Mt Kilimanjaro melts, Dutch farmers protest and wildcats struggle
As The Netherlands desperately tries to reduce its nitrogen emissions, Dutch farmers are up in arms about what that will mean for them. Melting glacie...
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Every Thursday, a new episode of Living Planet brings you environment stories from around the world, digging deeper into topics that touch our lives every day. The prize-winning, weekly half-hour radio magazine and podcast is produced by Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster - visit dw.com/environment for more.
Climate change is here — not on its way
From heatwaves and wildfires in North America to catastrophic flooding in Germany and China, the world over, climate scientists' predictions are being...
The water we drink, the air we breathe
When we think of the things that are most vital to our lives, what comes to mind? Water? Food? Air? This week on Living Planet we have stories explori...
Taking out CO2
On Living Planet, we often talk about all the greenhouse gas emissions people put into the atmosphere. But this week, we’re looking at ways to suck ca...
A means to an end? Plastic bans and plastic pressures
This week, we've got plastics on the brain — especially pervasive, single-use plastics — as a ban of these items comes into force in Europe. But will ...
Crude awakenings: Oil on the delta, spills in the Russian Arctic and revolts in the boardroom
Oil is big business. It's an industry that employs an estimated 6 million people from Russia to Saudi Arabia to the US. But oil is a leading contribut...
Avocado farming in the right place, frog love songs & reviving life underwater in Scotland
We hear of efforts to breathe life back into seabeds off the coast of Scotland, East African farmers cash in on the Global North’s avocado obsession —...
Fighting coal in Ghana, Ibiza's ancient seeds, the art of climate science and Germany's car questions
We examine how thinking outside the box can lead to changes big and small. 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Chibeze Ezekiel tells us how he led...
Living Planet: Agribiz, making denim & corporate greenwashing
From shocks to industrial agriculture in the face of a dramatically changing climate in the US' Midwest, to a big bank funding rubber plantations in t...
Living Planet: Defining wilderness (rebroadcast)
Today on the show we ask some deep environmental questions: What rights does nature have? Should people be considered separate from the natural world?...