A podcast about life on Earth during a weird time: now. We visit people who are thinking about the future and figuring out how we will adapt to a changing planet. Hosted by Science Friday alum Flora Lichtman, produced by Freakonomics Radio/The Atlantic alum Katherine Wells.
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Grist reporter Amelia Urry visits an Australian lab, where scientists are trying to grow coral that can survive in the future. And a farewell from Flora and Katherine.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Outside of Taos, NM, you'll find a community of people living in off-grid homes made of garbage. We visited them.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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There's a Weird Vibe on the Bus
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Michael Reynolds builds off-grid homes out of garbage. Meet the Earthship.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Wild yaks live on the roof of the world, a frosty high-elevation plateau north of the Himalayas. Conservation biologist Joel Berger, of the University of Montana and the Wildlife Conservation Society, wanted to find out how climate change might affect yaks, so he paid them a visit.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Reporter Ryan Bradley follows up on his quest to buy water.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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When you hear "renewable energy," you think solar and wind. But what about spores? Columbia University's Ozgur Sahin explains.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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How We Measure the Earth Breathing
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What do Algerian monks have to do with 400 parts per million? Reporter Jeff Delviscio investigates how we measure CO2 in the atmosphere.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Dogs evolved in response to environmental changes tens of millions of years ago. Can that tell us anything about how animals might adapt to climate change today?Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Born in the Anthropocene
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Jeremy and Charlie, 11 year old students, are worried about climate change. They say it's because their generation will be the one to bear the brunt of its effects.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Historian James Fleming talks about the surprising history of weather control and what past failures can tell us about today's geoengineering proposals.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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When exposed to high temperatures, Australian Central Bearded Dragons do something strange.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Let's Talk About Babies
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Ethicist Travis Rieder thinks that it's time we talked about population.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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On the International Space Station, sewage, condensation and even sweat get recycled into potable water. We have the technology to recycle water on Earth, too, but we don't use it as often as we could -- mostly because we think it's gross.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Dollypartoniana and Other Lichens
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Lichens are under threat from climate and habitat changes. Should we care?Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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We interviewed New York City rats to get their thoughts on climate change and whether humans will be able to adapt.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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When Rats Inherit the Earth
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If humans were to go extinct, what would the planet look like? One paleobiologist says the creatures most likely to take our place are rats.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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How Water Is Bought and Sold
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Reporter Ryan Bradley lives in California. Given the drought, he figured it'd be a good idea to buy some water rights. It was more complicated than he thought.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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We asked for your stories of climate shame. You delivered.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Wild yaks live on the roof of the world, a frosty high-elevation plateau north of the Himalayas. Biologist Joel Berger wanted to find out how climate change might affect yaks, so he paid them a visit.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Why did a young Romanian inventor build an eco-friendly car made out of half a million LEGO pieces that runs on compressed air? Well, why not?Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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We can imagine the deep past: full of mammoths and dinosaurs and climates very different from our own. But how are we supposed to imagine the future?Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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In a fusion world, we'd generate unlimited clean energy from mini suns that we build all over Earth. Sound like a fairytale? Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab say we can get there -- if we can pay for it.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Cat Eyes for Climate Change
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How far would you go for climate change? NYU philosopher Matthew Liao has an outside-the-box proposal: Decrease energy use by engineering humans to have meat allergies, fur, and yes, cat eyes.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Is there something you feel like you should be doing, or not doing, for the environment? If so, you're not alone.Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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New York City is poised to become the country's largest producer of an unexpected type of green energy. This fuel source you can make yourself - and you certainly do. Anthony Fiore, director of the NYCDEP Office of Energy, explains how NYC's Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is turning sewage and food scraps into "black gold."…
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What if you had an idea that you believed could change the world? What if that idea was a tornado machine?Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
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Retired engineer Louis Michaud believes he has an idea that could solve the world's energy problems: A tornado machine. For 50 years, Michaud has been working on an "Atmospheric Vortex Engine" -- a device that he hopes someday will generate mile-high tornadoes from warm air heated by the sun or waste heat from power plants. The updraft would turn t…
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Meet the adaptors: the visionaries, the scientists, the entrepreneurs, the backyard tinkerers who are responding to the challenges presented by climate change. We'll introduce to them, one story at a time. We'll bring you a new podcast every two weeks. We make videos, too. Host Flora Lichtman and producer Katherine Wells set the stage.…
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