306 | Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
It is commonplace to refer to the Earth’s oceans as vast and largely unexplored. But we do understand some aspects, […]
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Environment
276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting our Climate
The Earth’s climate keeps changing, largely due to the effects of human activity, and we haven’t been doing enough to
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252 | Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive
Our planet and its environment are in bad shape, in all sorts of ways. Those of us who want to
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173 | Sylvia Earle on the Oceans, the Planet, and People
It’s a well-worn cliché that oceans cover seventy percent of the surface of Earth, but we tend to give them
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133 | Ziya Tong on Realities We Don’t See
It’s a truism that what we see about the world is a small fraction of all that exists. At the
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93 | Rae Wynn-Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
Human beings have a strange fascination with dangerous, predatory animals — bears, lions, wolves, sharks, and more. The top of
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65 | Michael Mann on Why Our Climate Is Changing and How We Know
We had our fun last week, exploring how progress in renewable energy and electric vehicles may help us combat encroaching
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64 | Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future
The Earth is heating up, and it’s our fault. But human beings are not always complete idiots (occasional contrary evidence
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Episode 32: Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts
Our climate is in the midst of dramatic changes, driven largely by human activity, with potentially enormous consequences for humanity
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Episode 22: Joe Walston on Conservation, Urbanization, and the Way We Live on Earth
There’s no question that human activity is causing enormous changes on our planet’s environment, from deforestation to mass extinction to
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