured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist politics, internat ... Show More
43m 30s
Jan 2024
Does India Need A Second Green Revolution?
<p>As India eagerly awaits the 2024 budget announcement, Host Shambhavi Anand sits with Dr. Seth Meyer, Chief Economist, United States Department of Agriculture to discuss the concerns about the potential impact of climate change on global food security. The conversation delves i ... Show More
22m 40s
Oct 2022
Iranian song fuels anti-regime protests
<p>The US and Germany are leading calls to overhaul the World Bank to better address climate change, ships carrying Ukrainian grain are stuck in a Black Sea backlog, and protesters in Iran are moved by a viral song that was inspired by their social media posts. Plus, the FT’ ... Show More
10m 11s
Aug 2023
Vandana Shiva - The Truth About Food!
<p class="media-description media-description--first">Russell chats to the Indian scholar and environmental activist, Vandana Shiva. Recorded live at Community 2023, Russell and Vandana tackle the farmers' fight against corporate power, how elites are flexing their control, and t ... Show More
24m 29s