Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeothermal: a little-known but efficient way to heat and cool your house
More than one-third of all US energy consumption is from heating and cooling homes and buildings — a significant contribution to climate change. Air …
2 years, 4 months ago
Rare fossils from the age of dinosaurs to go up for auction
Two prehistoric predators went up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York. The skeletons of a Pteranodon and a Plesiosaur both went up for sale — and c…
2 years, 4 months ago
Leonardo DiCaprio to fund scholarships, climate education at his former elementary school
Leonardo DiCaprio will fund scholarships and a climate education program at the UCLA-based elementary school where he was once himself a scholarship …
2 years, 4 months ago
Phoenix officials ask judge for more time in clearing downtown camp of homeless people
Phoenix city officials said they have been slowly and steadily clearing hundreds of people from a downtown encampment of homeless people called “The …
2 years, 4 months ago
Got Sriracha? The price for a bottle of Huy Fong’s iconic hot sauce gets spicy with supplies short
It's not just you. Sriracha is hard to come by these days — at least for one popular brand. The shortage of Huy Fong Foods' Sriracha, the beloved red…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bank of America hit with $250M in fines and refunds for ‘double-dipping’ fees and fake accounts
Bank of America will reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding rew…
2 years, 5 months ago
Test scores show American students slipping further behind despite recovery efforts
Students across the U.S. fell further behind academically last school year despite extensive efforts to help them recover from pandemic learning setb…
2 years, 5 months ago
Your food delivery driver? He’s the company’s co-founder
Andy Fang is chief technology officer and a co-founder of DoorDash, the largest food delivery company in the US. Once a month, he gets into the shoe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Meta launches Threads as rival to Twitter
Tens of millions of people have quickly signed up to Meta’s new app, Threads, as it aims to compete with Twitter. It’s a sign that users are looking …
2 years, 5 months ago
Farmworkers in U.S. feel the heat
As Earth repeatedly broke unofficial records for average global heat, it served as a reminder of a danger that climate change is making steadily wors…
2 years, 5 months ago