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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.
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.
Gugs Mhlungu: how to host greener tourist events
Gugs Mhlungu, host of 702’s Sunday morning Breakfast Show, chats with Leonie about greener tourism and practical tips for sustainable events.
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?
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.
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.
Clarence Ford: Big corp nappy transition: tackling the pollution & waste of single use nappies
Clarence Ford speaks with science writer Leonie Joubert on tackling the environmental pollution & waste of single use nappies, and what this says about the global use-and-discard economy: that consumers are expected to mop up the pollution, when corporates should be turning off the pollution at source.
BBC Unexpected Elements: Sharks, albatrosses, the Jaws theme and fishing
Leonie joins Marnie Chesterton and the Unexpected Elements team on the BBC podcast as a guest presenter to go on a deep dive into marine biology.
Saskia Falken: Communal EC farmers tackle nappy waste in Matatiele municipality
Saskia Falken sits in for Clarence Ford, and speaks with science writer Leonie Joubert on how communal Eastern Cape farmers are tackling nappy waste in the Matatiele municipality.
BBC Unexpected Elements: Game-inspired science
Leonie joins Marnie Chesterton and the Unexpected Elements team on the BBC podcast as a guest presenter to go on a deep dive into marine biology.
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.
BBC Unexpected Elements: Ant antics
Leonie joins Marnie Chesterton and the Unexpected Elements team on the BBC podcast as a guest presenter to talk ant antics.