Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival

September 16, 2022

After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis as an...

Will Sustainable Aviation Ever Take Off?

August 19, 2022

For those of us who love to travel, climate guilt weighs heavily. Civil aviation accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and...

Turning Air into Stone: Tech-Based Carbon Removal

March 11, 2022

The last time the atmospheric CO2 amounts were as high as they are today was more than 3 million years ago. At that time, sea levels were 50–80...

Peat, Kelp and Trees: Nature-Based Carbon Capture

March 4, 2022

Many climate efforts focus on carbon capture from power plants and refineries – preventing emissions before they reach the atmosphere. But even...

Geoengineering: Who Should Control Our Atmosphere?

November 5, 2021

Solar geoengineering – such as putting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to reduce the amount of the sun’s heat from reaching the earth...

Electrify Everything

October 29, 2021

In the not-to-distant future, your entire home could be electric – from your stove to your water heater to the car you drive. And all of it...

Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church

May 21, 2021

In 2017, it got so hot in Phoenix that airplanes literally could not take off, and airlines cancelled dozens of flights. Extreme heat is likely to...

Breaking Through: A Year of Climate Conversations

December 4, 2020

In this special episode we look back at the climate stories of 2020 by listening to excerpts from a year of climate conversations, beginning with...

REWIND: Fate of Food / Plate to Planet

May 29, 2020

How will we feed a planet that’s hotter, drier, and more crowded than ever? Much of it starts with innovators who are trying to re-invent the...

Going Carbon Negative

December 7, 2018

The math is clear: lowering greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to keep the earth below 1.5 degrees Celsius of post-industrial warming. The...