Latest River Earth Sciences Podcast Episodes
The Sea Also Rises
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 02, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this episode of What About Water? we take a look at the state of our rising seas from space, and learn what coastal communities on the ground are doing to adapt. Jay speaks with long-time colleague Dr. Steve Nerem, a principal investigator on NASA’s Sea Level Change team. We learn that by...
From Toilet to Tap, with Mike Markus
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 19, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWith climate change threatening freshwater sources, water demand across the globe is likely to increase by 20 - 30% between now and 2050. In this episode, we’re looking at two promising solutions to create clean drinking water from surprising places: our sewers and our oceans. We speak with Ge...
Debunking 'Toilet to Tap', with Mike Markus
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 19, 2022 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWith climate change threatening freshwater sources, water demand across the globe is likely to increase by 20 - 30% between now and 2050. In this episode, we’re looking at two promising solutions to create clean drinking water from surprising places: our sewers and our oceans. We speak with G...
Boiling Point: Water, Borders and Conflict with Aaron Wolf
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - January 05, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTransboundary waters - the rivers, lakes, and aquifers shared by two or more countries - are found in 153 of the world’s 192 countries. They account for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater flow. As a critical component of our survival, water has long been a source of conflict between...
'Portfolios will tank': Mindy Lubber, money and water
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - December 08, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWe’re already reaping the financial repercussions of climate change. Four Twenty Seven projects that by 2040, roughly $78 trillion, equivalent to about 57% of the world’s current GDP, will be exposed to flooding. On this episode of What About Water? we ask the question: can market incentives ...
Replenishing a Broken Water Cycle
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 24, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFor centuries, we have built big dams, reservoirs, and levees. Humans have steered and shaped the flow of water to irrigate deserts, prevent floods and access groundwater. But through big engineering, we’ve also created breaks in the natural flow of freshwater from source to sea. The good ne...
Replenishing a Broken Water Cycle with Sandra Postel
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 24, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFor centuries, we have built big dams, reservoirs, and levees. Humans have steered and shaped the flow of water to irrigate deserts, prevent floods and access groundwater. But through big engineering, we’ve also created breaks in the natural flow of freshwater from source to sea. The good news i...
Growing Food in Dry Times: Drought in the West
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - November 10, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt’s no surprise growing food uses lots of water. One cow needs anywhere from 3 to 30 L of water a day. It takes 3200 L of water to grow one pound of lentils. In this episode we ask, what do we do when there's not enough water to feed our food? Here in Canada, 2021 made history as prairie fa...
On Thin Ice: Iqaluit’s Water Crisis
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 27, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn this episode, we visit the city of Iqaluit in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut, which is battling a water crisis on multiple fronts. This month, residents were alerted not to drink or cook with water due to contamination. But for years, the city’s main water supply - Lake Geraldine - ha...
Climate Change Hope with Katharine Hayhoe
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 13, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn this episode: Katharine Hayhoe’s new book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, is a practical and compassionate guide for talking about climate change across differences. Combining her research with thousands of conversations with everyday people, ...
Season 3 Trailer
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 12, 2021 15:05 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWater is one of the main ways we experience the effects of a changing climate. As flooding, drought, and climate extremes grow widespread, the way we use every drop counts. This season, join What About Water with host Jay Famiglietti, as we meet the people adapting to our planet's new water re...
DamNation!
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 04, 2021 16:20 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJoin our guest host, Professor Graham Strickert, as he hosts a panel of experts to discuss the pitfalls and problems of hydropower dams. Inspired by our screening of the award-winning Patagonia film "DamNation."
DamNation! (Bonus Episode)
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - October 04, 2021 16:20 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJoin our guest host, Professor Graham Strickert, as he hosts a panel of experts to discuss the pitfalls and problems of hydropower dams. Inspired by our screening of the award-winning Patagonia film "DamNation."
Oh crap! COVID-19 In Our Wastewater?! (Bonus Episode)
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - August 28, 2021 13:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJoin us as some of Canada's leading water scientists and experts discuss how testing wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 can help us detect emerging community outbreaks. It's a dirty subject that is saving lives.
Healthy Watersheds
54 degrees North - August 11, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAfter a challenging year, we're exploring positive stories from the Skeena Region. In this episode of 54 degrees North, we explore the Healthy Watersheds Initiative projects taking place in this region. Learn more about the restoration economy and reconciliation in action. Thanks to Tara Marsd...
Tea Creek Farm and Training Facility
54 degrees North - July 02, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is a follow-up episode of 54 degrees North with Jacob Beaton from Tea Creek Farms about how their training program and food sovereignty initiative managed to operate through a year in a pandemic. Thanks to regionally based Saltwater Hank for the music and Facundo Gastiazoro for the artwor...
The Cost of Climate Migration (Bonus Episode)
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - June 11, 2021 16:40 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsClimate change has a price. In this bonus episode (recorded on Earth Day) our host Dr. Jay Famiglietti has a live virtual roundtable with three experts - Abrahm Lustgarten, Robin Bronen, and Jesse Keenan - each with a unique perspective on this multifaceted topic.
Valuing Water (Bonus Episode)
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - May 22, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsValuing water is about much more than price. In this bonus episode (a condensed version of our Let's Talk About Water virtual forum on World Water Day), Jay talks with three individuals each with a unique perspective on valuing water.
Women of The Desert
Earth Reflections - April 22, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutesIn our final episode for season 1, we share insights with two "Women of the Desert" from West and Southern Africa. Happy Earth Day 2021! #RestoreOurEarth. Dr Birguy Lamizana-Diallo, is a Fulani woman from Burkina Faso (The Sahel), who is the incoming Coordinator of the UNCCD for the G20 Global ...
The Green Entrepreneurs
Earth Reflections - March 17, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutesGreen Entrepreneurs start business ventures with a strong internal motivation related to a heightened sensitivity of environmental needs. Sustainability of the land is at the core of their business activity. In this conversation our Landscape Guardian Siyabulela Siya Sokomani and Joshua Wanya...
Best of Season 2
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 11, 2021 17:34 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWe've had a great second season on Let's Talk About Water, diving deep into some of the planet's most pressing water concerns. We looked at disadvantaged communities who don't have access to safe drinking water, and at the activists fighting to change that. We talked about how the politics of 20...
Towards a Better World with Jeffrey Sachs: Director's Cut
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 11, 2021 17:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMark World Water Day on March 22 by checking out our extended director's cut of "Towards a Greener, Better World with Jeffrey Sachs". Tune in as Dr. Sachs dives deeper into how humanity's 50,000-year-old dependence on conflict and suspicion keep us from enjoying the full benefits of our technolog...
Towards a Greener, Better World with Jeffrey Sachs
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - March 08, 2021 18:44 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWorld-renowned economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs believes humanity can leap forward with science and technology – but only if we drop our primeval addiction to war and conflict. We can create new vaccines in less than a year or measure water below ground using satellites in spaces, but political instit...
The Dreamweavers
Earth Reflections - March 08, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutesIn this episode we celebrate International Women's Day 2021 by discussing the importance supporting women to increase their financial strength, alongside mentorship to give women and girls confidence to tell their own stories. Our guests are H.E Mrs Rachel Ruto, Founder and Patron of Joyful Wo...
The Ecofeminists
Earth Reflections - March 01, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutesWe welcome two dynamic ecofeminists Oladosu Adenike (Nigeria) and Ake Mamo (Ethiopia) to a conversation about the motivations and passions which drive their environmental work. Our Landscape Guardian - Oladosu Adenike Titilope is the founder of ILead Climate pioneering the green democracy initi...
Liquid Assets: Water on Wall Street
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 22, 2021 19:54 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsColorado water lawyer James Eklund and California water policy expert Ellen Hanak talk to Jay about the future of water -- or rather, about water futures. Water futures and securities are increasingly valuable investments. Some may feel anxiety at letting financial markets commodify such a basic ...
Urban Warriors
Earth Reflections - February 20, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutesThis episode features Elizabeth Wathuti - The URBAN WARRIOR - one of the five NAWE Landscape Guardians. Her work with The Green Generation Initiative, has concentrated on planting fruit trees in primary schools, especially those in lower income areas of Nairobi, to transform the landscape and a...
Faith & Environment
Earth Reflections - February 12, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutesThis second episode features Allen Ottaro - The Good Steward - NAWE Landscape Guardian Founder and Executive Director of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA). The conversation also includes Dr Isaac Kalua - NAWE Landscape Mentor, President of The Gree...
Broken Promises, New Solutions
What About Water? with Jay Famiglietti - February 10, 2021 08:15 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFor thousands of years Indigenous North Americans drank some of the world's purest drinking water. Then came colonization and government neglect. First Nations' water quality fell and, with it, their health. But as Jay learns, change is coming thanks to Indigenous Water Protectors, like Deon Has...
Reflections of Nairobi River - Professor Bettina Ng'weno
Earth Reflections - February 05, 2021 06:00 - 37 minutesEpisode one features Professor Bettina Ng'weno, who is reflecting on the struggles of Nairobi River under the pressures of rapid urbanization, as the city grows to fulfill the ambitions of an expanding African Middle Class. Bettina applies the lens of a cultural anthropologist to the way the ci...
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