Chronic Failure Podcast
Chronic Failure is a podcast that delves into the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Join our hosts as they explore the history, news, research, and insights on natural disasters, climate change, and environmental sustainability.
From hurricanes and wildfires to sea level rise and air pollution, Chronic Failure provides a comprehensive overview of the past and the current state of our environment and the challenges we face in mitigating the impacts of climate change.
Join us for new episodes every week and be part of the conversation on how we can make a difference in protecting our planet. Subscribe to Chronic Failure on your favorite podcast platform today. Episodes drop every Tuesday at Midnight.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2023
Episode 16: Current Events
Episode 15: Love Canal
Episode 14: The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Episode 13: Seveso Dioxin Disaster
Episode 12: Current Events
Episode Source MaterialThe Whiskey Fungus SourcesWhiskey Fungus Fed by Jack Daniel’s Encrusts Tennessee Town by Michael LevensonWhiskey fungus lawsuit forces Jack Daniel’s to halt building project by…
Episode 11: Deepwater Horizon Pt. 2
Episode Source Material
We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later by Alejandra Borunda
Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program by the National Oceanic Atm…
Episode 10: Deepwater Horizon Pt. 1
This event put international eyes on the oil and gas industry, claimed many human lives, and was one of the worst environmental disasters to befoul the coastal United-States.
Episode Source Material
Episode 9: The Sydney Tar Ponds
Episode Source Material
Sydney Tar Ponds by Environment & Society Portal
Sydney Tar Ponds – Project Spotlight by Lafarge
Coke Ovens Emissions – National Cancer Institute
Laying Waste to Toxic Waste by Ba…
Episode 8: Defunct Panguna Mine
If you were to fly over the Crown Prince Range of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea you would be soaring above a lush, jade-green tropical rainforest. Amid this verdant expanse, you would see a gaping h…
Episode 7: Current Events
The aim of this podcast has always been to highlight some of humanity’s greatest failures when it comes to the environment. Although most of the topics that we have covered to date happened in the no…
Episode 6: Mercury in the Grassy Narrows
This episode is about how life for people of the Grassy Narrows First Nation was left in tatters following the discharge of almost 1 ton of mercury into the waters that make up their ancestral territ…
Episode 5: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
For the people of Fukushima Prefecture, time stopped at 2:46pm on March 11th, 2011. This was the moment that the Tōhoku earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1, rocked the coastal region. This was the lar…
Episode 4: Agent Orange
Agent Orange is one of a class of color-coded herbicides called “The Rainbow Herbicides”. Used in Vietnam, as well as in Laos and Cambodia near the Vietnam border as part of "Operation Ranch Hand," a…
Episode 2: Niger Delta Oil Pollution
After six decades, oil exploration has made the Niger Delta of of the most polluted places on earth. Damages have been done to farmland, forests, mangroves, and the economy.
Episode Source Material
Nig…
Episode 3: Minnesota vs. 3M
Cottage Grove, Minnesota. A wholesome and fitting name for a city on the frontline of the American Dream. Today, it is known as ground zero for a chemical disaster whose tendrils have extended well b…
Episode 1: DDT
This episode explores the the rise and fall of the infamous pesticide known as DDT. We discuss the environmental and human health impacts of the chemical along with its lasting effects.
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