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Episodes
Galloping Goats and Grazing Management
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Holidays! In this episode we talked to Max Wade, the owner of Galloping Goat Grazing, and Michael "Scial" Scialdone, Bosque Project Ma...
Rangeland Restoration in the Great Basin
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Charlie Clements leads the Great Basin Rangeland Research Unit of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service...
Beekeeping Program at Institute of American Indian Arts
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, three fourths of the world's flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world's food crop...
Celebrating Milestones: 10 Years of Supporting Resilience
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we are celebrating major milestones and want to share those with you. The Climate Hub network just celebrated its 10 year anniversary. As p...
Science And Practical Solutions To Support Ecological Restoration
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elise Gornish discusses her research on restoration and weed management strategies to minimize the effects of changing climatic conditions - espec...
Reforestation: The Trees Are Planted, Now What?
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last episode in our reforestation pipeline series. The success of a reforestation effort largely depends on proper post-planting care and ...
Reforestation: Plant Here, Not There
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our discussion of the reforestation pipeline. Last month, we discussed how reforestation efforts are critical after high s...
Reforestation: The John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus episode is a re-release of our July 2023 episode highlighting the John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center in Mora, New Mexico, which ai...
Reforestation: It All Starts With A Seed
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Joshua Sloan and Rachael Foe discuss the process of conifer seed selection and harvest for reforestation efforts in the Southwest, from selecting ...
Exploring Nature-Based Solutions
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nature-based solutions - what are they exactly? Is there a standard definition? And even though the term is new to us, are the practices themselves ac...
Burping Cows! Measuring Methane Emissions from Cattle
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to 2022 statistics published by the US EPA, enteric fermentation (a digestive pathway that produces gasses in the gut) by cattle accounted f...
Agrivoltaics: Producing Food and Energy in the Same Place
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agrivoltaics is the combination of agriculture and photovoltaics to create co-benefits across food, energy, and water systems. There is a lot of resea...
Solutions for Sustaining Environmental Flows
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Flows in the Rio Chama, a tributary of the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico,have dwindled from drought and rising temperatures as well as diversion f...
Climate Change, Coastlines, and Aquaculture
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How is climate change affecting our coasts and ocean? What about aquaculture? Halley Froehlich, an expert in climate change impacts to coasts and ocea...
Fifth National Climate Assessment, Southwest Chapter: Health, Water, Agriculture, and Wildfire
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our discussion of the Southwest Chapter of the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Each Chapter of NCA5 is organized around Key Messag...
Inside the Fifth National Climate Assessment, Southwest Chapter
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drs. Emile Elias and Dave White discuss the Southwest chapter of the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5). They share what it was like to be lead au...
Harvesting Hope: Tackling Food Waste, Hunger, and Climate Change
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with the directors of two non-profit organizations who are turning problems into solutions by getting nutritious food that would normally go ...
Indigenous Agriculture and Climate Resilience
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with our agriculture theme, this month we are joined by Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson (Hopi Tribe of Arizona) who discusses Indigenous agricu...
The Scoop on Kernza®, a Multi-functional Perennial Grain Crop
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kernza® is a small perennial grain with multiple environmental benefits, including carbon sequestration. We are joined by Nicole Tautges (Michael Fie...
Old Growth Grasslands
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Old growth” is a term often associated with forests, however scientists are beginning to realize that this concept also applies to other types of...
A Closer Look at California Wildfires
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s behind the increasing size and severity of California’s wildfires? And if the trajectory continues, what does that mean for people living t...
After-Fire Reforestation: The John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center in Mora, New Mexico, aims to advance the understanding of restoration activities on forested areas in ...
Cultural Burning in Northern California
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional burning, also known as cultural burning, is a form of under burning that has been used by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years to inc...
Sarah Ray on Navigating Climate Anxiety
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk about Climate Hope on this show, but what about Climate Anxiety? Perhaps even Climate Despair? These are very real emotions that many of...
Microgravity Drip Irrigation: Innovative Way to Get “More Crop Per Drop”
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Water scarcity solutions, especially those solutions that allow for continued food production while reducing water use, are a critical component of co...
Biochar: Uses and Potential Benefits
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have been hearing a lot about biochar recently. Biochar is the charred material leftover after partially burning organic material, which is then us...
Managing Cultural Resources in a Changing Climate
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The impacts of climate change are threatening the resources in our national parks, including many of the cultural resources within them. This month we...
Climate Hope, the Compilation
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We always like to ask our guests on this show what gives them hope as they think about the future and our changing climate, particularly with regard t...
Rangelands and Climate change
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ecological sites are the basic component of a land-type classification system that describes ecological potential and ecosystem dynamics of land areas...
Teaching Science Through Agriculture and Place Based Learning
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Science education is critical in responding to future challenges, both in building awareness in our community and also building the skills to respond ...
Precipitation Intensity: Research, Challenges, and Opportunities
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month we heard from two experts on drought and aridity; this month we’re covering the other end of the spectrum and focusing on precipitation i...
Megadrought and Aridity
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Megadrought is a term we’ve been hearing a lot of lately, with, as we find out from one of our guests, somewhat varying definitions. The term megadr...
Mike Hoffmann on Our Changing Menu: How Climate Change Affects the Foods We Grow
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Dr. Mike Hoffmann about climate change and the foods we love and need. Dr. Hoffmann is one of the authors of Our Changing Menu, a book pu...
Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability of Navajo Nation Forests
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Warming temperatures can exacerbate forest drought stress, reducing defenses to bark beetle outbreaks, wildfire, and tree diseases. Concern about loss...
Behind the Scenes of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Carolyn Enquist and Dr. Dave Gutzler discuss the making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, particula...
Assessing Risk When Relocating Species
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our series on managing for ecosystem transformation, we sit down with Dr. Mark Schwartz, a plant ecologist at UC Davis, and Aviv Karasov-Ol...
Managing for Change: California’s Giant Sequoias
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are extreme events transforming sequoia forests in the western US.? And what are land managers doing about it? Dr. Christy Brigham, Chief of Resou...
Forest Transformation in the Southwest
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Impacts from rapid climate change are challenging traditional land & wildlife management strategies that were based on a stable baseline condition...
Sustainability In Beef Supply Chains
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion around sustainability challenges and opportunities within the U.S. beef supply chain. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Sheri Spiegal, a ...
Katharine Hayhoe On Hope & Healing In A Divided World
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with world-renowned climate scientist and Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, on her most recent book title...
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) project is a collaborative effort to establish experimental trials of climate change adaptation st...
Wire Up Those Cows! New Gadgets For An Old Profession
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Drs. Sheri Spiegal, Shelemia Nyamuryekung'e, and Matt McIntosh roll up their sleeves and dig into answering some of the question...
Drought & the 2021 Monsoon Season
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2020 and the first half of 2021 were brutal drought years for the Southwest U.S. continuing a much longer term regional drought. But this monsoon se...
Water Desalination: Barriers and Opportunities
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month we take a closer look at desalination of brackish groundwater and/or seawater as a potential solution to augment water supply in the arid s...
Extreme Heat & Urban Planning
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our conversation around the topic of extreme heat. We visit with three experts in urban planning to discuss how we can mit...
Extreme Heat & Public Health
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Extreme heat kills on average more than 600 people in the U.S. each year. Over the course ...
Drought Adaptation & Social Learning
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taking action to manage drought and adapt to changing conditions can sometimes have unintended impacts on the adaptive capacity of others in the same ...
CoCoRaHS: Citizen Science in Weather Reporting
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CoCoRaHS is an acronym for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volun...
Drought, Snowpack, and Streamflow
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this continuation of our special series on drought, we interview two water and climate scientists to learn what streamflow forecasts are predicting...
Grass-Cast: A Grassland Productivity Forecasting Tool
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this mid-month bonus episode we interview Dr. Dannele Peck, Director of the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub, about a rangeland/grassland forage pr...
Drought Impacts on Mental Health
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drought impacts more than our physical world - the psychological impacts of drought are also very real. Crop damage or failure, running out of forage ...
Drought & Natural Resources Management
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As of March 1st 2020, 85% of Arizona and 82% of New Mexico were in extreme to exceptional drought--the most severe drought categories used by the U.S....
Talking Wine, Weather, and Science: Part 2
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is climate change already impacting viticulture (the cultivation of grapevines)? How might a changing climate affect wine production? Is today a bette...
Talking Wine, Weather, and Science: Part 1
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you drink wine? Do you know how many varieties of wine there are in the world? What’s enology? What makes a vintage unique? Join us as we sit dow...
Climate Hope
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Ann Marie Chischilly, a member of the Navajo Nation and Executive Director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)...
Novel Strategies in Beef Production
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andres Cibils reflects on the first year of the Sustainable Southwest Beef Project - what's been accomplished, what's in the works, and ...
The Nitty Gritty of Dust
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drs. Dave Dubois, New Mexico State Climatologist, and Nick Webb, research scientist at the Jornada Experimental Range, discuss the nitty gritty of...
Santa Cruz River Lives Again
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Urban expansion and mismanagement of the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona had led to a dry river bed for much of the year. Using effluent (treated...
2020 Fire Season: Grim, Smoky, Flexible
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How would you sum up the 2020 fire season in just one word? Tim Brown, Royce Fontenot, and Megan Friggens share their impressions of the current fire ...
USDA Rural Development: Financing Climate Adaptation
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are times when community resilience needs to be financially supported for a vision of sustainability and resilience to become reality. This mont...
Precision Ranching Technologies
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From smartphones to remote-controlled home appliances, the “internet of things” is everywhere. In this episode, Dr. Tony Waterhouse, professor eme...
The Sustainable Southwest Beef Project
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sustainable Southwest Beef Project is a 5-year project funded by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research In...
Atmospheric Rivers
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) are narrow streams of moisture in the atmosphere that transport water vapor from the tropics to other regions. In the U.S., t...