KQED's Climate Watch Podcast
1) Expanding the Pool For Renewable Energy
Despite the state's push toward renewable energy, most Californians can't choose solar power at home. But a bill moving through the state legislature may soon provide a way for more people to jump on ...Show More
2) Climate Change Speeds Up Loss of Historic Artifacts
Rising seas from warming oceans are generally seen as a threat to the future. But archaeologists are realizing that they're also a threat to the past. Coastal erosion is destroying Native American sit...Show More
3) Bringing California's Dams Up to Date
There are more than 1,400 dams in California. When the earliest of them was built, the goals were clear: store water, control floods and generate electricity. Since then, new priorities have been adde...Show More
4) Shrinking Snowpack Puts Hydroelectric Power at Risk
While much is uncertain about California's warming climate, there's little doubt that it's already changing the fundamentals of how most of us get our water. And that has some far-reaching implication...Show More
5) Power Needs Water
The state's water managers rolled out a plan this week to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by moving water around the state. If that sounds odd, it turns out that moving and treating water takes...Show More
6) Water Needs Power
Here in California we're constantly prodded to save energy, and to save water, too. But what if we told you that by saving one, you can save both? That's because water and power are inextricably bound...Show More
7) Cleaning Up the Cloud
We imagine all our music, apps and photos stored somewhere "out there" - in the sky, perhaps. In truth, data lives in data centers that run on electricity. There's a fight going on between Greenpeace ...Show More
8) Climate Change May Mean More Mosquitoes -- And Diseases
Scientists are concerned that as the climate warms, West Nile Virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses will gain a stronger foothold in North America.