Scientists have defined nine planetary boundaries: climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol pollution, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows of nitrogen and phosphorus, land-system change, and the release of novel chemicals.
This webinar in Mongabay’s free webinar series explores these planetary boundaries and Earth’s tipping points and how reporters can better cover them.
Event details
When: July 27th at 11am UTC
Recording: YouTube
Register: Closed
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The experts
Claire Asher
Claire Asher is a freelance science writer with a Ph.D. in biology. Her writing has appeared in New Scientist, BBC Earth, Science NOW, Mongabay, and The Scientist, among others. Her interests include conservation, sustainability, biodiversity, and deforestation. She has written extensively for Mongabay on planetary boundaries, including about the scientific framework itself, the novel chemical entities boundary, and interactions between boundaries.
Sharon Guynup
Sharon Guynup is an award-winning journalist, author, producer, and photographer who covers environmental issues, particularly wildlife and ecosystems. Her work has appeared in publications including Mongabay, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, and Scientific American––and peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is a consulting producer on TV and documentary film projects, National Geographic Explorer and global public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Glenn Scherer
Glenn Scherer is a journalist and editor whose writing about the environment has appeared in Scientific American, Salon, Grist, DailyClimate, and more than 150 U.S. newspapers. He has worked as a researcher and speechwriter for TV journalist Bill Moyers. He co-founded Blue Ridge Press in 2007, a nationally syndicated environmental commentary service published in 550 of the nation’s newspapers which has reached more than 90 million readers. He is an editor-at-large here at Mongabay.
About Mongabay
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