Climate news, culture and commentary from the team behind Drilled and Hot Take.
We're pissed off and full of dread and tired of hiding it. Buckle up, folks, Mary and Amy get real... more
Will we hear anything about climate in Harris's first debate with Trump? What can we glean from Project 2025 about... more
This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails... more
In his new book, On the Move, ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten digs into the ways climate change is re-shaping... more
Over the years we've talked a lot about the intersection between civil rights and climate change. Now Mary Annaïse Heglar... more
In a new story co-published by Grist and Drilled, Microsoft employees who spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties... more
Hot Take co-hosts Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt are back with a new show blending climate news updates and... more
Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report... more
When Celine Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team... more
Rhiana Gunn-Wright was one of the architects of the Green New Deal, and today works as the climate policy director... more
Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, and it's a children's book about climate change. It's the first of... more
Bloomberg climate reporter Akshat Rathi joins us to discuss his new book Climate Capitalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit... more
Some mining companies claim that we can't "electrify everything" without deep-sea mining—a claim that has been debunked by various scientists.... more
In the Season 3 premiere of Inherited, host Shaylyn Martos introduces us to storyteller Camara Aaron, who shares a personal... more
For our last episode of Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit their favorite jokes, and dig into the listener mailbag... more
This week, Amy and Mary discuss zombie ice viruses, the Keystone pipeline spill in Kansas, a global biodiversity crisis, the... more
This week, Amy and Mary chat with Rebecca Nagle - an Indigenous journalist, host of This Land, and long-time friend... more
Just in time for the holiday season, Amy and Mary chat with Aja Barber - a writer, stylist and consultant... more
Amy and Mary break down this year's COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and explore the history of U.N. climate conferences... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary break down the midterms, examine the shadowy billionaires funding Republican candidates, and... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary speak with Rhiana Gunn-Wright - Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary pick apart the climate implications and nuances in key midterm races (Fetterman,... more
This week on Hot Take, Mary is joined by Sara Sneath, investigative reporter and alligator doula and Drew Costley, climate... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary discuss the new wave of Southern Black Democrats running on climate centric... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary talk to Olúfemi Táíwò, author and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown,... more
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary give updates on Hurricane Ian, Manchin's failed permitting bill, discontent in Europe,... more
Today on Hot Take, Mary and Amy are joined by Kate Marvel, climate scientist at NASA, who answers listener questions... more
We hear all the time that acting on climate can upset the delicate balance of the economy, worsen inflation, kills... more
For this week’s Hot Take Labor Day special, Mary and Amy look into the connections between labor unions and the... more
This week on Hot Take, Mary and Amy talk to Abrahm Lustgarten about how colonialism, both in the past and... more
This week, Mary and Amy are joined by Evlondo Cooper, a journalist at media watchdog - Media Matters, to chat... more
Tune into Hot Take this week, where Mary and Amy take a much needed break by watching TV! They look... more
Amy and Mary cut through the noise to break down the good and the bad in the climate legislation that... more
This week, Mary and Amy break down the latest in climate news from - the Inflation Reduction Act, the possibility... more
This week, Mary and Amy are joined by investigative journalist Alleen Brown to take a closer look at mass incarceration.... more
This week, Joe Manchin spiked Biden's climate bill, but the planet is no political football. This week's episode of Hot... more
Today on Hot Take is all about resilience—and the limits thereof. Mary talks with two fellow southerners - Ko Bragg,... more
This week on Hot Take, we’re off! But, we’ve brought you an episode from one of our favorite shows -... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with Leah Litman, a law professor from our sister show -... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Yessenia Funes, Climate Director of Atmos Magazine, discuss queerness and climate justice, recent elections... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk to Sara Sneath, New Orleans-based investigative journalist of Floodlight, about exactly what... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary discuss the recent Republican “climate plan”, the Democratic primaries, heatwaves, a special fossil... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer about the future of US politics and... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with writer Alicia Kennedy to discuss the Netflix documentary, Bad Vegan.... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with Rebecca Solnit about our patriarchy problem, the leaked Supreme Court draft... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with David Wallace-Wells about the lessons we can learn from Covid-19, the... more
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit why Joe Biden is struggling with Gen Z, and they talk about... more
Amy and Mary sit down with Kate Aronoff, climate reporter at The New Republic, to talk about wtf nationalization means.... more
Hot Take is officially BACK! And in their very first episode as part of the Crooked Media network, Amy and... more
The climate crisis is literally the world’s biggest existential problem. But we can’t even begin to solve it if we... more
In our S3 finale we talk about the very bad month Big Oil had in May, how much the climate... more
Pro Publica healthcare reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about her experience navigating that minefiled, where public health and... more
Journalist Maddie Stone joins us to talk about Silicon Valley (yes, also the HBO series) and Big Tech's approach to... more
We missed the 10-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, so on the 11-year anniversary we're going big: It's #FUBPday.... more
In this crossover episode with The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood takes us to school and church with an in-depth conversation... more
If you want to see the true toll of the climate crisis, you have to train yourself to look for... more
A dramatic reading of the book Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero with Emily Atkin and Brian Kahn, plus a... more
Lewis Wallace, journalist and author of the book The View from somewhere, and the podcast by the same name, joins... more
Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz joins us to talk about all the many ways oil, war, and climate change intersect.Read more:https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/light-sweet-crude-a-former-us-ambassador-peddles-influence-in-afghanistan/https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/the-new-war-for-afghanistans-untapped-oil/https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/why-rex-tillerson-could-be-americas-most-dangerous-secretary-of-state/Subscribe... more
The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but... more
If you want to see the true toll of the climate crisis, you have to train yourself to look for the most... more