Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPresidential Debate and the Climate, Stay Safe in Summer Heat, A Black-led Land Trust, and more.
At the first debate of the 2024 presidential election, Joe Biden and Donald Trump had vastly different responses to the single question on climate ch…
2 years, 1 month ago
Juneteenth: An Urgent Call for Climate Solutions + Robert Smalls’ Heroic Escape from Slavery
Generations of Black Americans have faced racism, redlining and environmental injustices, such as breathing 40 percent dirtier air and being twice as…
2 years, 1 month ago
Beirut’s Deadly Air, Queer Brown Vegan, Roots of Black Hair Care, and more.
Clouds of diesel fumes clog the air in Beirut, Lebanon where the virtual collapse of the power grid has led residents to rely on diesel generators. T…
2 years, 1 month ago
Alaska’s Rusting Rivers, ‘No Place to Hide’ in Pakistan, Mexico’s ‘Presidenta’ and Climate, and more.
Streams in northern Alaska are turning a cloudy orange, and scientists think the cause is metals like iron leaching from melting permafrost as the Ar…
2 years, 1 month ago
US-Mexico Water Crisis, Hot Battery Tech, Saving the Wild Coast of South Africa, and more
Amid extreme drought affecting Rio Grande tributaries, Mexico is struggling to make water deliveries to Texas as required by a treaty. How the situat…
2 years, 2 months ago
Vermont’s “Climate Superfund” Bill, A “Little Sea” With a Big Champion, The Sounds of Soil and more.
Facing costly climate impacts such as the billion-dollar flood disaster of July 2023, Vermont is seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay for some o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Eco Grief Among Scientists, Phantom Carbon Credits, Animal Self-Medicating, Nature and the Beat, and more.
2023 was the hottest year on record, at 1.48 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. That’s just below the 1.5 C increase that the UN says is the…
2 years, 2 months ago
New Power Plant Rules, Protecting India’s Forests, Fighting Pollution Linked to Online Shopping and Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks
To replace the Clean Power plan the Obama Administration failed to get past the courts the EPA published new rules for existing coal plants and new g…
2 years, 2 months ago
U.S. Funding Fossil Fuels Abroad, EPA Finally Bans Asbestos, New Era for Nuclear Power? and more.
The Biden Administration is helping finance advanced nuclear power reactors and refurbishment of traditional nuclear power stations to promote the ge…
2 years, 2 months ago
Uncle Sam Wants YOU for Climate Corps, Pushback Against ‘Chemical Recycling’, Lithium from Deep Underground and more.
On Earth Day President Biden announced the official launch of his new climate-focused jobs program, the American Climate Corps. Special Assistant to …
2 years, 3 months ago