From SpaceX to City Streets: Who Pays for the AI Data Centre Boom?
SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO has just created the world's first trillionaire. But for families in Morgan County, Georgia and Boxtown in South...
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20 of 398 episodesExtreme Heat Breaks: The hidden climate story behind the World Cup
For the first time, all 104 matches at the Men's Football World Cup will be stopped for a mandatory three-minute hydration break, halfway th...
The Agency Crisis: Heatwaves, Tony Blair and the Politics of Powerlessness
The UK, Ireland, France, Spain, and Portugal shattered their May heat records last week. Scenes reminiscent of high summer arrived months ea...
Can $30k Change the World? The Power of Climate Giving
When climate wins happen, we often credit the market. Or the policy. But is philanthropy the most underappreciated force in the climate figh...
Can the rules keep up?: Lawsuits, LLMs and the looming oil recession
An unprecedented government move to outrun the courts. A country racing to write AI into its constitution. And a global energy crisis that's...
The Jet Fuel Crisis: What’s next for aviation?
Are flights across the world about to be grounded? Is a terrible war about to create an unlikely good news story for the climate? As conflic...
David Attenborough at 100
Monarch butterflies crossing a continent. Peregrine falcons above Manhattan. A giant lemur most of the world had never heard of, until one m...
“This is civilisation changing stuff”: Is AMOC the hardest climate story to tell?
Europe plunged into a deep freeze. Life as we know it upended. The 2004 film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ gave a generation of terrified journal...
Beyond the Oil Crisis: What’s actually blocking the transition?
The Iran crisis continues to prove how dangerously dependent the global economy is on fossil fuels. But what will it actually take to move b...
It’s In Our Blood: Communities vs Forever Chemicals
There are chemicals in your blood that weren't there fifty years ago. They are in the products you use, the water you drink, the food you ea...
The Health Emergency Hiding in Rising Seas
Sea-level rise is often spoken about in centimetres, forecasts and future scenarios. But what if we understood it as a health emergency that...
Forecasting Disaster: A ‘super’ El Niño? And the case for early action
As headlines warn of a possible ‘super El Niño’ later this year, we ask: how do we respond to a warning before it becomes a catastrophe? The...
Flooded: Is extreme weather shifting the climate front lines?
We used to be shocked by this. Hundreds of thousands displaced, millions affected, whole communities washed out. But somewhere along the way...
The Iran Crisis and the Price of Oil Dependence
War in Iran has triggered another global energy shock. Once again, conflict has exposed the deep instability built into the fossil fuel syst...
Water, Wildlife, and Climate’s Hidden Trade-Offs
The climate crisis is not one problem. It is a crisis of water, food, energy, language, justice and power - all colliding at once. So how do...
Who Pays? The Unfair Economics of Climate Finance
This week we acknowledge the US strikes on Iran and the escalation that has followed. The immediate human cost is what matters most right no...
Catastrophe Apathy: Why understanding the climate crisis isn’t enough
Climate concern is not the problem. Most people have it. What's missing is everything that turns concern into action - and understanding tha...
Trump Moves to Dismantle US Climate Law - Now Comes the Legal Test
The Trump administration last week announced the repeal of the ‘endangerment finding’ - the 2009 determination that climate change threatens...
Who Wields Power Now?: Money, Movements and the Future of Climate
Who shapes climate action when old systems begin to strain? And where does power really sit - with governments, financial institutions, comm...
Power, Money and Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping Climate Action
Who really holds power in the climate transition? And how do money, politics, and influence shape the pace of change? In this episode, Chris...