PODCASTS
How They Made Us Doubt Everything
BBC Radio 4
We live in an age of rampant misinformation and tactical advertising which often shape our decisions. This 10-part series by BBC Radio explores how powerful interests engineered doubt in the collective conscience, from questioning the connection between smoking and cancer to wondering whether climate change is a hoax.
GigaWhat: Everything Environment
Mongabay India
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy appears to be the need of the hour amidst the climate crisis. But what are the challenges and difficulties that the transition will bring? In this episode of GigaWhat, presented by Mongabay India, understand the potential effects of the renewable energy transition on various stakeholders, as well as possible solutions.
What's the Longest Word in the English Language?
Science History Institute
The longest word to appear in an English language document can surprisingly be found in a dictionary for chemists. The word is the name of a protein in the tobacco mosaic virus, and runs into 1185 letters. In this podcast, learn about the origin of this word and what it tells us about the unusual chemistry of carbon.
The Climate Denier's Playbook: You Owe Your Life to Oil and Gas
Climate Town
Rollie Williams and Nicole Conlan are two comedians with Master's degrees in Climate Science Policy and Urban Planning. In this podcast, they examine the pervasive myths and misinformation campaigns that are making it immensely difficult to address the climate crisis.
Drilled: The Corporate Push to Criminalize Free Speech
Critical Frequency
How are protests, particularly environmental and climate related ones, being criminalised across the world? In this episode of Drilled, dig into what prompted fossil fuel industries to start agitating for government crack down on climate protest, what tactics they use, and why they have been so effective.
Andre Geim on Levitating Frogs, Graphene
The Life Scientific
In 2010, Sir Andre Geim won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating the first-ever human-made 2-Dimensional material by isolating graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms that together create graphite. Just 10 years before this, he won the Ig Nobel prize for using the magnetic scaling properties of water to levitate a frog. In this podcast, hear about his work, life, and a bit about levitating frogs.
Why Are We Still Buying Diamonds?
Search Enginge
They are shiny rocks that seem to embody eternal love. But diamonds, it turns out, are not as rare as we think. These days, they can be made in a laboratory. So, why do we continue to spend so much money on them? This is the story of a century-long, international scheme, and how it fell apart.
Electricity, Hold the Carbon
Cutting Carbon
Can new technologies help us survive the climate crisis? In this podcast, learn about the use of hydrogen as a fuel for power generation. Dive into carbon capture technology, which might be applied to power plants.
Life Cycle Analysis: Calculating the Embodied Carbon in Building Materials
The Future Built Smarter
A Life Cycle Analysis, or an LCA, examines the environmental impacts of materials used in a building’s construction throughout its lifetime, including manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and disposal or reuse. In this podcast, structural engineer Laura Hagan discusses the LCA in the context of the built environment.
Who Benefits From Development in the North-East?
In Perspective
Listen to this conversation with Dolly Kikon, an academic advisor to the CARBON exhibition, where she speaks about identity, resource extraction in Northeast India, the Baghjan crisis in Assam, and how development can exclude local communities.
Communicating Carbon at the Museum Science
The Carbon Removal Show
How can we communicate messages about carbon and climate change in the museum space? Join the host on a walk with the curator of the exhibition Our Future Planet at the Science Museum. In journeying through the exhibition, learn about the technologies being developed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Koh-i-Noor Diamond
Empire
A single stone has been fought over for at least 250 years by four different empires, and now sits in the Queen Consort's crown as part of the British royal family's Crown Jewels. Join William Dalrymple and Anita Anand as they trace the murky history of one of the world's most famous diamonds.
King Coal: Its Journey and the Endgame
The India Energy Hour
Coal provides nearly two-thirds of India's electricity, but its long-term future is uncertain due to climate change and the rise of renewable energy. In this episode, political scientist and economic historian Rohit Chandra reflects on the history of the coal industry in India and the emergence of 'Coal India,' along with private entities.