Climate News Update: New Carbon Majors Report and Swiss Elders' Historic Win
The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at ener...
16 Apr 202441min
Sainte-Soline and the Government Crackdown on France’s Earth Uprisings
In France, the working-class Yellow Vest movement, racial equality groups, and progressive climate activists have joined forces in a multi-racial, cross-class coalition called Earth Uprisings. The res...
3 Apr 202449min
The United States Anti-Renewables Movement, Explained
Isaac Slevin, lead author of Brown University's Against the Wind report on opposition to wind energy on the east coast of the United States, walks us through the opposition and how these anti-renewabl...
20 Mar 202446min
Shell, Oil Colonialism, and the Ongoing Struggle of Nigeria’s Environmental Activists
Decades after the Ogini 9 were executed for opposing Shell's operations, Nigeria continues to grapple with the environmental and political fall out of oil extraction. With Shell shutting down onshore ...
5 Mar 202442min
What Ecuador's Yasuní Referendum Really Means for Oil, in Yasuní and Beyond
Last year, headlines all over the world proclaimed victory for the environment: finally, after more than a decade of promises, there would be no more drilling in Yasuní National Park, a large swath of...
20 Feb 202425min
Introducing: Hazard NYC
Check out the limited-run series Hazard NYC from The City, all about how climate change intersects with Superfund sites in New York City. Start with episode one here. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...
19 Feb 20242min
The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Protest with Dana R. Fisher
Sociologist Dana R. Fisher draws on years of research in her new book, Saving Ourselves, to explore what makes climate protests effective, what a protest "working" even means, where the climate moveme...
13 Feb 202445min
The "EcoTerrorist" Panic
The United States' governments definition of "ecoterrorism" has long fueled backlash against environmental activists. Investigative reporter and Drilled senior editor Alleen Brown uncovers how the Dep...
31 Jan 202438min
