How to Cover Planetary Boundaries | Mongabay Webinars
This webinar in Mongabay's free webinar series explores the topic of planetary boundaries and Earth's tipping points and how reporters can better cover them. Our panel features journalists, and Mongabay contributors Claire Asher and Sharon Guynup, including Mongabay editor-at-large Glenn Scherer.
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.
Want to pitch us a story on planetary boundaries? Find more information and submit your pitch here: https://mongabay.org/programs/news/op...
Subscribe to our newsletters here:
https://mongabay.us14.list-manage.com...
Resources for your reporting:
A guide to Mongabay’s published planetary boundaries stories
Planetary boundaries overview
“The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable” - Claire Asher
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the...
(An excellent place to start to gain an understanding of the planetary boundaries concept).
Mongabay Planetary Boundaries Series 2020-2023 – 150 articles
(Before pitching a Mongabay Planetary Boundary story, please review the series to educate yourself, see what topics Mongabay has covered, and to get ideas for stories you want to pitch).
Stockholm Resilience Centre - https://www.stockholmresilience.org/r...
(A single page providing brief descriptions of each of the nine planetary boundaries).
Mongabay planetary boundary background stories:
(Each of the following stories cover the basics of 1 of the 9 planetary boundaries):
Chemical pollution and the release of novel entities
“Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?” – Claire Asher
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/nov...
Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans
“Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet” – Ashoka Mukpo
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/nit...
Land-system change
“We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await” – Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/wev...
Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle
“Freshwater planetary boundary ‘considerably’ transgressed: New research” – Petro Kotze
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/fre...
Atmospheric aerosol pollution
“Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health” – Conrad Fox
-https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/aer...
Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinction)
“Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated” – Elizabeth Claire Alberts
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/glo...
Ocean acidification
“Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?” – Elizabeth Claire Alberts
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/aci...
Stratospheric ozone depletion
“The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?” ¬— Jane Palmer
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/eve...
You can find more Mongabay reporting on these subjects by googling individual topics and the word “Mongabay”
----
Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Check out https://www.mongabay.com/. Watch more of Mongabay's videos: @MongabayTV
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
6:29 - The 9 planetary boundaries
11:49 - How to use the framework
20:45 - Biggest stories right now
32:00 - Gaps in coverage
40:10 - Ecological tipping points
44:12 - Questions to keep asking
51:45 - Crossing tipping points
54:30 - Framing Solutions
1:02:55 - Audience Q&A
1:12:18 - Closing remarks