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The landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 gave the world a shared target for halting climate change: that global warming should stop well short of 2 deg...
- Added: Aug 13, 2024
- Length: 15:26
Today, companies are storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide underground every year to prevent this climate pollution from warming the planet. I...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 12:22
Is hydrogen fuel a climate solution? That depends on how you produce it. Dr. Emre Gençer of the MIT Energy Initiative joins MIT's TILclimate podcas...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 13:44
Just 20 years ago, hydrogen cars and battery electric cars (EVs) were pretty evenly matched as clean alternatives to gas-powered cars. But today, E...
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 10:08
Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 06:41
In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 07:03
We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
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If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 13:08
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 14:21
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:02
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You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 13:36
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After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 03:21
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 32:34
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 22:21
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
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Scientists on Martha's vineyard investigate how to save bats from the deadly White Nose Fungus, which has been killing bats across North America.
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 09:32
Learn how the Emotion Roadmap helps leaders and others to get changes in behavior.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 45:01
Worried about an upcoming conversation about your performance? Are you a leader who has a number of performance evaluation discussions in the next ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 54:01
A generational discussion concerning the knowledge and changes in medical understanding of Sickle Cell disease.
- Added: Nov 27, 2016
- Length: 51:28
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 58:30
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In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...
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- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 06:55
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a debilitating mental health condition that affects 1-2% of us. Now neuroscientists at University of London have ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: 05:11
A generational discussion on surveillance issues
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00