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 communicate climate change and raise awareness of the future impacts of changes in climate and weather patterns. We hope you enjoy it! Visit our website: https://www.theclimatepress.com/podcast ..read more

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 Rings of Fire report published in May 2021 and produced by the British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) brings together scientists and athletes to discuss these risks and impacts. We sit down with two authors of the report: our v ..read more

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 and mitigation. Dr Amanda Maycock, Associate Professor in Climate Dynamics at the University of Leeds, has been a lead author in Working Group I, which assesses the physical science basis of climate change. She shares with us her experience as a first ..read more

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 Tuesday October 20th from 18:30 – 20:00 (UK) Looking forward to seeing you there ..read more

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 you need is a good idea and willingness to make it happen! We hope you enjoy it, and remember: make love, not CO2 ..read more

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 NHS Ambulance Service, about some of the challenges and the momentum needed to even begin this journey towards becoming net-zero. We even look beyond the NHS and speak with Dr. Tim Keady, a Specialist Registrar (SpR) in Anaesthesiology with the H ..read more

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-old student that came from France to Leeds to discover how research is carried out at the University. Anna will infiltrate in the heart of the field campaign and interview 8 members of the Eurec4a project: - Anna-Lea Albright (PhD student at LMD, Par ..read more

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 solution to climate change ..read more

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 like with lower carbon emissions.  Working to open the climate change discourse through exploratory learning, collaborative dreaming, collective storytelling, and crowd-sourced visions, James and Stephanie remind us of the importance of m ..read more

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 explore ice sheets and glacial periods of the past, present, and future. Where are the main ice sheets and how do they affect sea level rise in comparison to sea ice? We discuss not only how these massive ice sheets change, but also what the eff ..read more