Oct 2, 2026 · 2 hr · 25 segments
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Kris WelchHost
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So a couple of headlines before we get into our conversations this morning, and we'll start with Mother Earth and Switzerland in particular.
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth Of its ice, in just five years, big white glaciers reduced to moon-like rock deserts, according to scientists.
Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% of the first eight months of 2026 on annual monitoring of these places.
Scientists are increasingly seeing glaciers collapse from the inside, the result of internal streams.
It sounds like Nepal, doesn't it? Internal streams beneath the ice that excavate caverns rather than simply retreating from surface heat.
Fossil fuel pollution, destruction of nature, alpine regions, of course, experiencing some of the most dramatic changes.
The summer half year from April to September was the hottest and driest it has been since records began in 1864.
In that time, since 1864, humanity has filled the atmosphere with 1.8 trillion tons of carbon dioxide and heated the planet by about 1.4 degrees centigrade.
There's a story about the devastating effects of the current storms in Thailand to the population of orangutans.
Right-wing lawmakers in Spain have joined forces to reject emergency measures there to put forward, tackle the country's housing crisis, the major protests due to the eviction of this 87-year-old woman last month from a house she'd lived in for 70 of those 87 years.
The package of decrees by Pedro Sánchez's socialist-led coalition that induced a ban on evictions included a ban on evictions until 2030, but the right-wingers voted it down.
Today, a poll suggests two-thirds of people in Spain support the idea of government intervention in housing.
And they're thinking about maybe moving the elections that are scheduled for next year to a week, a month from now, November in Spain.
And in La Baie-France, the French government is struggling to deal with its worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by thousands of teenagers demonstrating outside schools across the country.
They have accused the state of disengaging, difficult conditions in classrooms with ceilings partially collapsing during class, leaks, cockroaches, buildings in disrepair, and excessive heat trying to take... being forced to take exams in the heat wave this summer.
The government of France says these grievances are legitimate, but it condemns urban violence, and we can't have protest against it, no.
So a couple of headlines before we get into our conversations this morning, and we'll start with Mother Earth and Switzerland in particular.
Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth Of its ice, in just five years, big white glaciers reduced to moon-like rock deserts, according to scientists.
Swiss glaciers shrank by 5.5% of the first eight months of 2026 on annual monitoring of these places.
Scientists are increasingly seeing glaciers collapse from the inside, the result of internal streams.
It sounds like Nepal, doesn't it? Internal streams beneath the ice that excavate caverns rather than simply retreating from surface heat.
Fossil fuel pollution, destruction of nature, alpine regions, of course, experiencing some of the most dramatic changes.
The summer half year from April to September was the hottest and driest it has been since records began in 1864.
In that time, since 1864, humanity has filled the atmosphere with 1.8 trillion tons of carbon dioxide and heated the planet by about 1.4 degrees centigrade.
There's a story about the devastating effects of the current storms in Thailand to the population of orangutans.
Right-wing lawmakers in Spain have joined forces to reject emergency measures there to put forward, tackle the country's housing crisis, the major protests due to the eviction of this 87-year-old woman last month from a house she'd lived in for 70 of those 87 years.
The package of decrees by Pedro Sánchez's socialist-led coalition that induced a ban on evictions included a ban on evictions until 2030, but the right-wingers voted it down.
Today, a poll suggests two-thirds of people in Spain support the idea of government intervention in housing.
And they're thinking about maybe moving the elections that are scheduled for next year to a week, a month from now, November in Spain.
And in La Baie-France, the French government is struggling to deal with its worst crisis in months after being taken by surprise by thousands of teenagers demonstrating outside schools across the country.
They have accused the state of disengaging, difficult conditions in classrooms with ceilings partially collapsing during class, leaks, cockroaches, buildings in disrepair, and excessive heat trying to take... being forced to take exams in the heat wave this summer.
The government of France says these grievances are legitimate, but it condemns urban violence, and we can't have protest against it, no.
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