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Jun 2021

Big Oil Had a Bad Month (Which Means We Had a Good One)

In our S3 finale we talk about the very bad month Big Oil had in May, how much the climate story has changed in the past couple years, and what lies ahead as wildfire and hurricane season pick up, and pipeline protests rage on.

55m 46s

May 2021

What Covid and Climate Have in Common: Science Denial

Pro Publica healthcare reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about her experience navigating that minefiled, where public health and climate intersect, what happened when all the climate journalists got reassigned to Covid, how to better integrate the ways we talk about health ... Show More

1h 14m

May 2021

Moving Fast and Breaking Sh*t

Journalist Maddie Stone joins us to talk about Silicon Valley (yes, also the HBO series) and Big Tech's approach to both climate change and climate journalism.

1h 34m

Aug 2025

It's not your imagination. Hurricanes are getting more severe.

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1300 people dead and becoming the most expensive hurricane in history with overall economic losses estimated at $125 billion. It was also a harbinger of what would happen to hurricanes in the years ... Show More

6m 55s

May 2024

How shale rewrote the global oil order

For decades, countries in the Middle East have dominated the oil market, pumping large quantities of the world’s supply. Along with that has come a pattern: when there’s conflict in the region, oil prices rise. The pattern seems to be breaking though, mainly because of one thi ... Show More

17m 41s

Jan 2025

Why California wants Big Oil to pay for its wildfires?

In today’s episode on 21st January 2025, we talk about the most expensive climate catastrophe in US history and who might end up paying for it.

8m 3s

Nov 2019

Keystone Oil Spill, Baja California's Wildfires, Rainforests 'Worth More Alive Than Dead', and more

Big Keystone Oil Spill / Beyond the Headlines / Wildfires Strike Baja California / BirdNote®: The Butcherbird / Let The Leaves Be And Feed The Birds / Rainforests 'Worth More Alive Than Dead' In late October, nearly 400,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from the existing Keyston ... Show More

50m 59s

Jul 2024

It's Getting Hot in Here

Across the globe, summers are getting unseasonably, and scarily hot, and last year the United Nations announcing that we've entered the era of "global boiling." And yet it's hard to grapple with the damage caused by extreme heat. It's the deadliest kind of climate disaster, b ... Show More

13m 32s

Feb 2024

Presenting: The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast

Sea Change is taking a short break before Season 2 launches in March, and we plan to start the season off with a bang. Last fall, we traveled all over the world to report a series about a massive expansion of fossil fuels on the Gulf Coast and what it could mean for t ... Show More

10m 53s

Oct 2024

One Thing: Assessing the Damage of Trump-Fueled Hurricane Misinformation

Florida's Gulf Coast continues to clean up from Hurricane Milton, which came ashore as a Category 3 storm battering an area already weary from Hurricane Helene. With less than 4 weeks to Election Day, the response to both disasters is predictably being filtered through a politica ... Show More

21m 46s

Sep 2024

OTM Presents Ep. 1 of Slow Burn's The Rise of Fox News: We Report. You Can Suck It.

When Fox News launched in 1996, critics called it “disorganized, incompetent, and laughably inept”. And during that election cycle it barely registered. But everything changed in 2000, when Fox News called Florida (and the presidency) for George W. Bush before any of the other ne ... Show More

48m 55s