The Vegetables 99% of American Farms Refuse to Grow

From PBS Terra. Urban food systems prioritize long-distance supply chains that favor shelf life and transportability over flavor, nutrition, and ecological resilience. As a result, many East Asian vegetables consumed in U.S. cities are conventionally grown, imported from far away, and limited to a narrow range of commercially viable varieties. At Choy Division Farm in…

This Storm is OVERPOWERING Global Warming ?!?

From PBS Terra. If global warming mean what it says it means, then why did the US get hit with such a powerful winter storm? Weathered’s Maiya May explains how cold Arctic air coming south is, counterintuitively, affected by a warming Arctic. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local…

This Is How the World Ends According to Science

From PBS Terra. Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/PBSWeathered?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Weathered Merch: https://crowdmade.com/collections/weathered?srsltid=AfmBOoqD_u-BPUDcUpEZyzLnz95hLnizczYPEILsp1PXZM4XadRuxK_M There’s an 18% chance that global warming exceeds four degrees by 2100 and that’s not a small risk when the stakes are civilization-ending. In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher Luke Kemp and strategic climate risk expert Laurie…

I Visited LA 1 Year After the Fires. What I Saw SHOCKED Me.

From PBS Terra. Nearly a year after the devastating Los Angeles fires, Weathered host Maiya May returns to document what recovery really looks like. What she finds shocks her: communities still navigating immense loss, bureaucratic roadblocks, and unresolved questions about what went wrong. Yet amid the challenges, she is unexpectedly uplifted by the determination, innovation,…