The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor


Latest Episodes

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
July 30, 2023

Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th anniversary. And, armed drones. Canada wants to buy som

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
July 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence: existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing you never know what youll find. And, Forever Chemicals in the blood of pregnant mums and

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
July 17, 2023

After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanitys fingerprints are best observed in the rock record. A Canadian geologist reli

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
July 09, 2023

Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one of humanitys great revolutions the 1950s Great Acc

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
July 02, 2023

Humanitys impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earths human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and the bottom sediments of bays and lakes -- including a

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
June 25, 2023

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 o

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
June 18, 2023

A US Supreme Court ruling throws American wetlands under the bus. In the oven, wheat and corn flour turn into bread and tortillas; spread on farm fields, rock flour reacts with carbon dioxide, turning

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
June 11, 2023

Underground fungal networks, pulsating with nutrients; storing mountains of carbon. On Lebanese hilltops, ancient cedars grow, against all odds. And, looking back at a cosmic event of colossal proport

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
June 04, 2023

Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria; the relationship starts before youre born, then youre colonized. And, Canadian forests net CO2 source, not s

Green Planet Monitor Podcast
May 28, 2023

War is not healthy for children and other living things. It isnt healthy for Planet Earths climate system either. The cradle of crop diversity here on Planet Earth Ethiopia. And, Israel-Palestin