Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail discusses why allergies are getting worse and what the world’s best allergy clinicians are doing to combat them.
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Deception is a part of our nature (and nature itself)
Lixing Sun, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University, talks about the role of deceit in the lives of plants and animals.
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Facing an ethical dilemma? Here’s some help
Philosopher Peter Singer talks about how we can make choices that lead to what he calls “maximum good.”
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We can’t talk about climate change without addressing racism
Researcher Manann Donoghoe joins host Krys Boyd to discuss restitution for the environmental racism that has brought pollution and climate change to many of the world’s poorest people.
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Where do your clothes really go after you give them away?
Climate reporter Allyson Chiu discusses the pipeline from thrift stores to salvage companies to incineration and landfills to find out where all our clothes ultimately land.
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Do you worry too much about climate change?
Shannon Osaka joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the growing number of people who share a grim view of the future, and how climate scientists are trying to win them back.
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How you can stop wasting food
Reporter Susan Shain explains how food waste is responsible for twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as commercial aviation.
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Why you don’t know that people of color were some of the first environmentalists
Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist platform, joins host Krys Boyd to explain the links between racism, environmentalism and privilege.
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We all hate open-space offices, so why are they still around?
Scientific American contributing editor George Musser joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the open-office plan took off, the downsides its designers didn’t anticipate, and what a better office layout might look like.
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The surprising musicality of animals
New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger joins us to discuss his profile of neuroscientist and musician David Sulzer, who is trying to define what music is and how studying animals’ connection to music is helping in that pursuit.
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Why we need forests that have never been touched by humans
Joan Maloof is the founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network and she joins us to discuss the role old-growth forests play in the ecosystem and the different approaches that are being taken to saving them.
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Collagen may or may not help your skin, but it does hurt the planet
Fábio Zuker, a journalist and anthropologist, joins us to discuss his investigation into where collagen originates and how it threatens both the Amazon and the indigenous people who call the rainforest home.
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