Elements of Nature: How Natural Forces Shape Human Health Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar

In this episode, Aruni talks to Patrick Holden, CBE a UK organic dairy farmer, campaigner for sustainable food and farming, and co-founder with Anthony Rodale of U.K. The Sustainable Food Trust and U.S. Sustainable Food Alliance. They discuss how Patricks interest in farming were sown during his London childhood. Holden kept a variety of animals, ranging from mice and rabbits to budgerigars and myna birds, and would spend hours in his back garden studying the amphibians that ...

Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Health Equity. She is Director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, and the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Previously, she was Director of RegNet from 2014-2019, and Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of...

Alison Kenner is an associate professor in the Department of Politics, with a joint appointment in the Center for Science, Technology and Society. Professor Kenner's research is concerned with human-environment relations in late industrialism, particularly how people inhabit their homes, think about and experience environments, and work to create change in the world. Working in the traditions of experimental and collaborative ethnography, Kenner’s research tacks between political economy, eve...

In this episode we will talk about the effects of climate change on human health. We all know that global climate is changing progressively, that global temperatures are rising, the levels of greenhouse gases are increasing and glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate, but what is less well known are the effects of climate change on health, how extreme weather events and rising temperatures affecting human health and wellbeing. What are the effects of climate change on the most vulnerabl...

Today on the podcast, we will be talking with Molly Peterson. Ms. Peterson a science news writer, who reports on issues relating to climate change, catastrophe and risk for KQED, a Public Broadcasting Service member television station in San Francisco. In the past, she has was environmental correspondent at Southern California Public Radio. Her work has appeared at the New York Times, The Guardian, as well as NPR and other national outlets. She has recently reported on a ran...

Today we will talk about Earth - the key elements of nature that support all life. Tucked away in an obscure corner of the milky way, this blue planet is home to us all and the only known planet that supports organic life. Throughout its course of evolution, the planet has undergone radical transformations – from a hot fiery ball of fire to a frigid snowball earth that remained frozen for 300 million years. As the earth warmed, life flourished on the planet in exuberant profusion....