Mint Climate Change Tracker

About Mint Climate Change Tracker

Cities like Mumbai will be regularly submerged by 2050. At around the same time, most of Himalayan glaciers will vanish. The world could heat up by 4 degrees Celsius by 2100. We are facing a crisis. Hosted by Bibek Bhattacharya (Twitter: @sarvatathagata), Deputy Editor, Mint Lounge, Mint Climate Change Tracker is a weekly podcast about the challenges posed by a rapidly heating planet. Also follow Bibek's weekly column in Mint Lounge, the Climate Change Tracker, with #MintClimateTracker. This is a Mint production brought to you by HT Smartcast.

Publisher

Mint - HT Smartcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Nov 2019

Latest episode

14 Aug 2020

Latest episodes

1 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Aug 2020

   27: The Season Finale | What I learned from the experts | A climate pledge

   In the final episode of the second season, host Bibek Bhattacharya recaps his conversations with Indian climate change experts and talks about what he has learned this season.

2. 

   8 Aug 2020

   26: Intense rains in Mumbai and western India I In conversation with scientist Minal Pathak I India's climate change costs

   In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with environmental scientist Dr Minal Pathak on climate change and cities, climate justice and much more. Plus monsoon floods hit western India. Also find out how much climate change will cost India.

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   31 Jul 2020

   25: Assam and Bihar floods I In conversation with Amitangshu Acharya I How dams and embankments lead to floods |

   Monsoon is here and so are devastating floods in Assam and Bihar. In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks to water researcher Amitangshu Acharya on how our obsession with controlling rivers is leading to more floods.

Inside a recent episode

20: India's climate change risks I In conversation with Arunabha Ghosh I India's energy future

Published 26 Jun 2020 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We need to design a climate risk atlas to map out our critical vulnerabilities, whether it's in terms of heat stress, coastal flooding, biodiversity loss, inland drought, disease and so forth. Why do I say this? It's because even now our understanding of these risks is at a very low resolution level. […]

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