A Killing Exposes the Dirty Side of Clean Energy
In the aftermath of a right-wing coup in 2009, Honduras invested in several new clean energy projects, including a hydroelectric dam on a river sacred to the local indigenous population. When activist...
29 Sep 202547min
Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipeline?
Less than a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a series of undersea explosions rocked the Baltic Sea. The target: the Nord Stream pipelines, which supply Russian natural gas to Western Europe...
22 Sep 202537min
The Green Tech Savior That Fooled Wall Street
The urgency of solving the climate crisis makes finding a quick fix very tempting. So a few years ago when Nikola CEO Trevor Milton unveiled a hydrogen-powered truck that only emitted water, companies...
15 Sep 202539min
A Gorilla Massacre in Africa's Oldest National Park
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a massacre of gorillas in Virunga National Park highlights the constant threat of violence from militias, poachers and gangsters. All that stands in their way ...
8 Sep 202539min
Operation Wasteland
For nearly 40 years, New York’s private waste removal industry was the domain of the mob, until an undercover cop risked everything to take it down. The gripping tale of what happened next also raises...
1 Sep 202542min
A Polygamist Cult-Leader’s Billion-Dollar Biofuel Scam
The biggest biofuel scam in U.S. history was committed by the unlikeliest of duos — a polygamist cult-leader and an Armenian mobster. They took one look at our convoluted system of climate regulations...
25 Aug 202549min
The Activist Who Defied Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship
For decades, oil companies like Shell operated with impunity in the Niger River Delta, supported by a string of dictators. Then, an Ogoni activist named Ken Saro-Wiwa became the David to Shell’s Golia...
18 Aug 202547min
Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline
When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have no idea that a shadowy private security contractor called TigerSwan...
11 Aug 202544min
