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#138 - December 7 2025
In her new book, Judith Enck debunks the myth of single-use plastic recycling. And two of the worst perpetrators are our old foes.
#127 - August 7 2024
You can’t blame people for being in the dark about climate change, the basics are not well understood, and falsehoods and misinformation abound. Which is unfortunate because the facts are really not that complicated.
#126 - July 1 2024
New studies show the effects of ingesting microplastics from plastic bottles could be more damaging than originally thought.
#125 - June 9 2024
We’ve long criticized Pepsi and Coca Cola for the pernicious impacts of their products on human health – but new studies show they present an even greater threat than previously realized.
#124 - May 1 2024
Two years ago we slammed Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, as the dirtiest Ivy League school. A recent announcement suggests that perhaps they heard us.
#122 - March 25 2024
Last week, we attended the world’s most important global energy conference along with 8,400 other delegates, but the people who really matter are the ones who were not there.
#121 - March 19 2024
We’re reporting from CERAWeek in Texas this week and the event kicked off badly for the climate when profits-over-people champion Darren Woods, Exxon CEO, took the stage.
#120 - March 17 2024
Vaclav Smil and Michael Cembalest are respected observers of climate and the energy transition. Both have recently written an extremely damning diagnosis of the planet’s future health but, we say, neither goes far enough.
#119 - December 17 2023
The headlines have proclaimed an ‘historic’ agreement coming out of COP28 but should they be believed?
#118 - December 10 2023
In his latest report from COP28, our Senior Editor David Kirkpatrick reports on the battle raging at the heart of the meeting.
#117 - December 7 2023
Our Senior Editor, David Kirkpatrick, reports on mixed emotions in his third dispatch from COP28 in Dubai.
#115 - December 3 2023
Our Senior Editor David Kirkpatrick’s first dispatch from an eventful COP 28 in Dubai.
#114 - November 15 2023
The CEO of one of the world’s largest oil companies is due to lead the world’s most important climate summit, COP 28. How is that going to work out?
#113 - November 8 2023
Old and young Americans have generally diverging points of view but if younger people changed their attitude to one thing, it could change everything.
#112 - October 8 2023
The climate and capitalism are inextricably entwined, but surely in a bad way, right?
#108 - July 24 2023
Surprisingly, in the state that provides the bulk of US fossil fuel production, it’s not fossil fuels keeping the grid going this summer.
#107 Video - July 9 2023
People say the Chinese build a coal-fired power plant every day of the year, so why should the US do anything about climate change?
#106 - June 5 2023
We run down the four elements of climate change that led us on our journey of discovery.