After discovering that an oil well next to her apartment was making her sick, nine-year-old Nalleli Cobo led the charge to shut it down. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, Marjan Minnesma brought a historic lawsuit that could change the legal landscape the world over. What motivates activists to devote their lives to local and systemic change?

Investigative journalist Amy Westervelt uncovers big oil’s methods of shaping public opinion and legal rulings in its favor. Through true-crime storytelling, her podcasts shine a light on the oil industry's climate and environmental harms and on those individuals who try to hold them accountable.

From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, activists have long sought to bring pressing issues into the public consciousness. Climate activism is no different. But what kind of actions really move the needle?

Climate disruption is a bigger and bigger part of our lives, and yet there’s one place it still doesn’t show up much: our television and movie screens. Apple TV+ just released the series Extrapolations, a star-studded exploration of our hot and messy climate future. But why doesn’t climate get more play in Hollywood?

Thousands of renewable energy projects are ready to be built and start producing fossil-free power, but they’re stuck in a long limbo for one essential piece of the puzzle: getting connected to the grid. What will it take to modernize our multiple grids?

Bitcoin mining uses as much energy as mid-sized countries like Sweden. It’s designed that way to be super secure, but all that digital mining contributes megatons of carbon emissions to the atmosphere at a time when we need to be slashing them. And even when bitcoin mining uses renewable power, it’s drawing that power away from our energy transition.

As the effects of the climate crisis become more apparent, we need leaders from all political and industrial perspectives to work together. How can common ground be found between environmentalists on the left and Republicans on the right? What does an EV-driving member of the ConocoPhillips board have to say about reducing emissions?

White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi plays a leading role in coordinating the implementation of the biggest investments in clean energy the U.S. has ever made. This week he joins us to discuss the complicated maze of industrial policy intended to create a more just economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Our brains evolved to handle immediate dangers, but they are not so great at processing large existential threats, like the climate crisis. How can we use our understanding of behavior to incorporate happiness into meaningful climate action?

Rich countries of the world are finally starting to own up to the fact that their fossil-fueled development has unjustly put developing nations at increased climate risk. Those poorer countries will also need help financing a transition to a clean energy economy. How can that be achieved while centering economic justice?

Every place we inhabit has its own tapestry of sound. But as the planet warms and we lose biodiversity, those sounds are changing. In urban centers, our efforts to mitigate the climate crisis will also have a direct sonic effect. Will we listen to the messages our world is sending us, or will we tune them out?

For decades, hydrogen has been considered the fuel of the future. Now, with a slew of new U.S. tax incentives, research and funding, its moment may have finally arrived.

The lack of affordable housing in the US has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. Inevitably, that increases car travel and emissions. How do we address the housing and climate crises equitably?

Could “climate smart” agriculture reverse the carbon impact of mainstream farming and ranching? USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack advocates for a new federal program aimed at changing the system at a commodity level. But will it be enough to incentivize more climate-friendly practices for growing food and fuel?

2022 was a banner year for climate – both in terms of climate-fueled disaster and historic federal investments in clean energy, electric vehicles and home electrification. The questions now: How will the programs be implemented? How will the money be spent – and who will benefit?

As human-driven global warming amplifies the frequency and potency of natural disasters, we are increasingly dependent on one group of workers who live in the shadows: the migrant workforce that arrives to clean up and rebuild.

When most of us think about using nature to remove carbon dioxide from the air, we think of trees. Yet blue carbon, a new name for CO2 stored in coastal and marine ecosystems, may have even greater sequestration potential. How can ocean-based solutions benefit both the planet and the people who depend on coastal ecosystems?

On Climate One we often try to shine a light on the vast inequities that exist between those who benefit from extracting and burning fossil fuels and those who suffer its impacts first and worst. How can activism and art highlight these inequities and provide new ways of thinking and viewing ourselves in relationship to the earth?

Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Now, when governments consistently fail to take meaningful action on climate, why aren’t more musical artists raising the alarm over the growing catastrophe?

Longtime tech and business journalist Molly Wood has moved into venture capital, driven by the potential she sees in financing climate tech startups. Humans have created the seemingly insurmountable climate crisis, and yet human ingenuity, she says, can help us survive it.

Fossil fuel companies spend vast amounts of money on advertising and PR campaigns touting their climate commitments. Yet actions rarely live up to the hype. Who is really behind the misleading corporate narratives?

Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review the top climate stories of 2022, from the global impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine, to the passage and signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, to the recent international climate summit in Egypt.

Stefan Rahmstorf, winner of this year’s Schneider Award for outstanding science communication, says we’re running toward a cliff in a fog. What can science tell us where that cliff is – and how to avoid it?

It may surprise many that some of our biggest fossil fuel uses are inside our homes – with the appliances that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes and cook our food. But government funding, new technology and home building improvements are changing the way we think about constructing and living inside our homes and buildings to rely less on fossil fuels.

A growing number of research coalitions, citizen scientists and activists are using a slate of new tools to detect and report emissions and harmful air pollutants, with the goal of increasing regulations to improve climate and health outcomes at the local and global level.