[Listen to the testimony to the Senate by clicking on the title above. It is 30 important minutes for the planet.] Sir Nicholas Stern, the UK economist who caught the attention of the business world, when he warned of the huge costs of  …

[Click the title above to hear the full audio file – 27 megabytes in size, and 29 minutes long] [opening music clips, including a shout protest against Merill Lynch – for financing new mega-coal plants in Texas] Professor Mark Jaccard predicts a strong  …

Just a little audio goodie: news reports from the February release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, including statements from the scientists. Also, coverage of obscene Exxon/Mobil profits, and equally obscene meandering about climate – from President George Bush. All set to  …

What happens as the Earth heats up? British author and activist Mark Lynas set out to answer those questions in his new book “Six Degrees.” Searching the science, putting it together, he describes the impacts with each degree of temperature rise. The book  …

[Audio begins with almost 2 minutes of alarming media clips on recent storms in U.S. and Europe – to listen, click the title above] Do these media reports worry you? Take a deep breath. Humans are hard-wired to fear extreme climate events. And  …

Will it be a happy or a grim New Year? In 2006, the Arctic melted more, rains fell heavier, fires burned bigger, the plants and animals were confused by a changing climate. This was the year polls showed the public is slowly getting  …

To hear full audio version, click title above. Look out! Look out! The Arctic Ice is disappearing much faster than anyone thought possible. Events which were supposed to take centuries are occurring now. Scientists at Canada’s new global ice laboratory, at the University  …

December 23, 2006 What is the climate like in your home town? Last week the Radio Ecoshock internet station went down for two days, while we shivered in the dark with no electricity, along with a quarter million other Vancouver area residents. Trees  …

Once in a while we run across real “world-changing” technology. This is the real thing: a refrigeration system that uses solar power – and doesn’t require toxic batteries. As you’ll hear in our interview with one of the project’s main actors, Janos Mate  …

In this Ecoshock Feature (click title above to listen/download) we cover the disappearance of snow in the highly unusual warm start to winter in Europe. World Cup ski races in the most famous resorts of the Alps have been cancelled. The hills are  …

Millions of people have come to rely on George Monbiot as a clear-headed investigator into the threats and possible solutions to climate change. Through his regular columns in Britain’s respected Guardian newspaper, his books, and appearances on television and radio, Monbiot has become  …