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Welcome to Burning Questions with your host, Leslie Davenport.Join Leslie as she sits down with thought leaders, activists, and people from all walks of life to explore the big questions shaping our climate, our future, and our shared humanity.So many of us are searching for ways to take part in meaningful change while carrying the weight of heartbreak, frustration, and grief for how our cultures, planet, and all life are suffering under the dominant paradigms we live within.Coming together around these essential questions, we can draw strength from our shared perspective and navigate these ...

After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.

Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake fire of 2007, one of the largest wildfires in Minnesota history. In sharp detail, Cary J. Griffith describes the key events of the fire as they unfold, transporting listeners to the front lines of an epic struggle that was at times heroic, tragic, and sublime.

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Andrew C. Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance) A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one...

Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.

The definitive account of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, which killed nineteen elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and also inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. “A tear-jerking classic.”—Outside Named One of the Best Books of the Year by...

A show about wildfire and its impact on the built environment.

Dr. Panicha McGuire, LMFT, RPT, and Micaela Magazzu, LMFT, are two licensed psychotherapists who share their insights and experiences on the realities of being in a helping profession. From the challenges of balancing self-care and client care to the rewards of positively impacting someone's life, they offer valuable perspectives on what it takes to thrive in this field. Whether you're a therapist or simply interested in mental health and wellness, this conversation is sure to be insightful and informative. Join us as we explore the ups and downs of the helping profession.

Straight out of The WARRmultiverse comes your favorite radio show "The Burning Bush"!! Every Saturday live on the "WARRmultiverse" Twitch & Kick 10am - 12pm. You can also re-watch on Twitch, or Kick #podcast #theburningbush #twitch #WARR #multiverse #talkshows #funny #life #lifetalks #speakmymind #radio #WARRmultiverse #live #discord #immortality #investmentadvice #history #science #technology #viewerdiscretionadvised Older Episodes contain the following music, but no longer in newer episodes: Music played on Amazon Music & Purchased with U.S. Legal Tender So Called Life - Three Days Grace Any...

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch), Dan Stinton (HealthEngine CEO), and guests, fortnightly for analysis of the politics of technology from some of Australia’s leading digital campaigners and industry experts. Brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Explore the world's pressing issues with a refreshing dose of optimism on The World is Not Burning (it just looks like it is). From climate change to human rights to world hunger, join Liz Kuhn in heartfelt conversations with experts and immersive research dives, unveiling hidden opportunities for positive change amidst our world's greatest challenges.