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Why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Climate Question is hosted by BBC World Service. The show has published 319 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How could climate change affect my health?" (25 October 2026, 26 minutes), "Mining: Can we learn lessons from the past?" (18 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "Are we ready for a super El Niño?" (11 October 2026, 23 minutes).
The Climate Question publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 319 episodes.
Booking probability for The Climate Question is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Climate Question requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Climate Question's contact route on record: verified email.
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BBC World Service hosts The Climate Question, a science podcast with 319 episodes published.
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The Climate Question
Climate change is having major health impacts around the world - which are only expected to increase as our planet gets warmer. These impacts range from heat stroke to the spread of tropical diseases, from hospitals...
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Lithium and copper are at the heart of the green energy transition, but what's the environmental cost of extraction? From the lithium mines of Salar de Atacama in Chile to the historic copper mines of Butte Montana...
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When a powerful El Niño strikes, it can devastate harvests, flood communities and kill thousands of people. Scientists have been warning for months that this one could become the strongest on record. The question is...
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From Mongolia to Texas, record numbers of lithium-ion batteries are being added to the world's electricity grids - helping to provide more reliable power and speeding up the transition to renewable energy sources such...
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The United Nations says the world will pass its most important climate target within a few years. So can we bring the planet's temperature back down quickly? Or will the damage be irreversible? In 2015, world leaders...
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The Philippines and Pakistan are now the world's top solar panel importers. We find out why, and what other countries can learn from the boom! Cheap solar panels, mainly imported from China, are transforming lives and...
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Huge construction projects are transforming China - think enormous dams, giant solar power farms and a vast high-speed rail network. Will Beijing's "engineering mindset" help it deal with climate change? China's senior...
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As shown by the recent flash floods, Nepali mountain communities are on the front line of climate change. Can they adapt? Host Jordan Dunbar talks to two Sherpas who have become climate researchers. They are...
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Europe is reeling from a record-breaking drought which has closed nuclear power stations, stopped river traffic and sent food prices soaring. And there may now be more intense droughts in some parts of the world because...
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African forests are vital for food and economic development, as well as for supporting millions of species of animals and plants. We find out how to protect them better with one of Africa’s top environmentalists! From...
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As heatwaves increase, air conditioning is becoming less of a luxury and more a lifeline. But what about its climate impact? Graihagh Jackson talks to BBC Tokyo correspondent, Kurumi Mori, and Radhika Khosla, an urban...
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Huge wildfires have been sweeping across Southern Europe and North America. Is climate change increasing the risk? And what can we do? Weather experts say the world is starting to see new types of wildfire – including...
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Graihagh Jackson talks to mothers from India, Kenya and the UK about how climate change is affecting women's decisions about whether to have children and how to raise them. Her guests are Bhavreen Kandhari, a clean air...
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Climate activists have blocked highways, scaled oil rigs and even thrown soup at master artworks. But have protests ever made a difference? The modern green movement started in the 1970s when Greenpeace sailed a fishing...
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Scientists are warning that climate change and deforestation increase the risk of outbreaks of deadly diseases. How big is the danger? And what action can we take? Dr Neil Vora is a so-called “disease doctor” - an...
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The acclaimed US sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson is also a star in the world of climate activism because his work often features climate change - on Earth and beyond. Robinson has been a guest speaker at the COP...
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More than seven billion of us are expected to be living in urban areas by 2050. So what are the world’s great cities doing about climate change? Humans are now city creatures – with more than half the world’s population...
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Scientists say the El Niño weather pattern has started and this one is potentially so strong that it could have devastating effects in many parts of the world. So how does El Niño work exactly? And what’s the connection...
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Parts of India have been facing extreme heat - with temperatures soaring past 46 degrees Celsius. But a less familiar story unfolds after dark. When temperatures stay high after sunset, an essential human need is...
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co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Lambert Family Associate Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School, Dataly Actuarial and Data Consulting
author of Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, Country Bookshelf
Hugo Award-winning science fiction author of the Mars trilogy
Mayor of Freetown, Freetown
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