In our final episode of Season 2, we look at the ongoing loss of biodiversity, why it matters, and how we should be thinking about it moving forward. To help us understand the current moment and the stakes of what we're facing, we sit down with Chris Neill, Senior Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, and Richard Primack, Professor of Plant Ecology at Boston University.

Don't forget you can register here to attend our live taping on Tuesday 4/21! https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/schiller-institute/programs-initiatives/climate-reveal-podcast.html

In this episode, we take a deep dive (see what we did there?) into the rich, complicated world of our planet's oceans. We explore how the climate crisis has already impacted our oceans locally and globally, what the biggest challenges will be moving forward, and potential solutions to help our oceans heal from the damage we've already done. We're joined by Gareth Lawson, Senior Scientist in Ocean Conservation at the Conservation Law Foundation, and Raffaele Ferrari, Professor of Oceanography at MIT. (Apologies for some slight audio quality issues in the studio)

Don't forget you can register here to attend our live taping on Tuesday 4/21: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/schiller-institute/programs-initiatives/climate-reveal-podcast.html

In today's episode, we dig into something impacting homes across the country - the cost of energy. We break down why energy has become so expensive, what that means for our efforts to combat the climate crisis, and how to think about energy cost moving forward with Barbara Kates-Garnick, Professor of Practice in Energy Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and former Undersecretary of Energy for Massachusetts, and Dan Dolan, President of the New England Power Generators Association.

In today's episode, we explore the world of hydropower and the role it can (and already does) play in solving our energy needs as we look to the future. We sit down with Bob King, owner of three New England-based hydropower plants, and Noah Snyder, professor and chair of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Boston College.

In this episode, we take a close look at how the climate crisis is impacting the Arctic and what it means for all of us. We're joined by Rebecca Jackson, an Assistant Professor at Tufts University in Earth and Climate Sciences who has made several research trips to the Arctic, and David Balton, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and formerly the Executive Director of the White House Arctic Executive Steering Committee.

In this episode, we unpack adaptation. We know the climate is changing, and while mitigation can still lessen the damage, our future is going to be massively impacted by how we adapt to the changing climate around us. We sit down with Paul Kirshen, a faculty member at UMass Boston and Tufts University and climate adaptation expert, and Kate Dineen, President and CEO of A Better City, a Boston-area non-profit that focuses on regional climate and transportation issues.

We've touched on the use for and impact of climate models in past episodes, but today we take a deep dive into the world of climate modeling - how it works, what the challenges are, what climate models can help us understand about our future, and how to best communicate this information to a world that needs to know what's coming next in order to adapt and prepare. We're joined in studio by Yi Ming, Core Faculty Member at Schiller Institute and Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Boston College, and Jennifer Morris, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.

In an all-Eagle kickoff to Season 2, we talk with two Boston College professors who traveled to Brazil to attend UN COP30. Hanqin Tian, Professor of Global Sustainability at Schiller Institute, and Director of the Center for Earth System Science & Global Sustainability (who attended the first week of the conference) and Tara Pisani Gareau, Director of Environmental Studies Program, and Professor of the Practice in Earth & Environmental Science at Boston College (who attended the second week of the conference), join us in studio to talk about what they saw, heard, and learned, and what events like COP30 mean in the ongoing response to the climate crisis.

In our final episode of Season 1, we talk about the basics of nuclear power, where the technology stands currently, and how it can help us reduce emissions while still meeting our rising energy needs. We sit down with Devon Battaglia, Senior Manager of Physics Operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), and Jacopo Buongiorno, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, to talk about advancements in nuclear fission and fusion and the impact nuclear power can have on our future.

In Episode 3, we talked about energy essentials - now, we dig a little deeper into renewable energy sources specifically. We discuss the potential solutions renewables offer and the obstacles still in our way with Richard Sweeney, Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College, and Barry Reaves, Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice and Workforce Development for The Alliance for Climate Transition (ACT).