The Adaptors
The Adaptors
Flora Lichtman and SoundVision Productions
A podcast about life on Earth during a weird time: now. We visit people who are thinking about the future and figuring out how we will adapt to a changing planet. Hosted by Science Friday alum Flora Lichtman, produced by Freakonomics Radio/The Atlantic alum Katherine Wells.
Assisting Evolution
Grist reporter Amelia Urry visits an Australian lab, where scientists are trying to grow coral that can survive in the future. And a farewell from Flora and Katherine.  
Dec 17, 2015
14 min
Imagine Earthships [video]
Outside of Taos, NM, you'll find a community of people living in off-grid homes made of garbage. We visited them.
Dec 3, 2015
7 min
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There's a Weird Vibe on the Bus
Michael Reynolds builds off-grid homes out of garbage. Meet the Earthship.
Nov 19, 2015
14 min
REBROADCAST: Yak Life
Wild yaks live on the roof of the world, a frosty high-elevation plateau north of the Himalayas. Conservation biologist Joel Berger, of the University of Montana and the Wildlife Conservation Society, wanted to find out how climate change might affect yaks, so he paid them a visit. 
Nov 5, 2015
8 min
He Bought the Water
Reporter Ryan Bradley follows up on his quest to buy water.
Oct 22, 2015
13 min
Spore Power
When you hear "renewable energy," you think solar and wind. But what about spores? Columbia University's Ozgur Sahin explains.
Oct 8, 2015
7 min
How We Measure the Earth Breathing
What do Algerian monks have to do with 400 parts per million? Reporter Jeff Delviscio investigates how we measure CO2 in the atmosphere.
Sep 24, 2015
13 min
Dogs in the Forest
Dogs evolved in response to environmental changes tens of millions of years ago. Can that tell us anything about how animals might adapt to climate change today?
Sep 10, 2015
6 min
Born in the Anthropocene
Jeremy and Charlie, 11 year old students, are worried about climate change. They say it's because their generation will be the one to bear the brunt of its effects.
Aug 27, 2015
11 min
Fixing the Sky
Historian James Fleming talks about the surprising history of weather control and what past failures can tell us about today's geoengineering proposals.
Aug 13, 2015
16 min
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