The Climate Podcast highlights the best news, features, commentary and analysis from Nature Reports Climate Change, as well as the hottest topics on the Climate Feedback blog. Tune in for interviews with the people behind the science, insights from journalists covering the research and opinions from climate experts. Keep up to date on the latest in climate research as well as its implications for policy, the economy and society.

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2008 Podcasts

• • 24 April 2008: Audio (mp3 file)
  • In this extract from the Nature Podcast, Werner Kurz talks about his latest paper in Nature, showing that Canada's beetle infestation is turning its boreal forests into carbon sources.
• • 15 February 2008: Audio (mp3 file)
  • In episode three, we find out how the US government tried to silence climate scientist James Hansen, what’s behind the recent backlash against biofuels, and how the Antarctic is losing ice at an unprecedented rate, and author Gabrielle Walker tells us why we're nearing the last chance saloon on an international climate change deal.

2007 Podcasts

• • 29 December 2007: Audio (mp3 file)
  • In episode two we report from the UNFCCC conference in Bali, Indonesia, where we've been talking to residents of Tuvalu and the Carteret Islands, whose livelihoods are already threatened by climate change, finding out how to fund climate adaptation measures in developing countries, discussing the impact of deforestation on climate change, and attending the tremendously unprestigious 'fossil of the day' awards.
• • 29 November 2007: Audio (mp3 file)
  • In the first episode, Olive Heffernan discovers the elements that could tip us over into dangerous climate change, asks what the future looks like for the IPCC, learns how the ‘escalator effect’ is killing off species and gets the lowdown on the ‘son of Kyoto’ ahead of the UN Climate Change meeting in Bali.