Climate Curious

The real cost of climate change? $400 billion, with Harjeet Singh

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When extreme weather events strike, who picks up the cheque? With the more devastating effects of climate change disproportionately hitting the Global...

Separating oil and gas TV fact from fiction in ‘Landman’, with Debbie Gordon and Lucy Stone

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the show ‘Landman’ just slick fossil fuel promotion? Climate Curious separates fact from fiction when it comes to the narratives pushed in Tayl...

The end of new oil and gas exploration in the UK? with Tessa Khan

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the UK finally closing the door on new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea? According to Tessa Khan, Executive Director of Uplift, yes! A corn...

What ‘Landman’ gets right about wind farms, gas leaks, and life on a West Texas oil field, with Debbie Gordon and Lucy Stone

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the reality of life in West Texas oil country? In response to Season 2 of Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ starring Billy Bob Thornton, we a...

How to tell between real and fake carbon capture, with James Mwangi

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the real deal with carbon capture? Sucking carbon out of the air may sound like an enticing solution, but climate advocate and investor James...

Mixtape: COP30 takeaways

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What really happened at COP30? Tune in to the Climate Curious COP30 wrap-up mixtape and hear expert hot takes to soothe your soul, raise your spirits,...

Life-writing through the eyes of nature, with poet Riley Faulds

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Poetry helps shift some of the really dominant ways we think about the environment, particularly in the west” says environmental scientist and po...

What happens when you tell Big Oil “no”? With Melinda Janki

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If you want to stop the oil industry, you have to use power. Law is power,” says environmental lawyer and Climate Curious alumni, Melinda Janki. ...

How doctors are prescribing for climate conflicts, with Dr. Omnia El Omrani

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Climate change is going to exacerbate an already vulnerable population, especially in conflict zones,” says Dr. Omnia El Omrani, an Egyptian phys...

Decarbonising Japan whilst honouring the scars of its past, with Kimiko Hirata

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kimiko Hirata shares her vision of a carbon-free Japan, and how shifting from “no” to “yes” is the key to mobilising people and government tow...

LIVE | How culture makes climate irresistible, with Daze Aghaji

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Straight from the Big Brother House to the Climate Curious Live stage, recorded live at Ladbroke Hall, we caught up with Daze Aghaji on the evolution ...

Why loss and damage funding matters, with Harjeet Singh

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When floods, storms, and droughts strike, who helps communities pick up the pieces? According to climate justice leader Harjeet Singh, the world still...

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.4 Meet the capable guardians fighting green crime, with Dr. Julia Shaw

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From an eco-spy to a human rights lawyer and even a sea captain; meet the capable guardians fighting green crime. Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw...

Why charismatic megafaunas are vital ecosystem engineers, with Dr. Julia Shaw

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Elephants are some of the last megafauna we have left. And without them we are kind of screwed,” says Dr. Julia Shaw on the latest ‘Climate Cur...

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.3 The Shuidong Syndicate case and the psychology of wildlife trafficking, with Dr. Julia Shaw

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Perceived benevolence, organised crime, undercover operations, the psychology of poaching: tune in to hear the story behind one of world’s most succ...

How psychological ownership can reduce environmental crime, with Dr. Julia Shaw

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If you just give people legal ownership without psychological ownership, they'll trash it,” says Dr. Julia Shaw on the latest ‘Climate Curious ...

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.2 The murders of Maria and Zé Cláudio and the psychology of eco-hitmen, with Dr. Julia Shaw

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rationalisation, conformity, impunity, ownership: tune in to hear the story of two remarkable environmental defenders Maria and Zé Cláudio – ...

What do we do with environmental criminals? With Dr. Julia Shaw

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When climate criminals are caught – what does justice look like? Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw joins Climate Curious co-hosts Ben Hurst ...

Climate Curious on Crime: Ep.1 Dieselgate and the psychology of corporate green con men, with Dr. Julia Shaw

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic malevolence, eco-anger, whistleblowing, greenwashing: tune in to hear the story of Volkswagen’s emissions scandal ‘Dieselgate’ like yo...

What is a green crime? With Dr. Julia Shaw

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the role of psychology in fighting environmental crime? Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw joins Climate Curious co-hosts Ben Hurst and Mary...

How biochar is turning waste into wealth, with James Mwangi

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Africa’s young workforce is already turning waste biomass and sunshine into jobs, food security and scalable carbon removal, says James Mwangi, the ...

How climate resilience can help end poverty, with Esther Duflo

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The poorest people in the world contribute exactly nothing to climate change,” says Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo. For decades, she ...

LIVE | How a 20,000km life-sized animal puppet stampede makes climate impacts urgent, with The Herds’ David Lan

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With his life-sized animal puppets stampeding their way across the globe representing nature’s struggle in the face of the climate crisis, Climate C...

How Kenya is harnessing the heat from under its feet (geothermal energy!), with Dr. Anna Mwangi

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kenya has become a global leader in geothermal energy over the past 13 years, with 42% of all energy used by the country produced in geothermal plants...

LIVE | Big Oil: What can we do to reclaim the story?

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What are the tactics and propaganda playbook of Big Oil, and what role can artists and popular culture take in reclaiming the narrative? From the flaw...

Meet the women farmers adapting to climate change, with Alison Ward, Noha Ali, and Samah Salah

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Female small-holder farmers in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are adapting to climate change using both new and old farming techniques. From intercro...

The story behind climate’s most powerful movement to date, with Xiye Bastida

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The youth climate movement was effective at raising attention to levels that it had never been at before,” says Mexican-Chilean climate activist ...

The beauty queen building climate resilience in Kenya, with Dorcas Naishorua

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Women are key to climate action in Kenya, says Maasai climate advocate, Miss Climate Kenya, and the world's first Miss Climate, Dorcas Naishorua. Shar...

How gamers are playing for the planet

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gamers are getting playful in the name of climate action, and it’s working! Featuring a digital wardrobe entrepreneur, a creative coder, an urban gr...

How to scale up courageous climate journalism, with mathematician turned climate war reporter Anjan Sundaram

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What drives someone to swap a job at Goldman Sachs for a one-way ticket to the Congo? Journalist and mathematician Anjan Sundaram joins Climate Curiou...

How to shoot sustainable sci-fi, with Dr. Itandehui Jansen

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sci-fi film-making can be sustainable, says film professor and filmmaker Dr. Itandehui Jansen on the Climate Curious podcast. From filming in natural ...

Can we refreeze the Arctic? With Brad Ack

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“There may well be measures that we can take on a temporary basis to cool the Arctic and to prolong Arctic sea ice”, says Brad Ack, the CEO of Oce...

Who are the real ‘Climate Criminals?’ With filmmakers Becky Burchell and Sophie Austin

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who gets labelled a criminal in the fight for climate justice – and why? In this episode of Climate Curious, filmmakers Becky Burchell and Sophie Au...

How to tap into your intuition: a live meditation with Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if the answers you’re searching for are already within you? Icelandic author and filmmaker Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir joins Climate Curious to exp...

Cleaning up the cloud, with Vijay Karia

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a garbage collector, but for your digital junk. Vijay Karia joins Climate Curious to share his solution for tackling the invisible but growing...

Baby buffalos, Badlands, and breaking barriers: Hollywood actor Mo Brings Plenty on living without fear

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Live without fear,” says Hollywood actor and Oglala Lakota citizen Mo Brings Plenty, star of the hit series Yellowstone, on Climate Curious. Sadd...

How an indigenous water professor is making waves in the courtroom

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Water is more than a resource; it’s a relative,” says water professor and protector Kelsey Leonard on the Climate Curious podcast, recorded liv...

Why climate solutions are more abundant than you might think

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Focusing on the solutions gives you the motivation to wake up every day and be like, okay, we are doing something," says Jacquelyn Francis, founder a...

How earth lawyers are making nature’s rights legally binding

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if rivers, forests, and mountains had legal rights–just like humans? Nature should be able to defend its rights, just like people can, says Ear...

How space science is uplifting farmers on the ground

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"When people's lives are better and easier, they will not need to sell charcoal or cut down trees to feed their family," says food security specialist...

The Herds hit London: are you ready?

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are ‘The Herds’ roaming through a city near you? At our Climate Curious live event for London Climate Action Week, we sat down with David Lan, the...

How The Herds is bringing nature's struggle to the streets

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“When I try to do things, I have to take it out to the streets,” says Palestinian-born creative director of The Herds, Amir Nizar Zuabi. With his ...

Why fusion energy is closer than you think

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The future of energy may be closer than we think, says Steffi Diem, an experimental plasma physicist on Climate Curious. She sits down Maryam Pasha li...

How land use maps are empowering eco-farmers

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we can’t track it, we can’t fix it. That’s the idea behind MapBiomas, a project using satellite data to reveal exactly how land use is changi...

How Atmos is keeping climate storytelling in vogue

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Use the arts and creativity as a way to speak to people's humanity around climate” says Willow Defebaugh, Editor-in-chief of the nature publicati...

How a rainforest toxicologist is cleaning up gold mining in the Amazon

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not all that glitters is gold. Especially when it’s tinged with the poison of toxic mercury. On this week’s Curious Climate, co-host Maryam Pasha ...

How baby corals are reviving reefs

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New ways of growing baby corals are bringing life back to fading coral reefs, says Executive Director of Impact at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, ...

How a social worker and an aquatic ecologist protected Europe’s last wild river

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wild rivers in Europe are vanishing fast—but not on Besjana Guri and Olsi Nika’s watch. In this episode of Climate Curious, the Albanian conservat...

How doctors are healing more than just patients

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Medical professionals are powerful voices in the climate conversation, says doctor turned climate advocate Dr. Bruce Bekkar on Climate Curious. From n...

How to find your climate footing (even if you're slipping)

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Feeling wobbly about your place in the climate movement? You’re not alone. Writer, activist, and All We Can Save co-founder Katharine Wilkinson join...

Why pangolins need a cooler planet

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crop failure, drought and extreme weather is pushing families to look for income outside of their normal routes, shares Dr. Mark Ofua, a wildlife vete...

How AI is decoding coral reefs

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With 25% of marine biodiversity found on coral reefs, it’s vital they are kept healthy! On Climate Curious today we hear from marine biologist, data...

Why bioplastics are key to a sustainable plastic future

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From microplastic contamination in our food supply, to endless plastic ending up in landfill our dependence on oil-based materials poses a major chall...

Climate Mixtape: Earth Day 2025

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Earth Day! This year, we’re celebrating climate progress. We spoke to our Climate Curious experts about what keeps them going during challengi...

How to ignite your Natural Connection

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 Environmentalism isn't a one dimensional thing, says environmental justice technologist and author Joycelyn Longdon on the Climate Curious podcast....

How sea otters are protecting the world

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sea otters are helping to capture carbon, says Alister Scott, the co-director of the Global Rewilding Alliance, on Climate Curious. By reintroducing s...

Can the far-right stall climate progress?

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From conveniently hiding key climate science to flat out running misinformation campaigns, Climate Curious takes a look at the far right’s influence...

What are sources and sinks?

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sources and sinks aren’t bathroom fixtures, they’re our most powerful tools to turn up or dial down climate change, says Project Drawdown’s Exec...

Big Oil and the real story behind ‘The End’

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Based on a true story: last Friday saw the cinema release of the post-apocalyptic musical ‘The End'. Climate Curious co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben H...

How Uru Uru team is cleaning up a sacred lake in Bolivia

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Uru Uru team are using giant reeds called ‘totora’ to revive polluted lakes in Bolivia. Environmental activist Gustavo Blanco joins Climate Curiou...

Why climate leadership isn’t about fancy job titles

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate leadership comes from each and everyone of us, not just the United Nations, says Project Drawdown’s Executive Director Jon Foley on the Clim...

How the LA fires brought disability justice to light

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate justice supports disability justice, says Tiffany Yu on Climate Curious. LA resident, disability advocate, and author of "The Anti-Ableist Man...

How climate crashed the Super Bowl

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world’s first climate ad aired at the Super Bowl earlier this year. What was it? How did it crash the world’s biggest stage for advertisers? A...

How eco-rapping is healing the planet

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Hip hop makes the Earth look cool,” says eco-rapper, comedian, and creator who performs as Planet Earth and makes songs and videos about ecologic...

Why time’s up for pollution promoters

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Polluters rely on the social license created by advertising. From airlines on billboards, to SUVs on social media ads, polluters and their promoters w...

How oil executives use slavery’s playbook

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fossil fuel CEOs are pulling from slavery’s playbook. Whilst witnessing the CEO of Shell on stage advocating for continued investment in oil, today’...

How history unlocks climate solutions for today

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“We need to look in the rear view mirror of history and see what we can learn from the past to help us make decisions today.” Social philosopher a...

Why haven't power lines changed since 1908?

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the technology for our power grid outdated? With 20 years experience in material science, co-founder of TS Conductor, Jason Huang thinks so. We hea...

How satellites spy on rainforests, for good

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can satellites save the rainforest? (Spoiler: yes!) Satellite data can help keep rainforests healthy, says Associate Professor Dr. Jesús Aguirre Guti...

How satellites are secret superheroes for rainforests

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The rainforest has some unexpected guardians—satellites! Associate professor Dr. Jesús Aguirre Gutiérrez from the University of Oxford joins Clima...

What are transition minerals?

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Copper, cobalt, nickel and lithium - all essential ingredients for the green transition – but what are they? And why do we need them? Joining Climat...

Why we need new climate stories

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“We need new stories to live by,” says ecolinguist Arran Stibbe on the Climate Curious podcast. Current narratives based on growth and consumerism...

The inequality of mineral mining – and how to fix it

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is critical mineral mining at risk of creating new harms as it solves old ones? Yes, if we don't course correct now. Lithium, cobalt, and nickel are e...

Why parents are taking a love-led approach to climate action

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate action is the new five-a-day for your kids, says Maya Mailer on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. The co-founder of Mothers Rise Up and co-direc...

Climate Mixtape: 2025 vision board

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What’s on your 2025 climate vision board? To get you started, we asked some of our favourite climate peeps what’s on theirs. From protecting indig...

How does cancel culture show up in climate?

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cancel culture is impacting the climate sector – and it’s stalling progress, says writer and strategist Jenny Morgan, in conversation with co...

How communities are taking control of local food production using aeroponics

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Slimy salad stuck to the back of your fridge? We’ve all been there. There’s no worse feeling. First invented by NASA in the 1980s, aeroponics is a...

Why Africa’s workforce are climate leaders, not just labourers

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to climate work in Africa, inequality is rampant between local “workers in the field” and mostly Global North partners in leadership...

How not to get cancelled (or cancel others) over climate

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re talking about how to communicate with sceptics. Empathy, building rapport, and most importantly not letting arguments distract from the ...

How solar panels became the darling of the climate movement

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Solar power is a huge success story. How did it happen? 20+ year solar champion, goose keeper, and BloombergNEF solar analyst Jenny Chase joins Climat...

How methane ‘goggles’ are making pollution visible

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ready yourself: methane success story incoming! Using none other than a satellite and a pair of methane-busting ‘goggles’ (i.e. an infrared camera...

Upskilling newsrooms to tell the story of climate change

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From sports to storms, every beat’s a climate beat, says the content editor at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, Katherine Dunn. In conversatio...

Why a violence prevention pro is turning her attention to climate misinformation

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What’s counter-terrorism got to do with climate change? Good question! Global heat waves have fuelled a surge in climate mis-and disinformation acro...

How people power can help prepare us for climate shocks

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you refuse to stand on the sidelines of climate shocks? You might be an “apocalyptic optimist”, says sociologist Dana R. Fisher on TEDxLondon’...

What’s Ragnarök got to do with climate change?

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ragnarök isn’t just an ancient Norse myth that describes the destruction of the universe and the rebirth of a new world after the cataclysm, it’s...

How the Pacific Climate Warriors took back their story

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Turning pity into power, the Pacific Climate Warriors reclaimed the narrative to bring a new meaning to climate action taking place in climate vulnera...

What do zombies and vampires have to do with climate change?

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Climate curious, or climate creepy? To celebrate our halloween special last year, we're revisiting our chat with disease detective, Neil Vora, to expl...

Why the UK government refuses to defend the UK's biggest undeveloped oilfield

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stop Rosebank campaigner Lauren MacDonald joins Climate Curious to discuss the urgent court case against the approval of the Rosebank oilfield, the UK...

What are regenerative cultures?

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Big Brother star Daze Aghaji, a climate justice activist and artist joins Climate Curious to explain the theory behind regenerative cultures. In conve...

BOSS series: What resilience looks like in Vanuatu

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Not only one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world, Vanuatu is also one of the most resilient. In conversation with Climate Curious’ ...

What the closure of the UK’s last coal plant means

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this week, the closure of the coal-powered Ratcliffe power station in Nottinghamshire was announced. Tessa Khan, the Director of Uplift UK joi...

How Ned’s Forest inspires a new model of environmental stewardship

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How a soul forest is transforming Hyderabad

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ce...

Climate Quickie: Why photography is a powerful climate storytelling tool

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

National Geographic photographer Jaime Rojo joins Climate Curious to share why his photography of the migration of monarch butterflies across North Am...

How electric boats are turning the tide on polluted waterways

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keeping our waterways safe and clean is a major challenge. Daylin Frantin, a clean energy entrepreneur is taking on the challenge by electrifying the ...

Why tackling climate change is art, not just science

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I use socially engaged art to help people visualise their climate vulnerability,” shares lawyer turned climate artist Xavier Cortada on the Clima...

Climate Quickie: Why methane must go

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“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...

Climate Quickie: The extraordinary life of monarch butterflies

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jaime Rojo joins Climate Curious to share his experience photographing the migration of monarch butterflies across North America each year, diving int...

Climate Quickie: How community-led art is sparking climate conversations in Florida

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Socially engaged art is an untapped resource,” says Adam Roberti, the executive director of the Xavier Cortada Foundation on the Climate Curious ...

Climate Quickie: The hidden beauty in climate data

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...