America’s grid battery revolution
12:33 | China is often held up as leading the way in renewable energy, but it’s actually the USA that has most enthusiastically embraced battery energy storage to help stabilize the electricity grid.
Atomic energy, climate, and Russia
28:25 | The rising global temperature must be restricted to well below a two-degree increase. Is nuclear power the new game changer for achieving this ambitious goal?
We Actually Have a Shot at Stopping the Climate Crisis
6:57 | How is the US going to reach net zero by 2050? That’s the question Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, director of the Office of Science for the US Department of Energy, is urgently trying to answer.
Climate change in Florida
12:25 | The coastal waters off Florida’s dream beaches are becoming a nightmare: Temperatures have topped 37 degrees Celsius, killing corals. The extremely high water temperatures are a consequence of both climate change and the weather phenomenon known as El Niño.
Detroit’s Climate Crisis — and How to Build a Resilient Future Everywhere
9:56 | How can cities become resilient to the shocks of climate change? As a leading force behind Detroit’s ongoing revitalization, Anika Goss spends a lot of time thinking about this question.
The melting ice of the Arctic (1/2)
42:25 | Soon the Arctic will be ice-free in summer. While many are concerned about the consequences for the global climate, countries like Russia and the US, as well as China and Canada see an ice-free Arctic as an opportunity.
A Creative Approach to Community Climate Action
10:31 | When he learned of the threat that rising sea levels posed to his coastal hometown of Miami, Florida, eco-artist Xavier Cortada founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage.
The Doomsday Glacier Is Collapsing…Who Is Most at Risk?
12:50 | The most consequential tipping point, when it comes to sea-level rise, is Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday glacier. We also take a look at how America’s most at-risk city, Miami, is already experiencing the effects of sea-level rise today.
THIS Is the Safest Place to Live in the US as the Climate Changes
9:26 | We asked six experts where the safest, or least risky, places will be to live in the United States as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme.
Years of Living Dangerously – EPISODE 208: Uprising
50:07 | America Ferrera journeys to Illinois to shed light on the US’ controversial dependence on coal plants. Sigourney Weaver explores China’s explosive economic growth and the impact it is having on the environment on a global scale.
Years of Living Dangerously – EPISODE 204: The Uprooted
50:07 | Tom Friedman investigates the increasing population of climate refugees flowing out of Africa, and Don Cheadle is on the ground in California, where the worst drought in 1,200 years is having devastating effects.
Years of Living Dangerously – EPISODE 202: Gathering Storm
50:07 | Jack Black investigates if Miami and other low-lying coastal areas can survive the rising seas. Ian Somerhalder journeys to a blue hole off the coast of Cuba to investigate the future threat of superstorms.
Years of Living Dangerously – EPISODE 201: A Race Against Time
50:07 | In the season opener, David Letterman travels to India. Back in the U.S., Cecily Strong travels to Florida and Nevada.
This iron and water battery could power a more renewable grid
7:25 | Sitting in a row outside of the factory, these giant batteries are the size of freight containers. Powered by vats of iron and saltwater, they’re called iron flow batteries.
The Californians Who Love Big Oil
11:32 | Dena Takruri heads to Kern County, where in one in seven workers has a job tied to oil. Can this oil-reliant county ever break up with fossil fuels?
Lithium mine pits electric cars against sacred Indigenous land
10:20 | As the United States turns to electric vehicles, solar and wind for its clean energy transition, the demand for lithium – used in rechargeable batteries – is on the rise.
Why nuclear plants are shutting down
9:24 | The nuclear power dilemma, explained.
Why the US isn’t ready for clean energy
6:50 | Making clean energy isn’t enough: We also have to move it.
Why Oil Country is Turning to Wind Power
9:29 | If Texas were a country it would be fifth in the world for wind energy generation. Take a trip through wind country with host Joe Hanson as he looks into why oil country is turning into wind country.
Alaskan Native Elders Tell Their Climate Change Story 26. april 2021
5:46 | Indigenous hunter and fisherman Jerry Ivanoff ventures from his home in Unalakleet, Alaska, to Nome to meet elders from other villages. In a major government report, they document radical changes in climate.
How FIVE BILLION Pounds of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
9:14 | Most of the 600 billion pounds of waste that Americans produce every year ends up in landfills. All that trash can have huge impacts on the environment. But modern landfills have found a new use for all that trash — they’re turning it into energy.
Relocate or Rebuild? Indigenous Alaskans Forced to Choose
6:56 | Sea ice long protected coastal villages like Unalakleet, Alaska from devastating storms. But as it vanishes some residents there are relocating to the hills, including “Eskimo Ninja” Nick Hanson, who lost a training course he built with driftwood due to flooding.
Disappearing Ice Is Threatening Native Alaskans’ Way of Life
7:37 | In the After the Ice series, elders from villages in the Bering Sea region of Alaska share with Terra their observations of their melting world, how they’re adapting, and their vision for an uncertain future.
The Insane Lies About The Texas Blackouts
9:52 | About windmills, coal, natural gas, and the disconnected power grid in Texas.
Why on Earth are Winters Getting Worse if the Planet is Getting Warmer?
11:41 | Why do we see so much extreme winter weather even as the climate warms?
The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change
14:34 | It’s easy to forget that there was a time when the greenhouse effect wasn’t politically controversial, and Exxon was the world leader in climate science.
New York State Divestment Win!
1:22 | People powered victory! New York State is the biggest pension fund — $226 billion — in the world and amongst the largest financial institutions to divest from the riskiest oil and gas companies and decarbonize by 2040.
High Tide Flooding
6:57 | We visit Annapolis, Maryland, a state capitol, home of the U.S. Naval Academy, and seaside tourist town that has seen a dramatic increase in floods in recent years.
Rising Waters on the West Coast
2:27 | Since 2015, sea level has risen on the U.S. West Coast by almost one centimeter per year. The global average is 3.3 millimeters.
Why Climate Change Keeps Failing at the Ballot Box
8:05 | More Americans than ever believe climate change is happening. Two in three registered voters say they’re worried about it.
Ian Price Climate Activist
6:08 | Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s school strike for climate, Ian Price started striking at Seattle City Hall in December, 2018.
How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart
11:10 | And what the 2020 US election means for climate change.
Why we need a Green New Deal right now
9:40 | The Green New Deal offers a solution to global warming and climate change through broad social programs addressing not only fossil fuels but also racism, capitalism, ableism, and imperialism.
Katharine Hayhoe – Climate Change: What’s New?
43:11 | Join Katharine Hayhoe as she lays out how climate change is affecting regions and sectors across the U.S. Hayhoe will also discuss the key role our values play in shaping our attitudes and actions on this crucial topic.
Californian Carbon-Negative Roadmap
14:32 | A new study by a research team co-ordinated by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explains how California will lead the way to Carbon Negative Emissions.
The Effects of Climate Change on New England Forests
39:31 | In New England, rising temperatures will lead to a smaller winter snowpack and increased frequency of soil freeze/thaw cycles, which may damage trees and decrease the ability of our forests to sequester carbon.
Climate change: Why we need 70% of U.S. politicians to unite
4:42 | With Daniel Esty. When it comes to politically addressing the climate crisis, we need politicians from both sides of the aisle to work together.
Climate Change Fuels Hellfire in the City of Angels
10:58 | Warm, dry climate change conditions have made housing in LA’s “Wildland-Urban Interface” dangerous.
Is a mini ice age coming?
12:43 | New research from Rice University has revealed a surprising link between extreme cold events and global warming.
How Europe is wrecking US carbon reductions
15:13 | Team Trees’ target is to get 20 million new saplings in the ground by January 1st 2020. And it’s just as well, because the European Union (including the United Kingdom!) is busy destroying millions of trees across the south-eastern United States.
How climate change became polarized
6:18 | Republicans and Democrats once appeared to agree about climate change. What happened?
Bill McKibben on U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Accord, California Fires, Climate Refugees & More
17:14 | The Trump administration will withdraw the U.S. from the historic Paris climate agreement. We speak with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org.
Extinction Rebellion NYC Takes A Stand At Wall Street’s Charging Bull
3:36 | Activists from Extinction Rebellion NYC risked arrest by protesting Wall Street at the famous Charging Bull statue.
California Wildfires & Climate Change
4:49 | The Kincade and Getty fires are the latest in a long pattern of burning in California. But is climate change the culprit? And what can the fires teach us about how we’ll cope with a warming world?
Naomi Klein: The (Burning) Case For A Green New Deal
1:21:30 | Author and journalist Naomi Klein is joined by Juliet B. Schor, Boston College professor, to talk about her latest book.
This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future. Voices from the Historic Youth Climate Strike in NYC
28:06 | As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis.
Greta Thunberg schools Congress on Climate Change
8:36 | With short, simple answers, climate activist Greta Thunberg takes on questions from both Democrats and Republicans in a committee hearing on climate change.
Naomi Klein on the Case for a Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, & The Rise of Ecofascism
43:47 | Udgangspunktet er Naomi Kleins bog “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal”.