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BBC Unexpected Elements: A Storm of Science

Leonie joins presenters Alex Lathbridge and Andrada Fiscutean on the BBC Unexpected Elements team to talk about how AI might help us better predict the weather patterns, and whether it could act as an early warning signal to help us prepare for natural disasters, and we look at what a sinkhole off the Coast of Belize has helped reveal about 6000 years of storm history in the Caribbean.

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Nokukhanya Mntambo: Chasing Climate Stories through Leonie’s lens

Nokukhanya Mntambo sits in for Gugs Mhlungu, host of 702’s Sunday morning Breakfast Show, to chat with Leonie about her journey across South Africa documenting untold climate stories, from the impact of mining and disposable waste to the role of grasslands and how South Africans are responding to environmental change.

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Pollution, Power And Storytelling: Leonie Joubert On Climate Journalism And Community Resilience

Tangelic Talks welcomes Leonie Joubert, South African science writer, journalist, and storyteller who has spent over two decades following the toxic trails of pollution. From carbon emissions driving climate collapse, to processed food fueling disease, to plastics polluting our ecosystems, Leonie’s work asks a critical question: Who profits from pollution, and who pays the price?

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BBC Unexpected Elements: Mountains of overtourism

Leonie joins presenters Caroline Steel and Chhavi Sachdev with the BBC Unexpected Elements team to talk about emerging evidence that microplastic pollution is blowing in over one of southern Africa’s most important high-altitude water catchments.

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Gugs Mhlungu: The environmental cost of disposable nappies and how to reduce it

Gugs Mhlungu, host of 702’s Sunday morning show, The Nature Diary, chats with resident conservationist Tim Neary and science writer Leonie Joubert about the environmental cost of disposable nappies and how to reduce it. The discussion hinges on the investigation into the fallout of use-and-discard nappies in the Eastern Cape highlands, which draws attention to a scourge across the region. Read more in the four-part Piles of Sh*t series in the Daily Maverick.

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Clarence Ford: Working together to restore our old-growth grasslands

Lives depend on keeping SA’s old-growth grasslands healthy. They feed our herds, they’re water factories and they mop up carbon pollution, which stabilises the climate. Protecting them from overuse, invasive trees and increasingly volatile weather extremes calls for collaborations that straddle national borders, private fence lines and the boundaries of overburdened commonages.

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