Are you looking to understand the latest climate science? Explore innovative solutions, or hear from activists on the front lines of the battle against climate change? Podcasts offer an accessible way to stay informed about one of the defining challenges of our time. Climate change can feel overwhelming, but the right podcast can transform complex data into compelling stories, break down policy debates into digestible conversations, and spotlight the researchers, entrepreneurs, and communities working toward a sustainable future.
From daily news briefings to deep-dive investigations, the podcasting world has risen to meet the moment with shows that educate, inspire, and empower listeners to engage with climate issues in meaningful ways. Below, I’ve rounded up the top podcasts dedicated to climate change.
How to Save a Planet
Climate change, yes, it can feel overwhelming. But what if there was a show that left listeners feeling energized instead? One so full of possibility that people actually want to tune in? Join journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds as they share smart, inspiring stories about the crisis we face and how we can solve it.
Climate Rising
Climate Rising explores how climate change affects business. It brings together business and policy leaders with Harvard Business School faculty to discuss what companies are doing, can do, and should do about climate change. The show examines the challenges and opportunities climate change presents for managers, from location decisions and technology choices to product strategies, marketing, customer engagement, and policy across the full range of business considerations.
Climate History Podcast
Climate History features interviews and discussions exploring the history of climate change. Conversations examine what the past reveals about our present and future. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Dagomar Degroot, associate professor of environmental history at Georgetown University, and Emma Moesswilde, a PhD student in environmental and climate history at Georgetown.
What On Earth
The climate is changing, and so are we. Host Laura Lynch and her team of journalists explore solutions, find inspiration in unexpected places, scrutinize new technologies, hold the powerful accountable, and join listeners on the journey to fix this crisis.
A Matter of Degrees
Drop the climate guilt. Get curious. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they explore the forces driving climate change and the tools to fix it. They tackle big climate questions with stories of bold leadership, groundbreaking campaigns, and people working toward solutions.
What Could Go Right?
What if we’re on the cusp of a better world instead of disaster? Each week, Progress Network Founder Zachary Karabell and Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas discuss major issues, sustainability, polarization, work, and the economy, with diverse experts. Their takeaway: despite real challenges, progress is happening.
Invested In Climate
Invested in Climate hosts conversations with leading thinkers to help listeners address the climate crisis through their work, investments, learning, lifestyle, and activism. Communities, governments, and all economic sectors are mobilizing at an unprecedented scale. Will it be enough? What more is needed? And what can you do? Everyone has a role to play.
The Climate Pod
The Climate Pod features wide-ranging conversations with leading experts on the politics, economics, activism, culture, science, and social justice of the climate crisis. Guests include Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Al Roker, David Wallace-Wells, Katharine Hayhoe, Bill Nye, and many more. Hosted by Brock Benefiel and Ty Benefiel.
Sea Change
Living on the coast means living on the front lines of climate change. Every two weeks, host Ben Schachtman brings stories that illuminate and inspire as he explores environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and beyond. It’s time to talk about a Sea Change.
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Outrage + Optimism is for anyone not ready to give up on making the world better. Join former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, political strategist Tom Rivett-Carnac, and sustainable business consultant Paul Dickinson for conversations with decision makers and visionary thinkers. Each week they break down top climate news and keep listeners informed and inspired.
For What It’s Earth
An environment, sustainability, and climate action podcast that makes big eco issues digestible, answers green living questions, and explores ways to help save the planet. Hosted by Emma Brisdion and Sophie Pavelle.
The RADIO ECOSHOCK Show
Radio Ecoshock is a weekly 1-hour program featuring the latest science, authors, and issues, from climate change, oceans, forests, and pollution to Peak Oil, the economy, and peace. Hosted by Alex Smith.
The Climate Question
Why humanity struggles to save its own planet, and how that might change.
Climate Connections
A daily 90-second podcast exploring how global warming shapes our lives and what we can do about it. Host Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of Yale University connects the dots from fossil fuels to extreme weather, clean energy to public health, confronting reality while sharing inspiring stories of hope.
Reversing Climate Change
Reversing Climate Change is a podcast that connects science, technology, and policy with the humanities. From carbon removal and climatetech to literature, history, philosophy, theology, and geopolitics, the show explores the people, ideas, and innovations creating a better future for the planet and its inhabitants.
World Ocean Radio
World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays covering a wide range of ocean topics. Available for free syndication by college and community radio stations worldwide.
Drilled
A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the obstacles that have prevented the world from adequately addressing climate change.
Energy Gang
A podcast covering breaking news in clean tech, deep dives into global energy policy, and debates on what’s needed to accelerate the energy transition. Energy Gang explores clean energy technology, renewable energy, and the environment. The clean energy world moves quickly, and listeners need a reliable source for the news that matters. Find it on Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Gang.
Climate Tech Cocktails
Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where hosts grab a drink (or two) with top-tier climate tech founders.
Hardware to Save a Planet
The planet is warming at an unsustainable rate. This human-caused climate crisis will require human ingenuity to stop or reverse. Hardware to Save a Planet explores the technical innovations offering hope in the fight against climate change. Each episode focuses on a specific climate challenge and an emerging physical technology solution, featuring the person bringing it to life.
Sustainababble
A funny podcast about the environment, sustainability, and all the nonsense people spout in the name of saving the planet.
Watt It Takes
A monthly podcast sharing stories of founders building a clean energy future—their backgrounds, risks, failures, and breakthroughs transforming the world. Hosted by Lowercarbon Capital. Subscribe on Spotify or Apple for the latest episodes.
Zero: The Climate Race
Zero explores the tactics and technologies driving us toward zero emissions. Each week, Bloomberg reporter Akshat Rathi talks to people tackling climate change, venture capitalists, scientists-turned-founders, politicians crafting climate laws, and CEOs transforming their businesses. The road to zero has many paths, and everyone has an opinion on the best route.
Planet A – Talks on Climate Change
A climate change podcast hosted by Danish Minister Dan Jørgensen. He invites leading experts, policymakers, and activists to discuss the challenges of climate change and its possible solutions.
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
Climate change leaves humanity one option: adapt. Join host Doug Parsons for America’s leading climate podcast, America Adapts! Each episode, Doug speaks with scientists, activists, policymakers, and journalists about the tough questions we face. Question your assumptions, refresh your perspective, and join the movement shaping our planet’s future.
Climate One
We’re living through a climate emergency, and addressing it starts with conversation. Co-hosts Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious, and Kousha Navidar bring empowering discussions that connect all aspects of the challenge, the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic.
TILclimate
Get smart quickly on climate change. This award-winning MIT podcast, Today I Learned: Climate, breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, its impacts, and what society can do. Each quick episode delivers the what, why, and how from real scientists to help everyone make informed decisions for the future.
The IcePod
The IcePod is a podcast about polar science and the people behind it. It features scientists who traveled aboard Polarstern, the German research icebreaker, for the largest Arctic research expedition ever conducted.
Catalyst with Shayle Kann
Investor Shayle Kann asks big questions about decarbonizing the planet: How cheap can clean energy get? Will AI accelerate climate solutions? Where is smart money flowing in climate tech? Each week on Catalyst, Shayle explores the climate tech world with prominent experts, investors, researchers, and executives.
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