Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNations Vow to Curb Plastic Waste, Redwoods Returned to Tribes, Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America and more
At a recent UN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, delegates from over 170 countries committed to come up with an ambitious cradle-to-grave, legally binding a…
4 years, 4 months ago
SCOTUS Could Shackle EPA, IPCC’s "Atlas Of Human Suffering," Ice Fishing On A Tidal River and more
A more conservative Supreme Court has taken up a case that could significantly limit the tools EPA can use to curb greenhouse gas emissions from powe…
4 years, 4 months ago
Carbon in the Congo, A Trip into Black History with George Washington Carver, UN Plastics Treaty and more
The Congo Basin is home to one of the largest peatlands in the world and a massive repository of carbon dioxide. Locals have been sustainably hunting…
4 years, 5 months ago
Black History on the Mississippi, Green Voter Opportunities, Love Chokes National Parks and more
For Black History month: Black Americans rose up from sugarcane slavery and built thriving communities along the lower Mississippi River, only to hav…
4 years, 5 months ago
Congress and Climate Action, Forest-Friendly Chocolate and More, and Beavers Move Into the Arctic
The blocked Build Back Better budget bill contains half a trillion dollars of renewable energy and climate resiliency investments. So House Democrats…
4 years, 5 months ago
Biden Oil Leases Blocked, Sustainability and the Beijing Olympics, Winter Olympics in a Warming World, and more
A federal Judge revokes the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history by the Biden Administration, citing environmental concerns. What …
4 years, 5 months ago
Unprecedented Fires In Patagonia, Warming Climate and Children’s Health, “Don’t Look Up” and the Absurdity of Climate Inaction and more
Wildfires have been raging in South America’s Patagonia, where until recently fires were rare. But invasive species and heat, drought, and dry thunde…
4 years, 6 months ago
Biden's First Year, Financing Net Zero Carbon, Climate Anxiety Therapy and more
When President Biden took office a year ago, he laid out bold goals to halt federal oil and gas drilling, reach carbon neutrality by 2050, and rectif…
4 years, 6 months ago
"Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet," Lead Pipes and Mental Health, Mapping Cancer-Causing Pollution and more
A conversation about how the Zen Buddhist practice of mindfulness can help us break out of a destructive cycle of consumption and live in harmony wit…
4 years, 6 months ago
Remembering Naturalists E.O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy, Winter Wildfires in a Changing Climate, and more
Two leading naturalists who pioneered the field of conservation biology passed away at the end of December 2021. A look back on E.O. Wilson’s big ide…
4 years, 6 months ago