To the ice sheets with a polar scientist
Dr. Sarah Das, a Scientist Emeritus at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, takes us behind the scenes: into the world of glacier science,...
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20 of 82 episodesPolar ice in a warming world
The frozen parts of our planet—from sprawling polar ice sheets and floating sea ice to mountain glaciers and frigid soils—face profound risk...
A hard look at steel
Antoine Allanore, a professor of metallurgy at MIT, explains how CO2 became so entrenched in the chemistry of steelmaking—and the creative w...
An economist’s guide to climate change
Solutions to climate change, like building clean energy, come with a price tag. But unchecked warming also brings serious costs. As we make...
Re-air and update: Carbon pricing
What exactly is a carbon price, and how does it work? To prepare for a new episode about climate economics, we’re re-airing this season one...
The (micro)grid of the future
Solar panels, batteries, microgrids, and other emerging energy technologies are making it easier than ever before for a community to produce...
The reshuffling of life on Earth
Climate change is putting pressure not only on humans, but also on our fellow species. How can plants, animals, and other living things surv...
Taking Earth’s temperature
The past three years have been the three hottest humanity has ever measured. But who does the measuring, and how? Dr. Samantha Burgess, of t...
The nuclear price tag
Nuclear power offers huge amounts of round-the-clock energy free of climate-warming pollution. In the United States, it’s also become very e...
Marshes, mangroves, meadows
Salt marshes humming with insects and birds. Mangrove forests with tangled, arching roots. Seagrass meadows that blanket the ocean floor. Th...
New season, new name!
The eighth season of MIT’s climate change podcast starts next week, and we’ve got some news! TILclimate is now Ask MIT Climate. It’s part of...
Update: Where we've been and where we're going
We’re dropping into your feed to share the news that our founding host, Laur Hesse Fisher, is departing MIT and TILclimate. In this episode,...
Transmission: Power to the people
Power lines may not look as high-tech and inspiring as a wind turbine or a solar field. But as MIT’s Joshua Hodge explains, these lines—and...
Cleaner air
Here at TILclimate, we’re often asked about the health and environmental effects of materials in solar panels and batteries. But what if the...
Dealing with dead batteries
The world’s demand for batteries to power electric vehicles is growing at incredible speed. What will we do with all these batteries when th...
Geothermal: Earth’s infinite clean power
Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a molten stew of metals radiates vast amounts of energy. Prof. Roland Horne, Director of the Stanford Geot...
The great indoors
Modern buildings are complex machines, using heating, cooling and a host of other appliances to turn energy into comfort. But that energy co...
Did climate change do that?
A new type of climate science is allowing us to draw clearer connections between our warming planet, and the extreme weather events this war...
Hasn't the climate changed before?
The Earth has gone through massive climate change before—many times over, in fact!—but human civilization has not. Prof. David McGee, a spec...
Farm to table, with a side of fossil fuels
The way we grow and distribute food today is deeply dependent on fossil fuels, yet that dependence can feel invisible. Sustainable food syst...