Are Human Lives Improving?

November 15, 2018

In their 1968 book The Population Bomb, Paul and Anne Ehrlich warned of the dangers of overpopulation. These included mass starvation, societal...

A Four-Zero Climate Solution

November 14, 2018

Stabilizing our climate is going to take some hard truths – and hard numbers. “If you look at 1.5 degrees, it's about 13 years,” says...

Climate Silence: Why Aren’t There More Votes?

October 26, 2018

After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate...

Saudi America

October 18, 2018

Production of oil and gas in the U.S. has surged to levels unthinkable a decade ago due to the revolution in hydraulic fracturing, which has...

Will China Save the Planet?

October 18, 2018

Chinese factories churn out parts and products that end up in our cars, our kitchens and our cell phones. And all that productivity has improved...

Climate Press Pool: Robert Gibbs and Jeff Nesbit

October 11, 2018

Climate used to have bipartisan support. Now that the Republican party is skeptical about fighting climate change, companies are moving into a...

Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold

October 4, 2018

Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in...

Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate

September 16, 2018

Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a...

Let's Talk Solutions: Global Climate Action Summit (Extended Version)

September 12, 2018

On the eve of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), we started the conversation about how solutions could be led by states, cities, businesses...

The World on Fire

September 5, 2018

Wildfires have always been part of the landscape in the western states. But the size and intensity of fires over the last several years is...