Environment & climate
The state of the planet, honestly told. What's changing, what's being done, and what's working.
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An examination of whether 3D printing and factory-built housing can scale to meet demand or if regulatory and financial bottlenecks remain the true barriers.
Engineered wood is strong enough to raise tall buildings while storing carbon instead of emitting it. Explore how mass timber works and why it could transform one of the world's dirtiest industries.
Generating renewable power is increasingly cheap; storing it and moving it where it's needed is the real bottleneck. Explore the engineering and economics of grids, batteries, and why the transition lives or dies on infrastructure.
Heat, drought, and rising seas are already pushing people to move. Explore how a warming world is reshaping habitability and the geopolitical pressures building around large-scale migration.
How one of the richest fisheries on Earth was fished to collapse in a few decades, the communities it devastated, and what the long, uncertain recovery teaches about managing shared resources.
An examination of the scaling potential and systemic risks of direct air capture and other carbon dioxide removal technologies in the race to meet Paris Agreement targets.
Once left for dead, nuclear energy is being reconsidered as a climate solution even as some countries shut it down. Weigh the honest case for and against — safety, waste, cost, and carbon — behind the whiplash in policy.
When wolves returned to Yellowstone, the effects rippled through the whole ecosystem, even changing the course of rivers. Explore trophic cascades and what they reveal about how tightly nature is connected.
The state of the planet, honestly told. Episodes cover the grid problem at the heart of clean energy, nuclear power's second act, the scramble for lithium and cobalt, solar geoengineering's cheap and risky promise — and the ozone hole, the one global crisis the world actually fixed. What's changing, what's being done, and what's working, without despair or spin.
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