Best of: COP30 president on how Brazil is looking to supercharge climate action
Plans are already underway for COP30 to pick up the baton and tackle COP29's unfinished business. The 2025 climate conference is set to take place in Belem, Brazil, a gateway to the Amazon rainforest....
27 Jan 202528min
To understand Trump's climate moves in his second term, look to the Reagan years
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, Akshat Rathi speaks to Yale historian Paul Sabin about whether recent presidential history might hold some lessons on what to expect from the Trump administ...
23 Jan 202531min
Will the LA fires unleash a wave of climate migrants?
As the blazes in Los Angeles continue to burn, those who have lost their homes are contending with the immediate need for shelter– and difficult questions about whether or not to rebuild in the fire z...
16 Jan 202535min
Odd Lots: This is how China builds so much nuclear power
In the US right now, there is a lot of talk about a so-called "nuclear revival," though it remains to be seen whether that translates into action. Meanwhile, China has built 37 nuclear reactors in the...
13 Jan 202547min
If 1.5C is dead, what happens next?
In December, Europe’s Copernicus weather service announced that it was “virtually certain” that 2024 would be the hottest year ever. What’s more, the global average temperature last year appears to ha...
9 Jan 202522min
Kim Stanley Robinson imagines utopia in 2025
Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines the future for a living. And the future is very much upon us. Robinson’s seminal 2020 novel Ministry for the Future opens in the year 2025. Robinso...
2 Jan 202531min
Best of: How the humble refrigerator changed the world
The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 billion cubic feet of refrigerated space; that’s 150 Empire State Buildings’ worth of freezers. Now, t...
26 Dec 202431min
TED Talks Daily : Capitalism broke the climate. Now it can fix it
Capitalism can be blamed for worsening the climate crisis, says journalist Akshat Rathi, but it can also be used to drive the solutions to fix it. In this episode of TED Talks Daily, recorded at the B...
19 Dec 202413min
