Our Fragile Moment, Climate Comedy. Sept 22, 2023, Part 1
A Week Of Climate Protests, Meetings, Pledges, And ActionClimate Week NYC is wrapping up, where hundreds of events took place across the city (including one from Science Friday), all with the goal of...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Explaining 'Carbon Bombs'
The third winner of Covering Climate Now's "Journalist of the Year" award, Damian Carrington, environment editor at The Guardian, discusses the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, holding world...
View ArticleOcean Climate Solutions, Florida Corals, Climate Video Games. Sept 22, 2023,...
Florida’s Reefs Are Vanishing. Can Scientists Save Them?This was a bad year for Florida’s coral reefs. Since the 1970s, reef cover in the Florida Keys has decreased by 90%. Those remaining reefs have...
View Article2 years after Hurricane Ida deaths, are NYC's basement apartments any safer?
After at least 11 people drowned in New York City basement apartments when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the region, city officials promised better protection for people living in these...
View ArticleEven amid dire climate change warnings, NJ doesn’t protect farm workers from...
There are no heat-specific federal or New Jersey laws regulating conditions for the roughly 25,000 farmworkers in New Jersey — even as state environmental experts expect the number of heat-related...
View ArticleAl Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip”
Despite months of discouraging news about extreme weather conditions, the former vice-president Al Gore still believes that there is a solution to the climate crisis clearly in sight. “We have a switch...
View ArticleAl Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip”
Despite months of discouraging news about extreme weather conditions, the former vice-president Al Gore still believes that there is a solution to the climate crisis clearly in sight. “We have a switch...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: EVs vs. The UAW; Thinking of Ancient Rome?; The...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.EVs vs. The UAW (First) | Ever Think About the Roman Empire? (Starts at 29:30) | The Winning New York Sports Team (Starts at...
View ArticleAl Gore on the Solution to the Climate Crisis
Despite months of discouraging news about extreme weather conditions, the former Vice-President Al Gore still believes that there is a solution to the climate crisis clearly in sight. “We have a switch...
View ArticleClimate Change and Your Job
For our Climate Story of the Week, listeners share the ways that their jobs are being affected by climate change or how is their jobs are affecting climate change -- whether they work in a green job, a...
View ArticleRep. Dan Goldman; The Palestinian Perspective; How Chronic Illnesses Lowered...
On today's show: U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (D, NY-10) discusses the latest news from the Middle East following his trip to Israel over the weekend when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack at...
View ArticleMTA Chair Janno Lieber; CCRB Chair on Kawaski Trawick; Biden's Foreign Policy...
On today's show: John "Janno" Lieber, chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), talks about the MTA's resiliency to climate change, and the latest on accessibility and ridership...
View ArticleThis poet turns to science in times of uncertainty
Poet Jane Hirshfield calls these “unaccountable” times. Crises in the biosphere—climate change, extinctions—collide with crises in human life. And in her new book Ledger, she says she has tried to do...
View ArticleRainy Weekends: Weather or Climate?
In this week's Climate Story of the Week, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, research scientist, meteorologist and an expert in extreme weather and flooding at the International Research Institute for Climate and...
View ArticleHundreds attend NYC buildings hearing about softened enforcement for major...
Hundreds virtually attended a Department of Buildings hearing on Tuesday to weigh in on the fate of Local Law 97, which requires New York City’s biggest carbon polluters — buildings over 25,000 square...
View ArticleHow an 8-acre green roof atop the Javits Center is boosting NYC’s biodiversity
It’s migratory bird season, and ecologists are cataloging the large number of birds that stop and refuel in New York during journeys that can reach up to 1,000 miles. On a recent Thursday afternoon at...
View ArticleNJ offshore wind developer nixes 2 major projects, hobbling Murphy's climate...
Danish wind giant Orsted is abandoning two major offshore projects in New Jersey, the company announced Tuesday, marking a major reversal to Gov. Phil Murphy’s climate agenda and further threatening...
View Article40 Years Of Sounding The Alarm On Nuclear Winter
This week holds anniversaries for two important milestones in nuclear warfare. On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated a massive hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands. The new weapon vaporized...
View ArticleElection Day; NY/NJ Wind Power Update; Tracy K. Smith; Trump's Testimony
On today's show:Listeners call in to share who the voted for in local races across New York and New Jersey, then Brent Johnson, political reporter in the Statehouse bureau of The Star-Ledger and...
View ArticleChristiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution
The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as...
View ArticleHow Five Elements Define Life On Earth
Over 99% of a human cell is made up of just five elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus. That same elemental mix exists, with minor variations, in every other living thing on...
View ArticleMayor Adams' Fundraising Troubles; COP28 Preview; Remembering the Late...
On today's show: William Rashbaum, senior writer for The New York Times, talks about his reporting into the FBI's investigation of Mayor Adams' campaign fundraising operations and whether there are...
View ArticleCity Spending Cuts; Hoboken's Response to Climate Change; Adam Kinzinger;...
On today's show:Laura Nahmias, senior reporter covering New York City and state politics at Bloomberg News, discusses the cuts to services from libraries to the NYPD, in a mid-year adjustment from...
View ArticleRegulating Big Tech and AI; Betting on Carbon Capture; What Deregulation Did...
On today's show: Sara Morrison, a senior Vox reporter who covers data privacy, antitrust, and Big Tech, talks about the firing and hiring of Sam Altman and government efforts to regulate AI, plus the...
View ArticleWhy Is The Head Of An Oil Company Running The COP28 Climate Conference?
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) is underway in Dubai.On Today's Show:Nina Lakhani, senior climate justice reporter at The Guardian U.S., breaks down the latest from...
View ArticleImagining the 2nd Trump Presidency; COP28 Updates; Curbing E-Bike Fires; Real...
On today's show:Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, talks about magazine's new issue that examines how different a second Trump presidency could be from the first, plus the latest...
View ArticleA Mixed Report Card for COP 28 and the Rise of Climate "Delayism"
This week, the United Nations' largest annual conference on climate change, COP 28, came to a close. The gathering endured a fair amount of drama this year, headlined by its location (Dubai) and...
View ArticleCOP28 Climate Conference Ends | Why Are Some People Affected By Seasonal...
Climate Conference Ends, With Few Immediate ResultsThe United Nations climate conference, COP28, ended this week in Dubai. After a lot of arguing over wording, the final agreement from the meeting...
View ArticleClimate Delay-ism and the Real Goals of the Book Banning Movement
An unprecedented deal on transitioning away from fossil fuels was struck at the United Nations’ COP 28 summit, but many scientists say the timeline is too slow. On this week’s On the Media, hear how...
View ArticleIt's Not Easy Going Green
When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. The...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Politics; NY3's Special Election; Climate & Essential...
On today's show:It's January 2024 and both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary are coming right up. Astead Herndon, New York Times national politics reporter, host of their politics podcast...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: National Debt; Elements & Climate Change; Dry January
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Paul Krugman on the national debt (First) | Five essential elements and climate change (Starts at 27:10) | Listener calls on going...
View ArticleTaking Action for the Climate
In our climate story of the week, Dana Fisher, director of the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity and a professor in the School of International Service at American University and the author...
View ArticleLinks between climate change and infectious disease
Climate change continues to adversely affect the infectious disease situation across the globe. Countries like Zambia, Bangladesh and Sudan are seeing a rise in infectious disease cases as they battle...
View ArticleLet's take a field trip!
We’re working on an upcoming episode about the science-inspired art that you’re making! If you want to share paintings, songs, pottery, poetry, or anything else, we’d love to hear about it. Write to us...
View ArticleThe Battle for Clean Energy in Coal Country
Montana has a long history of making money by extracting and exporting its natural resources, namely coal. State politicians and Montana’s largest electricity utility company seem set on keeping it...
View ArticleWhy Local Municipalities are Banning Green Energy
Elizabeth Weise, national correspondent for USA TODAY covering climate change and the energy transition, talks about her year-long investigation into why and how communities across the United States...
View ArticleClimate Scientist Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case
Climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann won a defamation lawsuit against two conservative writers last week.The verdict was 12 years in the making. In 2012 writers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn accused Mann...
View ArticleAOC On Five Years Of The Green New Deal
Five years ago this month, progressives in Congress began pursuing the passage of a legislative package known as the Green New Deal.On Today's Show:U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14th...
View ArticleA Public Housing Community in Miami Faces Climate Gentrification
Eight miles inland of Miami's beaches, a documentary follows residents of a local public housing community as they fight to save their neighborhood from climate gentrification. Academy Award-nominated...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Senate Primary; Redistricting (Again) in NY; Can Snowmaking be...
On today's show: The Senate primary race to replace Sen. Bob Menendez, between Rep. Andy Kim and the governor's wife Tammy Murphy, is in full swing. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, host of the...
View ArticleKara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She would stare at the teletype machine at the entrance and wonder why this antique sat there when it could...
View ArticleKara Swisher on Tech Billionaires: “I Don’t Think They Like People”
Kara Swisher landed on the tech beat as a young reporter at the Washington Post decades ago. She would stare at the teletype machine at the entrance and wonder why this antique sat there when it could...
View ArticleComparing Biden and Trump on Climate Change; What's Next for the Museum of...
Coming up on today's show:Scott Waldman, White House reporter focused on climate change at Politico's E&E News, compares President Biden's record on climate with former President Trump's, and...
View Article2023 Was Hottest Year On Record | The NASA Satellite Studying Plankton
The World Meteorological Organization’s report confirms last year had the highest temperatures on record and predicts an even hotter 2024. Also, NASA’s new PACE satellite will study how these tiny...
View ArticleThe Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales
By the time researchers found the dead whale on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, her jet-black skin was pockmarked by hungry seagulls, her baleen had been dislodged from her mouth, and thin rope was wrapped...
View ArticleEating More Oysters Helps Us—And The Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay produces around 500 million pounds of seafood every year, providing delicious blue crabs, striped bass, oysters, and more to folks up and down the coast. It’s one of the most...
View ArticleToxic Labor
This is a special episode by Futuro Investigates, in collaboration with The Center For Public Integrity and Columbia Journalism Investigations. In the absence of federal or state data showing how many...
View ArticleThe Global Mental Health Toll Of Climate Change | Capturing DNA From 800...
An explosion of research is painting a clearer picture of how climate change is affecting mental health across the globe. Also, a citizen science project aims to find species that have gone unnoticed...
View ArticleWhat Worsening Floods Mean For Superfund Sites
Superfund sites are some of the most polluted areas in the country, containing highly toxic waste such as asbestos, lead, and dioxin. Cleaning them up, which follows a systematic, science-based process...
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