Climate Curious
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 260
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Why a violence prevention pro is turning her attention to climate misinformation
What’s counter-terrorism got to do with climate change? Good question! Global heat waves have fuelled a surge in climate mis-and disinformation across mainstream platforms, says Vidhya Ramalingam, a …
How people power can help prepare us for climate shocks
Do you refuse to stand on the sidelines of climate shocks? You might be an “apocalyptic optimist”, says sociologist Dana R. Fisher on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. Tune in to hear why Dana thinks thi…
What’s Ragnarök got to do with climate change?
How the Pacific Climate Warriors took back their story
Turning pity into power, the Pacific Climate Warriors reclaimed the narrative to bring a new meaning to climate action taking place in climate vulnerable nations in the Pacific Islands. A founder of …
What do zombies and vampires have to do with climate change?
Climate curious, or climate creepy? To celebrate our halloween special last year, we're revisiting our chat with disease detective, Neil Vora, to explain why increasing global temperatures means the …
Why the UK government refuses to defend the UK's biggest undeveloped oilfield
Stop Rosebank campaigner Lauren MacDonald joins Climate Curious to discuss the urgent court case against the approval of the Rosebank oilfield, the UK's biggest undeveloped oilfield. Tune in to learn…
What are regenerative cultures?
Big Brother star Daze Aghaji, a climate justice activist and artist joins Climate Curious to explain the theory behind regenerative cultures. In conversation with co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst,…
BOSS series: What resilience looks like in Vanuatu
What the closure of the UK’s last coal plant means
Earlier this week, the closure of the coal-powered Ratcliffe power station in Nottinghamshire was announced. Tessa Khan, the Director of Uplift UK joins Climate Curious to discuss why this is such an…
How Ned’s Forest inspires a new model of environmental stewardship
An area of land in New South Wales described as ‘the motherland of habitat’ has been protected from development thanks to a 15-year-old naturalist and photographer. Ned McNaughton joins Climate Curio…
How a soul forest is transforming Hyderabad
How a mega biodiverse forest project in Hyderabad, a city in the south central part of India, is rewilding a 800 acre barren wasteland (the size of Central Park NYC!) into a flourishing nature reserv…
Climate Quickie: Why photography is a powerful climate storytelling tool
National Geographic photographer Jaime Rojo joins Climate Curious to share why his photography of the migration of monarch butterflies across North America tells a bigger climate story, and why photo…
How electric boats are turning the tide on polluted waterways
Keeping our waterways safe and clean is a major challenge. Daylin Frantin, a clean energy entrepreneur is taking on the challenge by electrifying the recreational small boats sector with Flux Marine.…
Why tackling climate change is art, not just science
“I use socially engaged art to help people visualise their climate vulnerability,” shares lawyer turned climate artist Xavier Cortada on the Climate Curious podcast. Recorded live at TED 2024, Xavier…
Climate Quickie: Why methane must go
“No shaming, no moral high ground, it's about working together to tackle something,” says Marcelo Mena, the CEO of the Global Methane Hub based in Santiago, Chile, on the Climate Curious podcast. Rec…
Climate Quickie: The extraordinary life of monarch butterflies
Jaime Rojo joins Climate Curious to share his experience photographing the migration of monarch butterflies across North America each year, diving into the latest research behind how these mesmerisin…
Climate Quickie: How community-led art is sparking climate conversations in Florida
Climate Quickie: The hidden beauty in climate data
This week, we’re speaking to data artist, TED Senior Fellow, and founder of Translating Nature, Dr. Julie Freeman, to delve into the hidden beauty in climate data. Numbers, charts, graphs – data gets…
Climate Quickie: Why climate wars go unreported
Small Indigenous communities make up only five percent of the world’s population, but they defend 80 percent of the biodiversity that remains on Earth, says Anjan Sundaram. Climate Curious spoke to w…
How storytelling can honour forgotten climate conflicts
Ever met a mathematician turned war reporter? Yep, neither us! Until we met Anjan Sundaram, a war reporter turned climate reporter, who joins Climate Curious at TED 2024 to share his work sharing the…