How does climate change sound? We interview Martin Parker, Prof Doug Parker, Prof Benjamin Lamptey and Freddy Gadrie, who transformed climate information from Ghana and Niger into music through data sonification. Using data from the past and climate projections of the future, this team of curious scientists and musicians use a different approach to…

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic officially kicked off on July 23rd against the controversial backdrop of surging covid-19 cases and an eerily quiet Tokyo city. On top of this, there are mounting concerns and evidence of how climate change related extreme heat and high levels of humidity are posing risks and impacting athletes at these Olympic games. The Rin…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science of climate change. During the last 4 years, scientists from around the world have been working on the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), that will provide key information about the current state of climate change, future projections, adaptation a…

The Climate Press presents: Climate Strike A documentary inspired by the Fridays for Future climate strikes originally broadcast on BCB Radio as part of the Bradford Science Festival Written, produced, edited, and presented by Tom Wood twitter.com/TomWoodScience The documentary features many interviews with protestors at last year’s Fridays For Fut…

We're hosting a live panel discussion about the power and potential of local collective climate action! Panelists Paul Chatterton (University of Leeds), Ergon Theatre Company (Manchester), and Zero Waste Leeds will be discussing how local climate action intersects with city planning, performing arts, and fashion. Please register to join us on Tuesd…

On this episode we share with you some tips and tricks on how to start you own podcast from scratch without any previous experience. From advice on web hosts to the podcast edition process, we interview ourselves and talk about our own experiences with The Climate Press, how did we start, how did we find our guests, our blogs, etc. At the end all y…

Earlier this year, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) announced plans to become the first net-zero health service in the world. In this episode The Climate Press ventures on a mission to understand what this declaration means in practice for our health services. We speak with Alexis Percival, an Environmental and Sustainability Lead with the NH…

EUREC4A, is an international initiative in support of the World Climate Research Programme's Grand Science Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. The field campaign took place between 20 January and 20 February 2020 with operations based out of Barbados. On this episode we have a very special interviewer, Anna Lesbros, a 14-year-…

Trees are very powerful natural machines that absorb tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, store it, and use it to grow. Depending on the type of tree and where they are, different trees can have different effects on climate. Trees are also considered part of a solution to improve urban air quality. There's no doubt, trees are cool, but are they a sol…

Our guests in this episode, Stephanie and James, work across spheres of science and art to explore educational, evidence-based forms of climate outreach. From creating graphic novels to building interactive model cities, our two guests describe powerful approaches for getting people to visualise future scenarios of what their society could look lik…

In this episode we talk with Petra Tschakert, Centenary Professor in Rural Development at the University of Western Australia, and James Ford, Professor in Climate Adaptation at the University of Leeds. Petra and James have worked at local level with communities from Senegal, Ghana, the Himalayas, India, Nepal, Australia, Northern Canada and Greenl…

Ice holds one of the best climatic records that we have for atmospheric CO2 with deposits dating back hundreds of thousands of years ago. In this episode we're joined by palaeo-climatologists Lauren Gregoire (Academic Research Fellow in Earth System Modelling) and Ruza Ivanovic (Lecturer in Climatology) from the University of Leeds. Tune in as we e…

Following episode 3, we now explore the first signs of the healing of the ozone hole as well as emerging issues such as new sources of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). We will learn a bit more about how the ozone hole impacts climate conditions in the southern hemisphere and the relationship between global warming and ozone depletion. Will the ozone hol…

The ozone layer is located between 10 and 15 km up in a layer of the atmosphere called the stratosphere. It plays a key role for us since it absorbs ultraviolet radiation coming from the Sun and avoids further damage on the living beings of our planet. In the mid 1980's, a big reduction in the thickness of the ozone layer was discovered over the An…

With more and more scientists, students, and protesters calling attention to climate change, why aren't these warnings having a greater impact on our everyday decisions and actions? In this episode we talk with Astrid Kause, Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Centre for Decision Research at the University of Leeds, about how people understand and tr…

From John Tyndall and the greenhouse gas effect to the Kyoto Protocol , Kate Sambrook guides us on an exciting journey through space and time where we explore the pivotal moments in the history of climate change science. These discoveries led us to our current understanding on climate change and were the key physical science basis of several intern…

On March 15th, over 1.4 million students and supporters across the world, changed the classroom for the streets to fight against what Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish activist, classified as "the biggest crisis in human history": climate change. The Climate Press talked with students, professionals and academics at the Youth Strike for Climate i…