Cheapest Energy in History. Still Heading for 3 Degrees?
Solar power now costs a thousandth of what it did in 1976. Batteries are down more than ninety percent in a decade. By the logic of economic...
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20 of 405 episodesEurope’s Summer of Fire: The New Normal?
Europe is burning. Wildfires are still alight in the hills outside Bordeaux and the countryside west of Madrid. More than 300,000 people acr...
China, COP31 and Chagos: What’s happening behind the headlines?
In the nine hours after the Los Angeles wildfires, before the climate movement could get its shoes on, the narrative was being written. Thro...
Rosebank, Cambo, and the Conversation Christiana Never Got to Have
Five years ago, a 21-year-old activist stood on a TED stage next to the CEO of Shell and accused him of making ‘evil decisions’ wreaking ‘de...
Whose Side Is the Law On? How the Courts Became a Climate Battleground
"Even if you are small in this society, there is something you can do." Those are the words of Trixy Elle, a mother and a fisherwoman from t...
Is It Over? A Direct Answer to Climate Despair
Is it already too late? If you follow the climate crisis closely, despair is a reasonable and rational response to what you're looking at. T...
London Cooking: A Climate Action Week, a Resigning PM, and the Future of Climate Diplomacy
London Climate Action Week doesn't usually have to compete with extreme weather. But this year, the case for climate action was abundantly c...
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...
Extreme 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...