Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow L.A. Cleaned Its Air—and What It Means for Climate Policy Today
Los Angeles was once defined by smog that for decades choked the city with toxic haze. It obscured surrounding mountains and exposed people – especia…
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California Farmers Struggle to Weather the Agriculture Crisis
It is a tough time to be a farmer. President Trump’s tariffs last year raised many of the costs of farming and shrunk food exports. Threats of immigr…
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Fewer Friends, More Pressure: The State of ‘American Men’
Journalist Jordan Ritter Conn has spent years studying some of the psychological challenges facing men in the United States. These include feelings o…
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Why We’re Headed Back to the Moon For the First Time in Half a Century
“We go for all humanity,” remarked Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, moments before the rocket taking him and his crew to the moon launched on Wedne…
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Planning to Vote By Mail This November? What Californians Need to Know
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that aims to place federal restrictions on voting by mail ahead of this fall’s midterm elections…
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San Francisco Has Tried to Make its Streets Safer for Pedestrians – Has it Worked?
After a decade of Vision Zero, the effort that aimed to end traffic fatalities and severe injuries, San Francisco saw a drastic decrease in 2025 traf…
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In New Book, Sen. Cory Booker Urges Americans to Take a 'Stand'
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said this weekend that Democrats have “failed to meet this moment” and that his party needed “generational renewal.” T…
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A Close Look at the Earth's Tiniest, and its Most Vast, Wonders
National Geographic Explorer and documentary filmmaker Ariel Waldman challenges our sense of scale in her new PBS series “Life Unearthed” which explo…
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How Can Climate Entertainment Help Us Talk About Climate Change?
Is emphasizing the cold, hard facts of climate change – the acres lost to sea level rise, the percentage increase of global warming – actually the ri…
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Campus Closures and Teacher Layoffs: Bay Area Public Schools In Crisis
Education funding for California’s public schools is one of the largest parts of the state budget. Yet districts across the state, and here in the Ba…
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