Podcast #50: What Warsaw achieved, chilling effect of the Arctic 30 arrests + the most anti-environment ad ever?

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Typhoon Haiyan fails to whip up a frenzy of action in Warsaw
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Could the Arctic 30 arrests have a chilling effect on direct action?
4. Marine reserves in the Antarctic stymied
5. Is this the most anti-environment ad ever?

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Dispatch from Kiribati (Business Week)
Surveying deforestation since 2000 (Google/USGS/University of Maryland/Living on Earth)

90 emitters responsible for climate change (Guardian)

Podcast #48: Global reaction to the IPCC report, the latest on detained Greenpeace activists + turbine rock

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Reaction around the world to the IPCC's fifth climate report
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Latest on 30 Greenpeace activists detained in Russia
4. Using goats at green mowers
5. The great gig in the sky (actually on a wind turbine)

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Crowdsourcing climate data from smart phones (BBC Inside Science)
Interactive: How hot will it get in your lifetime? (Guardian)
Bill McKibben on his latest book (PRI Living On Earth)

Can we really divest fossil fuels?

There is a student movement sweeping college campuses in the US. It calls for colleges to pull their investments - or to divest - from fossil fuel companies.

At least 300 schools have active campaigns - some bigger than others, and some further along than others, but still 300 is impressive.

Their manifesto is an article by the journalist-turned-activist Bill McKibben which appeared in Rolling Stone magazine almost a year ago. It argues that divestment on college campuses helped bring about the end of Apartheid, so why not climate change?

Podcast #47: The Divest movement sweeping the US, Singapore haze + The month's best environmental web picks

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. The Divest Fossil Fuel movement sweeping the US
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Singapore battles the dreaded haze
4. Britain's energy quagmire
5. A farmer responds to the suggestion of feeding his cows insects

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Podcast #45: Is the US oil industry causing quakes? Pope Francis the Green + Teeny weeny froglets

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Can pumping wastewater from the oil industry underground cause earthquakes?
2. The ExxonMobil pipeline spill in Arkansas
3. Combatting ash dieback by planting more trees
4. Stricter sulphur limits for car fuels in the US
5. Are MSC-labelled fish being mislabelled? (Answer: No)
6. Will Pope Francis be the greenest pontiff yet?
7. Breeding frogs in captivity to save a species 

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Episode #44: The battle to stop ivory poaching, Fish fraud in the US + The electric Grand Prix

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Efforts to stop the deepening crisis over ivory poaching
2. Fish fraud: A third of US products mislabelled
3. More than 7,500 dead pigs found in Chinese river
4. Keystone XL passes environmental impact report
5. Mars Rover finds evidence that life could have existed
6. 2012 saw second steepest CO2 rise since records began
7. President Obama appoints environment champions
8. Should weather forecasters talk about climate change
9. Formula One to go electric 

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Podcast #42: President Obama's climate pledge, Beijing air pollution + Why mackerel is off the menu

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. President Obama's inaugural address
2. Why mackerel could be off the menu in Europe
3. NASA prepares to launch latest Earth-monitoring satellite
4. A global treaty to phase out mercury
5. BP to pay penalties totalling $4bn
6. Shell not responsible for oil leaks in Niger Delta
7. McDonald's to use sustainable fish
8. Beijing's air pollution goes off the scale 

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Podcast #41: Aussie bushfires, A setback for Shell's Arctic drilling plans + Your chance to be an astronaut

 This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Bushfires engulf southern Australia
2. Beached Kulluk drilling platform proves a major headache for Shell
3. Report: Half of the food produced on Earth is wasted
4. Transocean to plead guilty over Gulf oil spill
5. Kenya's largest ivory poaching massacre
6. Lake Ellsworth team downs tools
7. Ghana bans imports of fridges
8. Record price paid for bluefin tuna in Japan
9. Wanted: Volunteers to colonise Mars

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