A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
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How the Backlash to Climate Protest Laid the Groundwork for What We're Seeing in U.S. Cities Today (00:47:15)
It's easy to feel like climate "doesn't matter" as the U.S. descends into fascism. As if climate and democracy are somehow separate issues. In this episode, researcher Oscar Berglund and journalist Am...
A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple (00:57:15)
In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that the human history of energy is one of accumulation, not substitution.
Here, he talks to reporter Adam Lowenstein about how the "energy tra...
Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline" (00:46:45)
When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic
measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have
no idea that a shadowy private security contractor called TigerSw...
Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus (01:02:06)
With Australia once again facing a terrifying fire season, we bring you this conversation between Drilled reporter Royce Kurmelovs and Canadian author John Vallaint, who spoke at last year's Byron Wri...
Bonus, The Black Thread: A Legal Case Brings the Norwegian Paradox to Light (00:24:53)
In this bonus episode of The Black Thread, we zoom in on a single case that distills the Norwegian paradox perfectly: the planned electrification of the gas processing plant on Melkøya. It’s a key con...
S14, Ep13 | Lessons for Activists Fighting Climate Obstruction (00:58:06)
Despite increasing repression worldwide (as we’ve documented in previous seasons), activists have been pretty effective at sticking it to obstructionists too…which is probably why all that repression ...
S14, Ep12 | How Litigation Works to Fight Obstruction (00:49:33)
We’ve never lied to you on Drilled and we’re not going to start now. It’s bleak out there. But some efforts to fight back against obstruction are working and litigation is one of them. In this episode...
Drilling Deep: The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be, with Natasha Hakimi Zapata (00:56:08)
More than a decade ago—when wind and solar power were far more expensive than they are today—the nation of Uruguay, long plagued by droughts and energy shortages, transitioned its entire economy such ...
COP Out: What the Heck Happened at COP30? (00:56:29)
We're bringing you episode 5 of Dana R. Fisher's COP Out podcast, from the Center for Environment, Equity and Community at American University, featuring our own Amy Westervelt and legendary climate s...
S14, Ep11 | How and Why Climate Adaptation Measures Get Blocked (00:47:43)
Working against regulations on emissions might make a certain amount of sense for those with money to lose, but why would anyone fight against adapting to be able to survive climate disasters? In the ...
Carbon Bros Mailbag: On Vocational Therapy, Navigating Traditional Male Spaces, and the Benefits of Solidarity (00:42:53)
Daniel and I are back after a little hiatus to bring you our long awaited Carbon Bros mailbag episode. We received so many interesting responses from people around the world. Thanks for sharing your ...
Drilling Deep: Jessica Green on Why We Need More Confrontation at COP (00:48:44)
The COP is in its fourth decade. If it were capable, in its current form, of achieving its stated aim of tackling climate change, it would probably have done so by now. So why isn’t it working? How is...
S14, Ep10 | The Corruption of COP (00:56:10)
The UN processes created to deal with climate change have been infiltrated by obstructive forces since jump. In this episode, as COP 30 begins, Kari de Pryck from the University of Geneva and Eduardo ...
The Black Thread, Ep4 | Norway Beyond Oil (00:43:16)
In the final episode of The Black Thread, we look forwards, imagining Norway’s future. We explore how Norway might begin to loosen oil’s grip on its politics and identity, and hear how different voice...
S14, Ep9 | How Climate Obstruction Works at the Local Level (00:34:07)
Local governments are double-edged swords on climate, capable of either doing far more or far less than national governments and acting as either an agent of change or an agent of obstruction in and o...
S14, Ep8 | Climate Obstruction in the Global South (00:55:29)
The U.S. is a global leader on climate obstruction, but they’re not the only ones. In this episode, M. Omar Faruque, from Queen’s University in Canada and Ruth E. McKie from De Montfort University jo...
The Black Thread, Ep 3: Challenging the Narratives (00:50:19)
In the third episode of The Black Thread, we explore where the facts do and don’t match up to the stories being told by Norway’s fossil fuel industry, amplified by it’s government, and legitimised thr...
Drilling Deep: Karen House on How Saudi Arabia Has Changed Under MBS and What Those Changes Mean for the World (00:52:00)
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House, author of the new book The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arab...
Carbon Bros: Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity (00:35:35)
We heard a little bit from El-Sayed in the final episode of our Carbon Bros miniseries, and today we're bringing you the full conversation.
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The Black Thread, Ep 2 | Petroganda (00:48:09)
In the second episode of The Black Thread, we drill into “petroganda” – the pervasive phenomenon of oil industry manipulation that a growing number of experts and commentators suggest is at work in No...
S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy (01:09:24)
For decades, the meat and dairy industries managed to successfully avoid any attention for the planet-heating emissions they pump into the atmosphere; once governments started talking about regulating...
S14, Ep 6 | How the Coal, Utilities and Transportation Industries Obstruct Climate Policy (00:43:27)
The coal, utilities, and transportation industries have all mounted efforts to stop governments from regulating emissions or transitioning to cleaner energy. In this episode we look at how those effor...
The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians (00:42:09)
In this first episode of The Black Thread, we meet the Norwegians and explore how social norms and cultural values shape their identity as a good, caring, and nature-loving people. We also learn what ...
What Should You Do With Climate Despair? A Conversation with Wen Stephenson (01:05:32)
There’s no avoiding it: Things feel pretty bleak. To witness venture-capital-fueled AI domination, democracy’s steady drift toward authoritarianism, state-sanctioned genocide, and, of course, the coll...
S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action (00:51:23)
Climate obstruction isn’t just something the fossil fuel industry does, but they’ve certainly spearheaded and masterminded a lot of efforts. In this ep, an academic (Kristoffer Ekberg, from the Univer...
