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Climate Curious — 330 episodes

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1

How to write a constitutional climate amendment on your notes app, with Lake Liao

2

Can markets beat illegal mining in the Andean Amazon?

3

What cacao can teach us about protecting the Amazon, with Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter

4

How the prisoner’s dilemma can reveal climate priorities

5

How to make shipping part of the climate solution, with Joojin Kim

6

How Nigeria is leading a repair transition, not just an energy one, with Vincent Egoro

7

How to unlock billions for climate and stay chill, with Jennifer Kitt

8

Why climate doesn't need better solutions, it needs bigger bets, with Jennifer Kitt

9

How $147m supported citizens across America doing what most pundits said was impossible: ending the reign of King Coal, with Bruce Nilles

10

What the end of 'King Coal' means for Big Oil & Gas, with Bruce Nilles

11

Are you ready to lead your town through an extreme weather event? With the game designers behind ‘The Future For Beginners’

12

Who are the incrementalists? with Dana R. Fisher

13

How to move public outrage into systemic action, with Dana R. Fisher

14

The secret life of glaciers, with Dr M Jackson

15

Why ebola and hantavirus are also climate warnings, with Dr. Neil Vora

16

Could this literary genre help protect the planet? With author Helen Phillips

17

How to feed a starving glacier, with glaciologist M Jackson

18

Why I blew up a dam on my birthday, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

19

How history's biggest wild salmon restoration project in the Klamath River happened, with Amy Bowers Cordalis

20

Why chemists are conservationists too! With Tim Cernak

21

Feel lost in eco-anxiety? Find your way with social scientist Katharine K. Wilkinson’s Climate Wayfinding method

22

How the oldest bees on earth gained legal rights, with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza

23

How Iroro Tanshi took on Nigeria’s wildfires to save this rare bat species

24

What really went down at the Supreme Court: the “Finch ruling”

25

How a local petition became a national climate victory, with Sarah Finch of the “Finch ruling”

26

How a streamer built an online wildlife sanctuary, with Maya Higa

27

Why nature isn’t “other” it’s “mother”, with Paul Hawken

28

Why the full truth of the climate crisis starts with grief, with Paul Hawken

29

How stingless bees made your morning coffee, with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza

30

How to wayfind without a map, with Katharine K. Wilkinson

31

How to trade hope for courage, with Paul Hawken

32

Why we need bugs, not bots, with Kalpana Arias

33

How “Glitch Feminism” can bring us closer together, with Kalpana Arias

34

Who gave Big Oil a backstage pass? With Tori Tsui

35

Which pop stars are bursting Big Oil’s culture bubble? With Tori Tsui

36

How to close climate loopholes – in court, with Tessa Khan

37

The UK’s biggest climate wins – and what comes next, with Tessa Khan

38

Climate OG on how to stay optimistic in a “down cycle”

39

Why climate action is a combat sport, with Laurence Tubiana

40

What Big Oil doesn’t want you to know about plastic, with journalist Beth Gardiner

41

The court ruling Big Oil didn’t see coming, with Melinda Janki

42

The 2025 climate success story no-one saw coming: China

43

Why climate solutions fail the poor – and how to fix it, with Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo

44

What is black carbon? With science communicator & YouTuber, Simon Clark

45

Climate success stories of the year 2025, with Fix The News’ Angus Hervey

46

Where did Britain’s goddesses go? With Kim Willis

47

How to live without fear, with Mo Brings Plenty

48

How Mongolia is pushing for the right to clean air, with Enkhuun Byambadorj

49

The stories that defined what it means to be Climate Curious in 2025

50

The real cost of climate change? $400 billion, with Harjeet Singh

51

Separating oil and gas TV fact from fiction in ‘Landman’, with Debbie Gordon and Lucy Stone

52

The end of new oil and gas exploration in the UK? with Tessa Khan

53

What ‘Landman’ gets right about wind farms, gas leaks, and life on a West Texas oil field, with Debbie Gordon and Lucy Stone

54

How to tell between real and fake carbon capture, with James Mwangi

55

Mixtape: COP30 takeaways

56

Life-writing through the eyes of nature, with poet Riley Faulds

57

What happens when you tell Big Oil “no”? With Melinda Janki

58

How doctors are prescribing for climate conflicts, with Dr. Omnia El Omrani

59

Decarbonising Japan whilst honouring the scars of its past, with Kimiko Hirata

60

LIVE | How culture makes climate irresistible, with Daze Aghaji

61

Why loss and damage funding matters, with Harjeet Singh

62

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.4 Meet the capable guardians fighting green crime, with Dr. Julia Shaw

63

Why charismatic megafaunas are vital ecosystem engineers, with Dr. Julia Shaw

64

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.3 The Shuidong Syndicate case and the psychology of wildlife trafficking, with Dr. Julia Shaw

65

How psychological ownership can reduce environmental crime, with Dr. Julia Shaw

66

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.2 The murders of Maria and Zé Cláudio and the psychology of eco-hitmen, with Dr. Julia Shaw

67

What do we do with environmental criminals? With Dr. Julia Shaw

68

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.1 Dieselgate and the psychology of corporate green con men, with Dr. Julia Shaw

69

What is a green crime? With Dr. Julia Shaw

70

How biochar is turning waste into wealth, with James Mwangi

71

How climate resilience can help end poverty, with Esther Duflo

72

LIVE | How a 20,000km life-sized animal puppet stampede makes climate impacts urgent, with The Herds’ David Lan

73

How Kenya is harnessing the heat from under its feet (geothermal energy!), with Dr. Anna Mwangi

74

LIVE | Big Oil: What can we do to reclaim the story?

75

Meet the women farmers adapting to climate change, with Alison Ward, Noha Ali, and Samah Salah

76

The story behind climate’s most powerful movement to date, with Xiye Bastida

77

The beauty queen building climate resilience in Kenya, with Dorcas Naishorua

78

How gamers are playing for the planet

79

How to scale up courageous climate journalism, with mathematician turned climate war reporter Anjan Sundaram

80

How to shoot sustainable sci-fi, with Dr. Itandehui Jansen

81

Can we refreeze the Arctic? With Brad Ack

82

Who are the real ‘Climate Criminals?’ With filmmakers Becky Burchell and Sophie Austin

83

How to tap into your intuition: a live meditation with Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir

84

Cleaning up the cloud, with Vijay Karia

85

Baby buffalos, Badlands, and breaking barriers: Hollywood actor Mo Brings Plenty on living without fear

86

How an indigenous water professor is making waves in the courtroom

87

Why climate solutions are more abundant than you might think

88

How earth lawyers are making nature’s rights legally binding

89

How space science is uplifting farmers on the ground

90

The Herds hit London: are you ready?

91

How The Herds is bringing nature's struggle to the streets

92

Why fusion energy is closer than you think

93

How land use maps are empowering eco-farmers

94

How Atmos is keeping climate storytelling in vogue

95

How a rainforest toxicologist is cleaning up gold mining in the Amazon

96

How baby corals are reviving reefs

97

How a social worker and an aquatic ecologist protected Europe’s last wild river

98

How doctors are healing more than just patients

99

How to find your climate footing (even if you're slipping)

100

Why pangolins need a cooler planet

101

How AI is decoding coral reefs

102

Why bioplastics are key to a sustainable plastic future

103

Climate Mixtape: Earth Day 2025

104

How to ignite your Natural Connection

105

How sea otters are protecting the world

106

Can the far-right stall climate progress?

107

What are sources and sinks?

108

Big Oil and the real story behind ‘The End’

109

How Uru Uru team is cleaning up a sacred lake in Bolivia

110

Why climate leadership isn’t about fancy job titles

111

How the LA fires brought disability justice to light

112

How climate crashed the Super Bowl

113

How eco-rapping is healing the planet

114

Why time’s up for pollution promoters

115

How oil executives use slavery’s playbook

116

How history unlocks climate solutions for today

117

Why haven't power lines changed since 1908?

118

How satellites spy on rainforests, for good

119

How satellites are secret superheroes for rainforests

120

What are transition minerals?

121

Why we need new climate stories

122

The inequality of mineral mining – and how to fix it

123

Why parents are taking a love-led approach to climate action

124

Climate Mixtape: 2025 vision board

125

How does cancel culture show up in climate?

126

How communities are taking control of local food production using aeroponics

127

Why Africa’s workforce are climate leaders, not just labourers

128

How not to get cancelled (or cancel others) over climate

129

How solar panels became the darling of the climate movement

130

How methane ‘goggles’ are making pollution visible

131

Upskilling newsrooms to tell the story of climate change

132

Why a violence prevention pro is turning her attention to climate misinformation

133

How people power can help prepare us for climate shocks

134

What’s Ragnarök got to do with climate change?

135

How the Pacific Climate Warriors took back their story

136

What do zombies and vampires have to do with climate change?

137

Why the UK government refuses to defend the UK's biggest undeveloped oilfield

138

What are regenerative cultures?

139

BOSS series: What resilience looks like in Vanuatu

140

What the closure of the UK’s last coal plant means

141

How Ned’s Forest inspires a new model of environmental stewardship

142

How a soul forest is transforming Hyderabad

143

Climate Quickie: Why photography is a powerful climate storytelling tool

144

How electric boats are turning the tide on polluted waterways

145

Why tackling climate change is art, not just science

146

Climate Quickie: Why methane must go

147

Climate Quickie: The extraordinary life of monarch butterflies

148

Climate Quickie: How community-led art is sparking climate conversations in Florida

149

Climate Quickie: The hidden beauty in climate data

150

Climate Quickie: Why climate wars go unreported

151

How storytelling can honour forgotten climate conflicts

152

Where does all the climate funding go?

153

What’s going on with fracking in Canada?

154

Climate Quickie: How the tide turned on fossil fuels

155

Climate Quickie: What’s going on in Madagascar?

156

Climate Quickie: The firefighter changing wildfire injustice

157

The hidden injustice behind wildfire fighting in California

158

Climate Quickie: Why we need more good news climate stories

159

Climate Quickie: Why happiness is key to climate action

160

Climate Quickie: Why NATURE is 2024’s biggest breakout popstar

161

Climate Quickie: Why we’re all climate correspondents

162

"If Not Us Then Who?” Why we need ancestral wisdom in all climate decision making

163

Climate Mixtape: 2024 Earth Day joy

164

Climate Quickie: The app tackling air pollution on the London Underground

165

Why the insurance industry could be the key to ending fossil fuels

166

Climate Quickie: Why city birdwatching is still having a moment

167

Why pollution hits women and girls hardest

168

Climate Quickie: Why a hotter planet means more malaria. Here’s the solution.

169

Climate Quickie: How do you photograph air pollution?

170

Climate Quickie: Live, love, laugh climate change?

171

Is there anything funny about climate change?

172

Climate Quickie: The furry creature breathing life back into London’s wetlands

173

BOSS Series: How solar distillation farms are improving Pacific Islanders’ water security

174

BOSS Series: How super corals have potential to revive coral reefs

175

How to play for a better world

176

New year, new climate positivity?

177

BOSS series: Tuvalu’s climate superpower

178

Lights, camera, eco-action! Climate TV watch list

179

Climate mixtape: COP28 takeaways

180

Protecting ancient forests from becoming pizza boxes

181

Climate Quickie: Protecting ancient forests from becoming pizza boxes

182

BOSS series: Why low-lying Pacific nation Tuvalu is a boss

183

Climate mixtape: A COP28 out?

184

Climate Quickie: Meet the invisible climate villain

185

Climate Quickie: How to market climate, from the 3 billion ad man

186

Climate marketing professor: love is the most effective message

187

Climate Quickie: Can climate change be funny?

188

Climate Quickie: Why protecting rainforests might lead to less climate change and fewer pandemics

189

Climate Quickie: What do zombies, vampires, and ‘The Last Of Us’ have to do with climate change?

190

Halloween special: Zombies, vampires and fungal horror shows, with disease detective Neil Vora

191

What's in and what's out? Climate Week NYC takeaways

192

Introducing Season 5: Climate Curious

193

Climate Quickie: Why climate change needs a rebrand

194

Climate Quickie: Are you joining the Countdown?

195

How do we flip the script on climate fatigue? Make it personal!

196

Climate Quickie: How Indonesia’s capital city move is displacing Indigenous Peoples

197

Climate Quickie: Why Londoners want Oily Money Out

198

Climate Quickie: Why drag artistry is a trojan horse for climate action

199

Climate Quickie: Meet the Latinas championing climate justice in Chile

200

Climate Quickie: How a climate-resilient cacao farm in the Philippines is regenerating people and planet

201

Climate Quickie: The one fashion strategy to save the planet

202

Climate Quickie: How Shanxi can break free from its coal addiction

203

Climate Quickie: How Uruguay shifted its energy sources to 98% renewable

204

Climate Quickie: What is Indigenous forest guardianship?

205

Climate Quickie: How mini-grids are making energy accessible in Sub-Saharan Africa

206

I can be your hero, baby – how we smash the climate activist hero stereotype

207

Climate Quickie: Oppenheimer – What's the deal with nuclear energy?

208

Climate Quickie: How you can pay climate activists a fair wage, in one click

209

Climate Quickie: How Pride sashayed away from oily cash

210

Climate Quickie: How Big Oil plays the blame game

211

Climate Quickie: Pride in the Wild – What is queer ecology?

212

Climate Quickie: How we can stop deep-sea mining before it begins

213

Climate Quickie: How deleting emails ignited a climate movement

214

Climate Quickie: How to get a climate career

215

Climate Quickie: How cognitive dissonance impacts your climate agency

216

Climate Quickie: Why cookin’ on gas, ain’t all that

217

Want to green your home? Start with your stove.

218

Climate Quickie: How two sisters defend a rainforest with a pair of beauty scissors and a camera

219

Climate Quickie: Why carbon offsets suck

220

Climate Quickie: Why bugs are travelling on super pollen highways

221

Climate Quickie: How Bali trip inspired waste-clearing ocean robot business

222

Climate Quickie: Which London tube has the best air quality?

223

Climate Quickie: Which fashion brands have a fossil fuel problem?

224

Climate Quickie: IPCC report – hope we can take

225

Climate mixtape: IPCC reflections

226

Climate Quickie: How video games inspire climate action

227

Climate Quickie: What is space trash?

228

Climate Quickie: Is there a right way to protest climate change?

229

Climate Quickie: A meditation to connect with Earth

230

Climate Quickie: Why mindfulness is key to climate action

231

Climate Quickie: Why climate has a diversity tokenism problem

232

How we build resilience in our global agrifood systems

233

Climate Quickie: What is the climate positive movement?

234

What do buildings have to do with climate action?

235

Climate Quickie: What is an eco-artist?

236

Why carbon-free electricity is a no brainer

237

Climate Quickie: How to get involved with veganism this Veganuary

238

Why the way we talk about climate vulnerable nations needs to change

239

Climate Quickie: Why climate doomism needs to stop

240

How your Netflix and chill can save the world

241

Climate Quickie: Why your energy bill is sky high

242

Why a wellbeing economy is the future, and how we build it

243

Climate Quickie: Why gender equality is the missing piece of the climate puzzle

244

Climate Quickie: How to have climate convos during the holidays

245

How young people are fighting back against youthwashing

246

Climate Quickie: Why fossil fuels were a dirty word at COP

247

Climate Quickie: How to make eco dough

248

How women can save (for) the planet

249

Climate Quickie: What happens in seven years’ time?

250

How a database is speeding up fossil fuel’s extinction

251

Climate Quickie: Why climate change is a wicked problem

252

Climate Quickie: How to be an intersectional environmentalist

253

How the climate crisis drives child marriage

254

Climate Quickie: Why climate change is code red for girls

255

Why gender equality is good for the climate

256

Climate Quickie: What COP means for Big Ocean States

257

What is an intersectional environmentalist?

258

Climate Quickie: What’s the deal with COP27?

259

How a grassroots rebellion shut down big coal

260

Climate Quickie: What is a just transition?

261

How storm-proof solar farms can help Hurricane Alley

262

Climate Quickie: How climate journalists are protecting our future

263

How to find your climate joy

264

Climate Quickie: What is nuclear energy? And is it any good?

265

How satellites and AI can help keep 1.5 alive

266

Climate Quickie: Which Netflix shows to watch (climate edition)

267

How we go beyond greenwashing

268

Climate Quickie: How to write a climate bill

269

How to make big oil go bust

270

Climate Quickie: Why you're hardwired to dislike climate change

271

How to solve the cost of living crisis

272

Climate Quickie: How to have your burger and eat it too

273

Coming Soon: Season Four

274

How life in plastic can still be fantastic

275

How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear

276

Why creativity is climate’s uncut gem

277

How inequality affects the air we breathe

278

What queerness can teach the climate movement

279

Pride Climate Quickie: Why climate’s got a diversity problem

280

Pride Climate Quickie: What is queer ecology?

281

Climate Quickie: What is artivism?

282

Climate Quickie: Why Guyana is a climate hero

283

Climate Quickie: What it feels like to sue the government

284

Earth Day Climate Quickie: How to handle your eco-anxiety

285

Climate Quickie: Why the climate emergency is a race issue

286

Climate Quickie: How your gas stove is hurting you

287

Climate Quickie: Why climate change is a wicked problem

288

What really happens at a climate conference?

289

Best of Season 3

290

How the EV dream is becoming a reality

291

Climate Quickie: How big oil play the blame game

292

Why methane reduction is the ultimate climate hack

293

What farmers in India are doing to protect their crops from heat waves

294

Climate Quickie: Why guilt and shame don’t drive climate action

295

How climate tech got its sexy back

296

Why talking is the most important thing you can do to fight climate change

297

Why oceans are heroes, not victims

298

Why the climate crisis is a health crisis

299

How seaweed reduces cow burps

300

Climate Quickie: How to prevent climate activism burnout

301

Why climate has a youthwashing problem

302

How cities are redefining what it means to be green

303

Climate Quickie: What even is COP?

304

Why fossil fuels are the new weapons of mass destruction

305

Coming Soon: Season 3

306

Climate Quickie: What anti-apartheid can teach the climate movement

307

Climate Quickie: Why climate change is unfair

308

How we can fight air pollution, together

309

Climate Quickie: Why cheap food is killing us

310

How culture can help us win the climate war, p.2

311

How culture can help us win the climate war, p.1

312

Climate Quickie: What is queer ecology?

313

What’s going on with fish in West Africa?

314

Climate Quickie: Is a green economy going to cost too much?

315

How the Guyanese people are fighting big oil

316

How green money can make the world go round

317

How to be a global food citizen

318

Why we need to stop hating on bugs

319

Why Mother Nature is a drag queen

320

Coming Soon: Season 2

321

Best of Season 1

322

Why what you wear is about more than fashion

323

Why the law can save the planet

324

Why you feel anxious about climate change (and what to do about it)

325

Why climate justice can’t happen without racial justice

326

Why there’s much more to climate action than reducing your carbon footprint

327

Why our cities must ditch the exhaust pipe

328

Why your gas stove has to go

329

Why climate change is everyone's business

330

Coming Soon: Climate Curious