In Season 1 of Threshold, we reported on the decades-long fight to get the federal government to transfer the National... more

A few weeks ago, Yellowstone National Park released a draft plan for managing bison in the park. In this dispatch,... more

Yellowstone National Park recently released a new plan for managing the bison herd. It’s in draft form, and maps out... more

A lyrical ode to our atmosphere: the invisible, underappreciated substance that makes all life on Earth possible.  There are quite... more

A few weeks ago, the Biden administration approved the Willow project. It’s a plan to extract 600 million barrels of... more

Representatives from nearly every country in the world are in Egypt right now for COP27, the annual climate conference hosted... more

In many ways, the climate crisis is an identity crisis. As we reckon with the damage we’ve done, we’re being... more

The climate crisis is not just a problem of carbon emissions: it's one of inequality. In fact, global warming and... more

The UN climate talks, or COPs, are attempting the biggest, most complicated, highest-stakes group project humanity has ever known. They... more

The UN climate talks, or COPs, are a lot of different things: they're confusing, bureaucratic, inspiring, boring, infuriating, and exhilarating.... more

If the steel industry were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter. So to prevent a climate catastrophe,... more

Listening to Threshold is free, but creating it is not.We have always been committed to making the best show we... more

For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is... more

Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars,... more

One of the most challenging aspects of the climate crisis is that we have to do everything at once -... more

A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international... more

We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to... more

The number of things at stake in the climate crisis do not fit inside one episode. It's hard to even... more

Britain was the first place in the world to go through what we now call the Industrial Revolution, a transformation... more

There are quite a few things working against us when it comes to understanding how urgently we need to act... more