Don Pinnock tells how climate journalist Leonie Joubert and the lonely work of creating agency among communities struggling to make sense of the effects of climate change.

In this TEDxJohannesburg talk, Leonie traces how profit-driven systems keep the tap of plastic production wide open while the rest of us absorb the consequences. Exposing the politics behind this crisis, she argues that only bold regulation, accountability, and a global shift toward a true circular economy can uphold our right to healthy, breathable air.

Leonie joins the Unexpected Elements team to mark the passing of a television institution, the end of the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Why, the presenters wondered, would a television series ending leave people sad.

Also: what does science say about how to engage with screens while still protecting your vision, now did visual ecologist Daniel Hanley create a camera to help people visualise the world that animals see, and why do have have green insects and green birds, but no green mammals?

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 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, host of 702’s Sunday morning Breakfast Show, chats with Leonie about greener tourism and practical tips for sustainable events.

Tangelic Talks podcast hosts Victoria Cornelio and Andres Tamez welcome 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?

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, 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 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.

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 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.