How Climate Change Is Impacting Reproductive Health
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Justice Department to weigh in on two cases that deal with whether cities and states can hold fossil fuel companies responsible for the effects of climate change. While we wait to see what happens, one thing is abundantly clear: climate change is already affecting our health. Vox Media, Grist and The 19th News teamed up for a series on how our changing climate is reshaping the reproductive cycle from menstruation to menopause. Lead reporter Zoya Teirstein joins us to talk about the series, “Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis.”
And in headlines: Voters in the key swing state of Nevada head to the polls today to vote in the state’s primary election, the United Nations Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored ceasefire resolution for the war in Gaza, and researchers say wild African elephants call each other by unique names when communicating.
Show Notes:
- Read the series- Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, June 11th. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.4 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day |
| 0:08.0 | where we are once again scratching our heads |
| 0:11.2 | after listening to Donald Trump go off on a tangent about how he would |
| 0:15.4 | rather die by electrocution than be eaten by a shark at a campaign rally on Sunday. |
| 0:21.8 | I bet a lot of people would be interested to watch |
| 0:24.3 | either scenario so just let the people know when to tune down on. On today's show |
| 0:31.8 | it's primary day in Nevada we look at the highly contested races in |
| 0:36.2 | the state plus the United Nations Security Council approved the US-backed |
| 0:40.8 | ceasefire resolution for the war in Gaza. |
| 0:44.0 | But first, on Monday the US Supreme Court |
| 0:46.2 | asked the Justice Department to file a brief in two appeals cases |
| 0:49.6 | that the court is considering taking up. |
| 0:52.1 | The cases, Senoko versus Honolulu and Shell versus Honolulu, |
| 0:55.5 | ask the court to decide whether greenhouse gas emissions can only be regulated by the federal government |
| 1:00.3 | or if individual states have the power to regulate emissions themselves. |
| 1:04.0 | Last year, the state of California sued five oil and gas companies for what they called a |
| 1:09.0 | decades-long campaign of deception that led to harms caused by climate change. |
| 1:14.4 | And then other states, including Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, |
| 1:18.9 | and a number of other local governments filed suits as well. Meanwhile 19 conservative state attorneys general |
| 1:25.8 | filed a lawsuit to stop those progressive suits from holding gas and oil |
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