From environmental science and climate justice podcasts to investigative series detailing how the climate crisis is already shaping our lives and what we can do about it, these are our latest environmental podcast recommendations.
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1. Earth Radio
From the frontlines of the climate crisis to the halls of global policy, Earth Radio is a podcast by Earth.Org bringing you a roundup of the week’s most important climate stories, in five minutes. Join our host Rebekah Hendricks every weekend as she uncovers the stories behind our headlines and hear from the scientists, activists, and experts leading the charge in adaptation and resilience.
2. Climate Rising
Harvard Business School’s Climate Rising explores how some of the world’s biggest business leaders are approaching the devastating effects of climate change. It unites business and policy experts with HBS faculty to exchange perspectives on the actions businesses are taking, can take, and ought to take in addressing the issue of climate change. Climate Rising delves into the numerous obstacles and prospects that climate change presents for managers, including choices regarding their business locations, technological innovations, strategic approaches concerning products, marketing, customer interactions, and policies.
3. Outrage + Optimism
Co-hosted by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, who oversaw the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and CDP founder, Paul Dickinson, Outrage + Optimism explores the stories behind the headlines on climate change, talking to the change-makers turning challenges into opportunities. They delight in progress, question greenwash and get to grips with the difficult issues – sharing it all with their listeners along the way.
4. NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast
Curious Universe – an official NASA podcast hosted by astrophysicist and head of NASA’s Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory Padi Boyd and audio producer Jacob Pinter – brings you mind-blowing science and space adventures you won’t find anywhere else. Explore the cosmos alongside astronauts, scientists, engineers, and other top NASA experts who are achieving remarkable feats in science, space exploration, and aeronautics. Learn something new about the wild and wonderful universe we share. All you need to get started is a little curiosity.
5. A Matter of Degrees
In A Matter of Degrees, Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change – and the tools we have to fix it. With the help of dozens of climate leaders, they tell stories of bold solutions and groundbreaking campaigns, stories of misdeeds and corruption and efforts to stop them, and stories of people doing their best to be a part of the solution.
6. Earth to Humans
This podcast gives more information about global conservation efforts, more research about their impacts and more ways to be an advocate for the planet. An interview series, this podcast features top experts in conservation, wildlife and environmental justice.
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7. Climate Court Voices
Climate Court Voices is a podcast dedicated to shedding light on pivotal climate litigation battles worldwide and amplifying the voices of those at the forefront of climate justice and environmental activism. The podcast features interviews with climate activists and lawyers behind key climate court battles, from landmark court battles arising in response to US President Donald Trump’s anti-climate agenda to South Korea’s first constitutional claim on climate change.
8. When Science Finds a Way
Wellcome’s acclaimed podcast hosted by Alisha Wainwright explores the human stories behind science in action. The fourth season, which ran over the summer, includes episodes on extreme heat and mental health, artificial intelligence, and fungi.
9. Yale Climate Connections
Hosted by Dr Anthony Leiserowitz of Yale University, this podcast is a daily one-and-a-half-minute investigative podcast detailing how the climate crisis is already shaping our lives and what we can do about it. From fossil fuels to extreme weather, clean energy to public health, and more, this is your daily dose of hope. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, NGOs, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices.
10. The Food Fight
In The Food Fight, one of the few food-related environmental podcasts on Earth.Org’s list, Matt Eastland and Lucy Wallace examine the biggest challenges facing the food system, and the innovations and entrepreneurs looking to solve them. Recent episodes look at how coffee waste can power a sustainable future, and whether 3D printing could be the future of food.
11. The Nature Podcast
Produced by Nature Journal, the podcast brings listeners the best stories from the world of science each week. Topics range from astronomy to zoology and highlight the most exciting research from each issue of Nature Journal. Featuring interviews with the scientists behind the results, the podcast provides in-depth analysis from Nature’s journalists and editors.
12. The Climate Briefing
From the Energy, Environment and Resources Programme at Chatham House and hosted by Anna Åberg and Bhargabi Bharadwaj of Chatham House, The Climate Briefing explores the major issues that shape UN climate negotiations and international climate politics. Recurring topics include climate finance, artificial intelligence and the just transition.
13. What Could Go Right?
What if instead of being on the brink of disaster, we were on the cusp of a better world? No one can deny the challenges the world faces, from pandemics to climate change to authoritarianism. But pessimism and despair are too easy a response. Each week on What Could Go Right?, Progress Network Founder Zachary Karabell and Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas convene a diverse panel of experts to discuss the central issues of our era, including sustainability, polarisation, work, and the economy, and make the case for a brighter future. They emerge from their conversations with a counterintuitive but informed take: progress is on its way.
14. The Climate Pod
The Climate Pod, hosted by Brock Benefiel and Ty Benefiel, is a podcast featuring interviews and discussions with leading experts about the science, politics, economics, activism, culture and social justice issues surrounding the climate crisis.
15. Boiling Point
Boiling Point is a weekly podcast produced by LA Times Studios that dives deep with scientists, energy leaders, legislators, activists and journalists who are experts on today’s climate challenges and solutions. They discuss everything from electric cars to renewable energy to the difficulties of phasing out fossil fuels.
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