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Environment & climate
The state of the planet, honestly told. What's changing, what's being done, and what's working.
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The grid problem: why clean energy's hardest part is moving it
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.
12 min
Climate migration and the redrawing of where people can live
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.
12 min
The cod collapse and the emptying of the oceans
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.
12 min
Carbon removal: can we suck CO2 back out of the sky?
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.
12 min
Nuclear power's second act
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.
12 min
Rewilding and how wolves reshaped Yellowstone's rivers
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.
12 min
The scramble for the minerals behind the green transition
Clean energy runs on lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earths — and the supply chains are concentrated in a handful of countries. Unpack the geopolitics, environmental costs, and strategic scramble for the materials of the future.
12 min
Solar geoengineering: the controversial plan to dim the sun
Deliberately reflecting sunlight to cool the planet could be cheap and fast — and catastrophically risky. Explore the science of solar geoengineering and why researchers fear both deploying it and leaving it on the table.
12 min
About Environment & climate
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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