Secretive lawsuits by fossil fuel companies could hold back climate action
A new barrier to climate action is opening up in an obscure and secretive part of international trade law which fossil fuel investors are using to sue countries if policy decisions go against them. We...
6 Okt 202241min
Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year near total freeze on psychedelic resear...
29 Sep 202233min
Thwaites Glacier: the melting, Antarctic monster of sea level rise
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is one of many bodies of ice that are melting, but this massive glacier is uniquely important when it comes to sea level rise. In this episode we talk to three exper...
22 Sep 202238min
Keeping buildings cool as it gets hotter
For thousands of years, people living in parts of the world used to high temperatures have deployed traditional passive cooling techniques in the way they design their buildings. But "modern" styles o...
15 Sep 202233min
The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for
M was a double agent during the cold war, working on the side of the west. But when the Iron Curtain fell, he felt abandoned by the secret services he risked his life for. M's story is told by Eleni B...
27 Juli 202235min
What did dinosaurs actually look like?
As the latest Jurassic World Dominion film hits cinemas, we’re re-running a story originally aired in 2021 about what dinosaurs really looked liked – and how scientists' understanding of their appeara...
16 Juni 202223min
A brief update
A little update about The Conversation Weekly podcast and what we'll be up to over the next few months.If you've not yet completed our listener survey, we'd love to hear what you think about the show....
1 Juni 202252s
India and Pakistan heatwave is a sign of worse to come
India and Pakistan have been sweltering under an unprecedented heatwave, the severity of which scientists attribute to climate change. In this episode we explore how much worse heatwaves in the region...
26 Maj 202243min
