Climate News: The 'Big Idea' recorded at Bendigo's Climate Summit; Wildfire smoke and the human body; Killer heat takes girls and women; Pets and their carbon footprint

Natasha Mitchell (pictured) recorded a new episode of "Big Ideas" at the May Climate Summit in Bendigo organized by the Greater Bendigo Climate Collaboration - "On ya bike or not? Global movers, shakers, and city shapers reimagining car culture". "Killer Heat: Confronting Disproportionate Impacts on Women and Girls"; "What Wildfire Smoke Does to the Human Body"; "Corporations Determine Our Future"; "Historic First U.S. Youth Climate Change Trial Starts in Montana"; "Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California"; "Alarm at rightwing push to reverse clean-energy success in Texas and beyond"; "90 million homes in the EU have pets. How can we reduce their carbon footprint?"; "What are the dangers of wildfire smoke?"; "How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education"; "To prepare climate strikers for the future, we need to rewrite the history books"; "Climate change: young people striking from school see it for the life-threatening issue it is"; "Five ways the new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools in England doesn’t match up to what young people actually want"; "Wildfire smoke and dirty air are also climate change problems: Solutions for a world on fire"; "Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high and Earth is warming faster than ever – report"; "Americans and their cars"; "Climate change and net zero"; "‘Not a chance in heaven’ to save Great Barrier Reef, but botanic garden will keep corals"; "Climate change is a global problem. Climate action is a local solution."; "Baby got back(up): Australia embraces the big battery"; "Waste flushed down toilets to begin fuelling gas network"; "‘We are gambling with the future of our planet for the sake of hamburgers’: Peter Singer on climate change"; "As Wildfire Smoke Recedes, Parents of Young Children Worry About the Next Time"; "Only 5% of global emissions are covered by on-track targets, new Tracker from CDP finds"; "Paediatricians sign joint letter urging NT government to withdraw Beetaloo Basin fracking support"; "The government should pay people for driving electric cars, not for buying them"; "An ambitious mapping project identifies the overlap between crops and biodiversity threats"; "A first detailed glimpse of the world without us. Wildlife during COVID lockdowns."