This hour, we’ll talk about how cities can deal with climate change, income equality and other challenges with Jonathan Rose, author of “The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life” (Harper Wave).
Read moreThe Problem With Warming Oceans
This hour, we’ll talk about recent mass fatalities of marine wildlife due to warming seas with Craig Welch. His article, “The Blob That Cooked the Pacific,” appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic.
Read moreAn Economic Solution To Climate Change
This hour, we’ll talk about developing a market-based approach to fighting global warming with former U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), executive director of republicEn, an organization dedicated to free-enterprise solutions to climate change.
Read moreChanging Ideas On Climate Change
This hour, we’ll talk about how Exxon’s position on the issue has changed over the years with Neela Banerjee, who spent eight months reporting on the energy giant. We’ll also be joined by Ken Cohen, vice president of public and government affairs for Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Read moreObserving Climate Change From Above
We’ll talk with Greg Asner, an ecologist with the Carnegie Airborn Observatory, about taking to the skies to take the Earth’s temperature. Asner is featured in “National Geographic” magazine’s November issue devoted to climate change.
Read moreKeeping Up With Climate Change
We’ll talk this hour about reducing greenhouse gases – and if that’s enough in the fight against global warming – with Brian Stone, associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Read moreClimate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Where do post Cold War militarism, economic upheaval and new global issues associated with climate change meet?
Read moreClimate & Health
Hour 1: How are environmental degradation and climate change affecting our physical well-being? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the new book “Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It” (University of California Press, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/136864251/KERA_136864251.mp3
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