Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough

October 24, 2025

This episode features a field piece by David Condos, who originally reported the story for KUER in Salt Lake City, Utah.
So much of the...

Scorching Premiums: Climate Costs Hit Insurance Markets

August 1, 2025

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans experience destructive and deadly weather disasters, from storms to floods to wildfires....

Disasterology: Navigating Fossil-Fueled Chaos

February 21, 2025

There’s been a big increase in the number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. In just the last five years, those events have killed more...

LA Wildfires: Loss, Recovery and Resilience

January 24, 2025

It’s been more than two weeks since massive infernos started in Los Angeles. New fires just broke out near San Diego. As of when this episode...

BONUS: Wade Crowfoot on Building Wildfire Resilience

June 10, 2024

More than 7% of California has burned in the last five years. Clearly, past methods of wildfire prevention haven’t worked. Now, California is...

Rekindling Our Relationship With Wildfire

June 7, 2024

Summer is just around the corner, and in addition to travel and vacation, that also means peak wildfire season. Recently we’ve seen some of the...

Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas

October 21, 2022

An undeniable reality of the climate crisis is that poorer countries in the Global South are experiencing climate-induced disasters first and...

Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency

July 29, 2022

In 2006, PG&E was perceived to be one of the most progressive utilities in the country. They supported California’s landmark climate law AB 32,...

REWIND: Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene

July 8, 2022

We’re on track for yet another year of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy...

Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home

December 23, 2021

When it comes to rising seas and other climate threats, how do we figure out when to stay and when to go?  The concept of managed retreat –...