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...
22 Aug 202430min
Healthy? Extreme heat could still threaten your life
This week on Zero, reporter Akshat Rathi sits down with Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a leading expert on the health imp...
15 Aug 202430min
Wires carrying twice the power show the future: The Grid Series
Upgrading the grid for a net-zero world isn’t just a matter of building new infrastructure. Yes, miles of additional cables will be needed, as will more transformers, more substations and more enginee...
8 Aug 202429min
The unstoppable march toward electrification: The Grid Series
As the world moves away from fossil fuels, the electricity grid will need to be able to handle a greater and greater load. In the second installment of Zero’s grid series, Akshat Rathi sits down with ...
1 Aug 202428min
Upgrading the world’s biggest machine: The Grid Series
Even before we turn on a light switch or plug an appliance into an electric outlet, the atoms that power our daily life have traveled a long journey across the grid to reach our homes. And to meet the...
25 Juli 202434min
The climate activist trying to change banks from the inside
Lucie Pinson is a climate activist focused on the banks that fund fossil fuel projects. But she doesn’t march, chant, picket corporate headquarters, or glue herself to the road. Instead, she and her t...
18 Juli 202428min
Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions
At the Bloomberg Green Festival, Akshat Rathi sits down with voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams and Ari Matusiak, who leads the nonprofit Rewiring America. Together, Abrams and Matuisiak are trying ...
12 Juli 202428min
An oil lobbyist gets the Shakespearean treatment in ‘Kyoto’
In fractured times, what does it take to reach agreement? That’s the question writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson set out to explore in a new play about the drama of climate negotiations. Kyoto, now ...
9 Juli 202426min
