Living Planet is a podcast and radio program from Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW). Hosted by Charli Shield and Sam Baker, each week Living Planet reports on environment stories from around the world.In this episode of Living Planet, host Sam Baker speaks with three experts on climate disinformation about how factually inaccurate and misleading information travels around the web. Climate journalist Stella Levantesi, communication researcher John Cook and Wikimedia strategist Alex Stinson participated in this engaging round-table, which originally was broadcast as a live discussion.More Living Planet episodes are available at: pod.link/livingplanet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Bittle's book The Great Displacement looks at how extreme weather events are likely to drive Americans to move from one part of the country (or their state) to another. In this episode, he joins to talk through the complex web of factors that drive migration, and how policies might be changed to ease the burden on people and communities.Find out more about The Great Displacement and where to buy it: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Great-Displacement/Jake-Bittle/9781982178253Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Electrification offers an opportunity to rethink how we use energy and how we get around. Researcher Thea Riofrancos wants to see the U.S. seize that opportunity and set the country on a path to a better, more equitable future.Promotions: Earth Breeze: earthbreeze.com/drilled for 40% off Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/DRILLED for a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs Express VPN: expressvpn.com/drilled for an extra three months free on a one-year package Subscribe to our newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re sharing an episode from a podcast we love called The Carbon Copy. In January 2023, a new study showing that over 12 percent of childhood asthma cases can be linked to gas stoves took over the discourse. Suddenly, gas stoves were a hot topic on nightly news programs across America. The study ignited backlash from conservative pundits, especially after a commissioner from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said stricter regulation of gas stoves was on the table.Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Congo Basin contains the world’s second-largest rainforest at a staggering 178 million hectares (just under 440 million acres). It is also one of the biggest carbon sinks on the planet, containing 29 billion metric tons of carbon in its vast peatlands under the rich forest.One of the basin’s key countries, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), aims to open up protected areas and forested peatlands to oil and gas development, with many experts warning of dire consequences to the rainforest and the world’s climate, should these peatlands be disturbed. Sound familiar? On the heels of our Guyana season, we wanted to bring you this deep dive from the great folks over at MongaBay on what's happening in the Congo right now. You can find the MongaBay Explores podcast here and MongaBay's regular Newscast here. Check them out!Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The day after our season finale last week, we got some incredible news from Guyana: the High Court ruled against the oil company and the government in the big insurance case Melinda Janki filed. We caught up with Janki shortly after the verdict was released for this conversation.Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the last episode of our "Light, Sweet Crude" season we look at what's next for Guyana, and for other Global South countries grappling with poverty and climate change at the same time.Ad codes: tryfirstleaf.com/drilled - 50% off first 6 bottles plus free shipping from First Leaf athleticgreens.com/drilled - free year's supply of vitamin D + 5 free travel packs of AG1 from Athletic Greens earthbreeze.com/drilled - 40% off EarthBreeze laundry detergent Eco Sheets airdoctorpro.com and use promo code DRILLED and depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off expressvpn.com/drilled for 3 extra months free on your VPN subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's happening in Guyana isn't just happening there. All over the globe, oil companies are racing to tap as many of the remaining fossil fuel reserves as they can. This week, we're joined by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell for a story about what the global oil rush looks like in another part of the world: Namibia.Read Jeff's story: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-drilling-africa-destroy-wild-land-namibia-recon-investors-1234697088/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we first started reporting this story, people unfamiliar with it would suggest talking to local environmental groups. Surely they would have something to say about a massive new polluting industry springing up in the country! But every group we could find operating in Guyana had taken money from Exxon or one of its partners. Several have made promotional videos praising the project. They argue that oil money is no dirtier than any other source of funding, and if it’s there, they may as well take it to do good conservation projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The tension between addressing global poverty and acting on the climate crisis is one the fossil fuel industry, and those who carry water for it, have been increasingly leaning on in recent years. We asked Dr. Narasimha Rao to join us this week to get into the details of that conversation, where there are and aren't tradeoffs, and what his Decent Living Energy Project at Yale can tell us about how to solve both global crises at once.Download our discussion guide on debunking the "moral case" for fossil fuels! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices