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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Millet: The next superfood
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Millets are a type of ancient grain that humanity has cultivated for over 10,000 years. These hardy, dryland crops include pearl, finger, foxtail and ...
Climate-proofing Africa’s crops
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From deadly cyclones to devastating droughts, Africa is already grappling with the effects of the climate crisis, which are being exacerbated by large...
How to fix our food
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, environmental leaders from 185 countries gathered in Vancouver, Canada for the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility ...
We need to talk about coffee (again)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Kenya, farmers have been growing coffee beans for well over a century. This beloved beverage still sustains livelihoods across large parts of the c...
How seed banks are protecting the future of food
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Genebanks hold the foundations of our food supply, offering insurance against the growing pressures of the climate crisis and other threats to crops w...
Financial disclosures: All you need to know
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the arena of corporate sustainability, there is a wide variety of language and jargon when discussing sustainability standards. How can a company r...
Meet this African leader transforming landscapes
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By 2050, a quarter of the world’s population will live in Africa. The continent and its people have an increasingly crucial role to play in deciding...
What does sustainable wildlife management look like?
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of people around the world still rely on wild meat as part of their basic diet, with an estimated 5 to 8 million people depending on bushmeat...
Is sustainable fashion a fad – or the future?
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If fashion were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitter after China and the U.S., contributing about 10% of global e...
The secrets of soil
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can soil save us from our disastrous climate trajectory? While the search continues for natural and technological ways to remove carbon from the atmos...
A just energy transition for Africa
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Africa faces a dilemma: how can it continue to develop and deliver better lives to its people without drastically growing its carbon footprint – esp...
These women are reshaping sustainable finance
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be a leader in sustainable finance? In this episode, we chat with Ayesha Khan, regional director of Acumen Pakistan, and Maria Am...
Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
About halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole lies the world’s most important library of seed samples: the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It...
The climate cost of war
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
War and conflict can have farther-reaching and longer-lasting impacts on our planet than meets the eye. Aside from the destruction of landscapes and h...
How sustainable finance can work for women
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rural women have enormous potential to produce and scale up solutions to the climate crisis, food insecurity and poverty, but they often still lack th...
10 years of REDD+
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2005, member states of the UN began developing a framework that was meant to ensure the protection of the world’s most important, carbon-sequeste...
How to stop the decline of the ocean
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean covers 70 percent of our planet and supplies half of the oxygen we breathe. Unfortunately, we haven’t taken great care of it: the climate ...
What’s new for forests in 2023
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Landscape News ran its Routes to Roots series on forest restoration, zooming out to see the extent of global efforts to bring more forests ...
Imagine a world without coffee
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Could the climate crisis kill coffee? Rising temperatures will cause production to decrease drastically in the world’s most suitable growing areas. ...
Restoring the world’s youngest continent
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Africa is set for a population explosion in the decades ahead, with a whopping 60% of the continent’s population currently under the age of 25. This...
How oil spills are devastating Latin America
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade, Latin America has faced a series of human-caused oil spills and climate disasters that have changed the face of the region. Thes...
How our food can support women’s rights
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s becoming increasingly clear that gender equity is crucial across every stage of the supply chain for the products we consume. But how can it be...
Meet Asia’s young ocean guardians
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Southeast Asia is globally renowned for its magnificent seascapes that have been supporting its people’s livelihoods, well-being and sense of identi...
Why you should read climate fiction
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s be honest: climate science is full of impenetrable jargon, from “greenhouse gases” to “loss and damage” and “net zero” – as we l...
Climate crash course: What is net zero?
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re listening to this, you’re probably familiar with the term “net zero,” commonly defined as a state in which greenhouse gases emitted ...
Climate crash course: Just how bad is climate change?
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are seemingly endless new reports on how global warming, disastrous weather events and biodiversity loss are happening more quickly than anticip...
Climate crash course: Loss and damage
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the key topics at this month’s COP27 Climate Change Conference is “loss and damage” – the impacts of climate change that require adapta...
Climate crash course: How greenhouse gases work
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We hear a lot about greenhouse gases, the main culprits of global warming and climate change. But have you ever stopped to think about what a greenhou...
A story of three young climate activists
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Register now for GLF Climate (11–12 November)!From organizing climate strikes to delivering powerful speeches, leading restoration projects and pion...
Climate justice for all
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Young people all over the world are organizing climate strikes, leading restoration projects, joining learning programs and trailblazing with innovati...
What does intersectionality have to do with the climate?
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1989, the term “intersectionality” was coined to account for how social identifiers – age, gender, ethnicity, class and so on – fuel discri...
Inside the youth climate movement
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Human activity has degraded the planet and its ecosystems for centuries, resulting in runaway climate change, the mass extinction of species, and now ...
Eco-anxiety: The next mental health crisis
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not just the tangible future that climate change affects; it’s also the imagined, which has the longest and darkest horizon in the minds of y...
Wild times: Saving our endangered species
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly all humans, in some form or fashion, use wild species in their daily lives. From food to energy, industry, furniture, infrastructure, apparel a...
How to talk about climate change in the digital age
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the digital age, when we are bombarded by media and competing narratives from all directions, awareness is key. Are we passive or active in what st...
Science versus fake news
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our understanding of reality is science, and so science shapes our reality. Facts, research and evidence are ideally the foundations of how consequent...
Why Africa must reclaim its food sovereignty
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For a number of reasons – climate change, the war in Ukraine, and the COVID-19 pandemic to name a few – large parts of Africa are facing famine. T...
Narratives. Power. Africa.
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consider the immensity of Africa’s powers – of its energy sources, rising generations of youth, biodiversity and landscapes, birthplaces of cultur...
There’s no climate justice without racial justice
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement swept the globe with demands for racial equity. What does racism have to do with climate change...
What’s next for women in science?
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report, featuring inputs from more than 700 exper...
How are women restoring the Earth?
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On International Women’s Day (8 March) each year, we honor 16 women who are combating the climate crisis and restoring the Earth through science, fi...
How biodiversity loss causes pandemics
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like many previous pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic most likely started when a new coronavirus crossed over from wildlife to humans. Unfortunately, ou...
What is the state of the world’s forests?
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forests can help us solve the climate, hunger and cost of living crises, but they’re rapidly vanishing just when we need them the most.Just under a ...
Isolated Amazon people are battling for survival
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss some of the world’s most remote communities: the isolated peoples of the Amazon rainforest.Most of the Amazon’s some 4...
How to prevent the next pandemic
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest in a long line of pandemics that started with a virus spilling over from animals to humans. But what if we co...
How the war in Ukraine is causing a food crisis
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ukraine produces about 10% of global wheat exports and 14% of corn exports, in addition to about half...