The Green Planet Monitor
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Sex in the Brain
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive kind? Pull out your DNA barcode reader, and find out
Oceans of Energy
Tapping Earths largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, theres salt gradient energy. Wherever fresh river water flows into salty seas, ele
Wages of Impunity
A conversation about Palestine-Israel with Dutch-Palestinian commentator Mouin Rabbani. The GPM met up with Rabbani in The Hague for an extended discussion about Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the Pa
Staatsräson
Almost a million uncommitted US voters want Kamala Harris to stand up for an arms embargo on Israel, and an end to the Gaza genocide. The GPM speaks about this, and more, with CODEPINK co-founder Mede
Original Child Bomb
Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific Island nation that paid the other ultimate price, tu
Base Nation
Israels 57-year military occupation of Palestine is unlawful, the World Court rules, and must come to end. Will Israel abide by the ruling? Will countries like Canada enforce it? Washington certainly
Mobile Petri Dishes
Mobile phones -- smart, incredibly useful. Life support systems. Theyre also mobile Petri dishes! The GPM speaks with a microbiologist who knows. And the roots of the US anti-abortion movement; misog
Genetic Gold Mine
The wheat genome -- much larger than the human genome, and packed with lost alleles for resilient wheat in a warming world. Plant researchers in the UK and China united to sequence the source code of
Apes on Steroids
The Great Acceleration: Earth systems commandeered by permanent human growth economics, fueled by coal, oil and gas. A quarter of the planet's core energy base -- natural primary productivity -- appro
Killing the Future
Killing the future in Gaza. Reducing it to rubble. Forcibly transferring its people into filthy tent camps, or onto the street. Starving them. Hunger and disease go hand in hand. The GPM speaks with A