NPR: Climate Connections Podcast
NPR: Climate Connections Podcast
"NPR's Climate Connections series takes you on a year-long global voyage, exploring how the Earth's climate shapes people, and how ...
Spain Runs Europe's First Commercial Solar Plant
Spain is making use of its 300 sunny days per year by powering thousands of homes with Europe's first commercial solar-thermal tower plant ...
France Moves Ahead With Nuclear Waste Project
France has finally settled on a place to put the nuclear waste from all of its power plants, even though the country is still uncomfortable ...
Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities
In Egypt, where antiquities have stood for millennia, climate change is posing new threats to an ancient country and its people. As ...
In Cairo Slum, the Poor Spark Environmental Change
In one of the city's poorest areas, residents who recycle trash by hand and a handful of environmental activists are slowly improving their ...
Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City
Planners hope to transform an empty stretch of desert into Masdar, a city of 50,000, within a decade. They aim for it to be powered ...
Oil-Rich Abu Dhabi Builds Renewable-Energy City
In the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi sits on nearly 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. So it may be surprising to hear that climate ...
Slow but Sure Environmental Progress in Cairo
A short distance from the new $30 million Al-Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt, young environmentalists are installing solar hot-water heaters in ...
Global Warming Solutions for Egypt, U.S.
NPR's Science Editor David Malakoff joins Liane Hansen in the studio to reflect not only on the three climate change stories reported from ...