Environmental Disasters Podcast

his season, we dig deeper.We travel farther.We face the uncomfortable truths:Environmental disasters don't just happen — they are made.Forgotten communities. Poisoned waters. Stolen futures.Season Two uncovers the hidden costs and lost hopes of the world's greatest — and often hidden — ecological tragedies.Because if we forget... we are doomed to repeat them.🎧 Listen to Season 2 — coming soon wherever you get your podcasts.#EnvironmentalDisastersPodcast #SeasonTwo #NeverForgetLinktree: https://linktr.ee/environmentaldisasterspodcastOriginal Music - "All the Little Pieces" by ROZKOL (go check his other stuff out https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/)

References for this episode:

https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/soil-salinity/dryland-salinity-western-australia-0

https://www.waterquality.gov.au/issues/salinity

https://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/salinity/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336437/

Videos:

https://youtu.be/yJ4pnyWdXoU?si=PVRUh5fQy_FSB_cm

Talking about salinity management systems

https://youtu.be/P4pX5W_WwU4?si=GzrphAXZyASPIeVV

Talking about the creation of the salinity problem and lasting effects

Intro - ROZKOL (Quiet Outro)

Outro - Ketsa - Unify

Heard of Times Beach, MO? One of the biggest environmental disasters in the United States happened there almost 40 years ago. A chemical company that was known for creating components of Agent Orange gets caught up in a lawsuit when a waste oil hauler uses it to spray dust roads. 

Intro: Ketsa - Unify

Outro: ROZKOL - 03 - Quiet Outro

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later

https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/educational-magazines/times-beach-missouri

Dive in to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and let's get dirty. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisastersEnviro

Website: http://environmentaldisasterspodcast.com/

Sources: The Ocean Cleanup: https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/#:~:text=A%202018%20study%20found%20that,marine%20debris%20for%20two%20reasons.

Music: Ketsa - Unify for Intro, Bio Unit - Empty Head for Outro

I'll be uploading the first episode this week, 6/14/20 so please be on the look out for it. Episode 1 - The misleading Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This first episode will be the first of many addressing the plastics issue. If the environment concerns you and you want to learn more about the challenges we're up against, please tune in. Music by ROZKOL: https://rozkol.bandcamp.com/music.