Doctor Moogega Cooper is one of the world’s foremost experts on sterilization of spacecraft materials, working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Planetary Protection Group. She is a planetary protection scientist charged with keeping not only Earth safe from alien life forms, but with making sure human’s extra-terrestrial voyages don’t infect places like the moon, Mars or even the moons of Jupiter. Join us as...

The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change released by the National Security Council in October of 2021 lists eight separate climate change effects, each of which portends impacts on food security: heat, heavy precipitation and flooding, drought, sea level rise, arctic ice melt, tropical cyclones, coral reefs, and biodiversity. As populations experience stressors over the production and consumption of food, the potential for mass hum...