How the sea is helping save our crops from drought
Across the world, farmers live between floods and droughts. The ground drinks too fast, then cracks too soon. As climate patterns grow more erratic, the balance between water and soil has never been more fragile.
At the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, a team of designers, chemists, and engineers has been working on a material called AquaSteady—a hydrogel made from seaweed that could change how the world grows food. The idea is deceptively simple: take a substance nature already designed to hold water, and use it to help soil do the same.
17 Jun 2026
Where Carbon Hides: Inside the Science of Nature’s Climate Solution
We talk constantly about cutting carbon emissions — but what happens to the carbon already in the air? It turns out nature has been answering that question for millennia. Forests, estuaries, salt marshes, and grasslands are quietly doing the heavy lifting of carbon capture every single day. The question is: do we understand them well enough to help?
CARBS — the Convergence to Accelerate Research on Biological Sequestration — is a Pacific Northwest initiative bringing together an unlikely coalition: data scientists, ecologists, genomics researchers, AI engineers, land stewards, and Indigenous tribal partners. Together, they're mapping the invisible journey of carbon through soil, water, and living systems at a scale and resolution never attempted before.
In this episode, we go inside the project — from flux towers measuring the breath of a salt marsh, to eDNA forensics reconstructing what an estuary looked like before industrialisation, to AI pipelines stitching together satellite imagery with microbial data from the ground. We also hear from the Coquille Indian Tribe, whose thousands of years of landscape knowledge aren't just a cultural asset — they're a scientific one.
This is what the future of climate science looks like: not top-down, not lab-bound, but co-produced, place-based, and built to last.
12 May 2026
Making Cities More Liveable With Nature
Cities have always been engines of creativity and resilience—but they’ve also been built on a fundamental mistake: leaving nature out. For decades, concrete and steel have replaced forests and wetlands, shaping urban environments that trap heat, pollute air, and isolate communities.
Now, a global movement is reimagining what cities can be. Through nature-based solutions—sometimes called green infrastructure or ecosystem-based adaptation—scientists, planners, and policymakers are designing urban spaces that work with nature, not against it.
The NATURA network connects researchers and city leaders across seven world regions to rethink how nature shapes urban life. Their latest achievement, the Global Roadmap on Urban Nature-Based Solutions, is the first region-by-region assessment of how cities can integrate nature into infrastructure, planning, and policy.
From cooling heat-stricken neighbourhoods to reducing stormwater runoff and restoring biodiversity, nature-based solutions are proving scalable, adaptable, and practical. Projects like Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream Park—where a concrete drainage channel was transformed into a thriving ecological park—demonstrate how cities can rebuild both ecosystems and community life.
The Roadmap gathers lessons from more than 80 experts and countless real-world projects, creating a practical guide for city governments, urban planners, and local communities worldwide. It calls for hybrid systems that blend grey and green infrastructure and for policies that make nature a core part of urban design.
Nature-based solutions are no longer niche experiments; they are essential tools for climate resilience and human well-being. The message is clear: this isn’t just about surviving climate change—it’s about reimagining the cities we want to live in.
5 May 2026
No Ocean, No Life
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28 Apr 2026
Green Bank – The Quietest Place in America
efore we could see the stars, we learned to listen for them. Radio telescopes have revealed star-forming regions invisible to the human eye, mapped the structure of the Milky Way, and spun off the very technology — Wi-Fi, mobile networks — now threatening to drown them out. This is the story of Green Bank Observatory: the people protecting our ability to hear the universe, and the fragile silence they depend on.
22 Apr 2026
The Library Beneath the Sea — what ocean sediment tells us about climate
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13 Apr 2026
Decarbonising Data Centres – Carbon First
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6 Jan 2025
Biosphere 2 | Hope in the Face of Global Climate Change
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10 Dec 2024
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