Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Most of our efforts to fight climate change, from electric cars to wind turbines, are about pumping fewer greenhouse gas... Read more
28 Apr 2021
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43mins
Should I still have kids if I’m worried about climate change?
Should I still have kids if I’m worried about climate change?
Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas co-led a study that showed the single most effective thing an individual can do to d... Read more
21 Apr 2021
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1hr 2mins
Engineering our way out of the climate crisis
Engineering our way out of the climate crisis
In an ideal world, cutting carbon emissions would be enough to stop global warming. But after dithering for decades, the... Read more
14 Apr 2021
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35mins
Unexplainable
Unexplainable
Unexplainable is a new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know. Each week, the team looks at the most fascinatin... Read more
16 Mar 2021
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28mins
Rethinking meat
Rethinking meat
How can we convince people to change their relationship with meat?Melanie Joy has been grappling with this question for ... Read more
4 Nov 2020
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21mins
Can we raise better beef?
Can we raise better beef?
Beef cattle take a huge toll on the environment. In Brazil, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions comes from ranching... Read more
28 Oct 2020
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24mins
How to prevent a factory farmed pandemic
How to prevent a factory farmed pandemic
What if the next pandemic comes, not from wet markets overseas, but from our own factory farms? Martha Nelson, who studi... Read more
21 Oct 2020
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24mins
These bacteria wear chicken shoes
These bacteria wear chicken shoes
Right now, we can fight off a wide range of bacterial infections using antibiotics. But those antibiotics are becoming i... Read more
14 Oct 2020
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23mins
Life on the fast line
Life on the fast line
Workers in meatpacking plants already process our pigs and beef and chickens extremely fast, but recently, there’s been ... Read more
7 Oct 2020
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25mins
Chicken Big
Chicken Big
In 1992, Craig Watts got into growing chickens for Perdue Farms because he was told he could turn a good profit. Instead... Read more
30 Sep 2020
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28mins