Gitanjali 12 by Rabindranath Tagore The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course ... Read more
How is today’s warming different from the past? Throughout its history, the Earth has gone through climate changes which were not caused by humanity. Scientists use evidence such as tree rings, layers of ice in glaciers, coral reefs, and sedimentary rocks to determine and build the record of Earth’s past climates. The Paleoclimate record combined ... Read more
About 66 million years ago, a terrible extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs. But it wasn’t the only event of this kind — extinctions of various severity have occurred throughout the Earth’s history — and are still happening all around us today. Borths, D’Emic, and Pritchard give a quick history of mass extinctions, featuring animation ... Read more
Extinction is a fact of life. Five times in Earth’s history, cataclysmic mass extinction events have wiped out not just a few animals, but up to 96% of life at one time. Scientists are now raising the question: are we entering the sixth great mass extinction? Catch this episode from Halfway to the Moon and ... Read more
A global food crisis may be less than a decade away. Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her work has led to some startling predictions. She estimates that the world will reach an agricultural tipping point of surging demand surpassing the system’s ... Read more
The planet is experiencing a mass extinction event with an estimated 30,000 species being driven to extinction per year. This mass extinction differs from all previous extinction events in being driven by a single species rather than a planetary or galactic process. Humans have cause multiple waves of extinctions, first as hunter-gathers targeted animals for ... Read more
Eckhart Tolle teaches that presence is available to us in every moment, but we all know how the demands of daily life can feel distracting, chaotic, and overwhelming. Watch Tolle and Russell Brand discuss how to find your presence in spite of the distractions below.
Usually, when we talk about mass extinction, we’re referring to events long past. However, extinction is also a looming possibility of the current world. Listen below to this insightful episode from The Common Descent Podcast to better understand just how bad our current ecological crisis is, what’s causing it, and whether or not it ... Read more