Drilled
A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Dana R. Fisher on the Past, Present and Future of Climate Protest
In her new book Saving Ourselves, Dana R. Fisher compiles years worth of research on protest in general and climate protest in particular for a comprehensive look at tactics, what "works," what a pro…
00:46:57 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Department of Homeland Security, the Manufactured "EcoTerrorist" Panic, and Cop City
The U.S. government's definition of what constitutes an "ecoterrorist" has long driven backlash against environmental activists and in recent years that definition has only broadened. Investigative r…
00:40:16 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Meet the UN's First Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders
In June 2022, Michel Forst became the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders. In that role he has spent the past year visiting various countries and speaking out about the increasingl…
01:13:37 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
How UK Courts Became the New Climate Protest Battleground
About a decade after UK courts made history with the first "climate necessity" ruling in history, the UK government has passed new laws that not only restrict what protesters can do, but also how pro…
00:33:47 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
What Happened At Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline
While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, cops moonlighting as pipelin…
00:44:45 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Seven Years Later, an Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline
This month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closes the comment period on its draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile pipeline that’s been pumping 500,000 ba…
00:37:46 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada
As we resume our season focused on the global criminalization of climate protest, reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years against a gas …
00:42:59 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Abeer Butmeh: Living on the Front Lines of a War and the Climate Crisis, in Palestine
Abeer Butmeh, coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs Network, one of the most important Palestinian environmental organizations, spoke to senior editor Alleen Brown about battling for short-term and lon…
00:35:57 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Messy Conversations: Magatte Wade, Atlas Network's Center for African Prosperity
We'll be back with the rest of our anti-protest season soon, but in the meantime, welcome to a new Drilled miniseries we're calling "Messy Conversations," getting into all the complicated nuance that…
01:14:44 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
The Tomato Soup "Controversy"
Globally, climate activism has shifted over the past few years. It’s more constant now and includes more direct action than ever before. Some of that action has critics, including climate scientists …
00:32:19 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
In Brazil, A Tale as Old as Colonization: Why Indigenous Land Defenders Are Particularly Targeted by Extractive Industries
From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist entitlement to land, wa…
00:29:40 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
Guyana Update: Gas to Energy for Guyana, or Problem to Profit for Exxon?
A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) looks at the details of Guyana's planned "Gas to Energy" project and finds mostly benefits for ExxonMobil and more …
00:28:05 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Fingerpaint
In April 2023, Joanna Oltman Smith walked into the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with fellow activist Tim Martin, and smeared water-soluble kids' finger paint on the glass display case contain…
00:49:44 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria
From our pals over at Inherited, in today’s episode, Mo Isu looks at one of the reasons climate activists all over the world are protesting: they're already facing the impacts of climate change. Here…
00:33:20 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
How Think Tanks Laid the Groundwork to Criminalize Protest
It’s no coincidence that the backlash against climate protest looks the same from country to country. Not only is industry sharing tactics across borders, but also the Atlas Network—a global network …
00:44:39 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
In Vietnam, Tax Evasion Charges Help Lock Up Climate Activists
President Biden made his first trip to Vietnam as President this week, with the intention of "upgrading" diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. Not on the agenda? The country's move to us…
00:23:09 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
In Australia, A State-By-State Approach to Criminalizing Climate Protest
Since the 2019 passage of the "Dangerous Attachment Devices" bill in response to anti-coal protests in Queensland, Australia's states have moved quickly to follow suit.
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00:29:46 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
There's a lot of discourse happening about free speech in the context of "cancel culture" these days, but precious little coverage of the push all over the world to criminalize protest...particularly…
00:34:09 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
Disha Ravi on Becoming the Face of "Radical" Protest in India
When she was just 22, Disha Ravi, co-founder of Fridays for Future in India, had police show up at her home, borrow a pen and paper to write an arrest warrant on the spot, and bundle her onto a plane…
00:32:53 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
How the Media Has Helped to Criminalize Climate Protest, with Evlondo Cooper
Media Matters senior researcher Evlondo Cooper put out a fascinating study earlier this month looking at how the media has covered climate activism. In today's episode we look at the role that flawed…
00:24:09 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
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