COAL + ICE Podcast

Global conversations on how climate change is playing out around the world and what's being done to bend the curve. With host Mary Kay Magistad, a former NPR and PRI China correspondent, now associate director for U.S. Programs at the Center on U.S.-China Relations.

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Episodes

Ep7: Sci-Fi Takes on Climate Change

A growing number of sci-fi and speculative fiction writers around the world are imaging what a future with climate change will look like, and how we might respond to it.
Ep6: Making Our Urban Future Livable

Most of us on earth now live in cities. By 2050, more than two-thirds of us will. And by the end of this century, demographers predict, 85% of the world’s population will live in cities.
Ep5: Feeding the World in a Climate Change Future

We've all got to eat. And climate change is throwing us new challenges as to how to feed a global population that's getting bigger, more urban, and more affluent — and make sure the world's poorest have enough nutritious food too.
Ep4: Going, Going, Gone

Enjoy nature? Well, do it while you can. We’re losing as many as 200 species a day, scientists say — plants, animals, birds, bugs — with cascading effects for all other species, including humans. And it's humans — our factories, cars,
Ep3: Himalayas' Melting Glaciers Impact Billions

Climate change is now rapidly melting glaciers in the Himalayas — up to two-thirds of them may be gone by the end of this century — throwing ecosystems throughout the region off-balance.
Ep2: What Polar Ice Is Telling Us

Polar ice has a story to tell. Glaciologist Martin Siegert says we're heading toward a "stupid warm" future, and it's time to get smart. He lays it all out here — what's happening, what the ice is telling us, and what we need to do now.
Ep1: Burning Up

In this first episode of the COAL+ICE podcast, top climate journalists talk about what these choices look like in China, South Africa and Brazil and what's being done, and needs to be done, to bend the curve on climate change.