An environment holiday special
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The World take a look at a variety of environment stories in this holiday special. A new report finds that renewable energy sources made up more of the global electricity mix than coal for the first half of 2025. Also, scientists in Greenland study glacial meltwater to better understand what it could do to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. And, a look at how climate change is exacerbating Canada's fire season. Plus, an activist who's working to protect trees in Mexico City.
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| 0:00.0 | Fire and ice. It's all about the extremes. |
| 0:07.8 | The radiant heat coming out of this wall of flame was about 900 Fahrenheit. |
| 0:13.3 | These glacial fjords were carved during ice ages when the glaciers expanded. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Marco Wormon. |
| 0:24.9 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler, from Canadian wildfires to Greenland's ice sheet, |
| 0:29.7 | stories today about the changing environment and people trying to do something about it. |
| 0:32.7 | Like this tree vigilante in Mexico City. |
| 0:37.8 | We'll help this tree that is very stressed, he says. |
| 0:42.1 | And scientists racing to save starfish from a deadly bacteria. |
| 0:46.3 | And actually their arms fall off and walk away from their body. |
| 0:47.6 | The arms walk away. |
| 0:48.7 | The arms walk away. |
| 0:49.9 | The C-Star walks away, too. |
| 0:53.6 | Don't worry, there is hope for the C-Star and for the rest of us. |
| 0:55.7 | That's all coming up today on The World. |
| 1:01.1 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:05.2 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Glad you're spending part of the long Thanksgiving weekend with us. |
| 1:09.8 | Today's show is about something a lot of us are grateful for, our natural world. |
| 1:12.3 | It's also cause for concerns. So this hour on the show, we're going to return to some of the most consequential stories from the |
| 1:16.3 | environment beat of the past year. We begin with the good news. In the first half of this year, |
| 1:22.4 | more of the world's electricity came from solar and wind power than from coal. |
| 1:27.6 | Raul Miranda helped carry out that research with the climate think tank Ember in the UK. |
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