Skip to main content

Climate & Environment

From wildfires and drought, to rising sea levels and conflicts over public lands, California is at the frontline of the climate crisis. Stay up to date on shifting ecologies and dig into the social and political causes of environmental change. Discover local movements that challenge environmental injustice and learn how Californians are innovating and adapting to a new and evolving reality.

A protestor in New Zealand looks on during a strike to raise climate change awareness in September 2019. | Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
Machina Ex Deo
Episode
24:53
Climate California

Machina Ex Deo

How PFAS harm our health — and why they’re everywhere
Episode
Support Provided By

Western Edition: Watersheds West

Western Edition digs into the complex history of how humans dammed, diverted, and exploited water resources in the American West across several hundred years.

west_edit.jpg
What does the future look like in an era of climate catastrophe?
1.jpg
What happened in the Klamath represents a microcosm of the country.
Amy Headshot  (1).jpg
An excerpt from the book "The Water Remembers" by Amy Bowers Cordalis, member and former General Counsel of the Yurok Nation.
Ellen Powell Thompson.jpg
Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.
aqueduct_redo.jpg
High Country News, the only regional magazine serving the western US, reports on how water issues play out in communities across the West.

Climate & Environment Shows