- Episode19.07.2024
In 2023, a violent flood hit Emilia-Romagna. The damage was extensive, but the Cervia salt pan mitigated some of the consequences.
- Episode01.05.2024
In this story, we focus on the wetlands in Sardinia, Italy, showing how a proper wetland protection is impossible without detailed scientific knowledge and an integrated management of these vital ecosystems.
- Investigation28.04.2024
Wetlands – such as lagoons, swamps, and peat bog – are a distinct ecosystem saturated by water and are vital CO2 emissions sponges, capable of locking up carbon for thousands of years. This investigation looked into human activities are decimating Europe’s remaining wetlands, as national authorities ignore this ongoing exploitation.
- Episode24.05.2023
We know a lot about the crisis. We know that it is time to progress from understanding the problems to solving them. However, we also know that there is no perfect solution. It is a matter of shifting understanding and knowledge from science to society, from data to stories, from facts to solutions.
- Episode29.03.2023
Money moves the attention of people, investors, and capital owners. Money is part of many solutions to the climate deadlock. But numbers are not enough to calculate the economic value of the climate issue.
- Episode24.02.2023
The Urgenda case was the game changer. It opened up a new dialogue between human rights law and climate science, while it marked a watershed moment for climate justice: from then on, we saw new measures to protect people from the harms posed by climate change.
- Episode28.01.2023
Knowledge is power. It is the backbone of an alliance that spans the farthest corners of the planet to the laboratories of the most advanced scientific research. In this episode, we explore the terrain where science meets civil society that triggers climate action. With stories of people in the Global South where natural resources 'are being used as a weapon'.
- Episode14.12.2022
A trip among satellites, robots and bottles. One that oscillates between the heights of the atmosphere and the surface of the sea. We ride on carbon dioxide molecules to understand how relevant the word budget can be in delivering a future where a climate neutrality takes shape.
- Episode10.11.2022
Behind the scenes of the climate negotiations, where the whole world sits around the same table. It is a plot of interminable sessions, under the danger of a deadlock that is always around the corner, behind a comma or a single concept. Scientists, delegates and a journalist unveil how a climate agreement takes shape in the halls and the corridors of an International Climate Conference.
- Episode25.10.2022
The blood vessel of Egypt meets China: the world's plumber-in-chief. A journey which starts with the Neolithic revolution, passes through the “hydraulic century” and carries us into the future. By following the history of water, we delve into the roots of human civilization, crossing paths with science, technology, politics, and the stories of people and places.
- Episode05.09.2022
Indeed, our history is one that for a long time was primarily, and exclusively, an African story..
- Episode26.08.2022
In the motion of rain, the water touches what cannot stay. In the first days of the world, we were travelling. Where have you gone, leaf and flower, scent of moths?
- Episode04.08.2022
If you want to be a polar explorer and cross the Arctic on skis, you should do it soon and in the winter. This message is quite clear.
- Episode29.07.2022
Listen to the numbers. From an ice-breaker in the Arctic to the keyboard of a piano, scientific indicators become music and gestures, a narrative made of science and digital art. An experimental tale of the emotions at the heart of research. This is how Judy Twedt creates data-driven soundtracks from sea ice.
- Episode25.07.2022
Conflicts around the world have devastating impacts not only on human lives but also on places - cities, countryside, rivers, forests, and fields. Wars often alter the environment irreversibly.
- Episode14.07.2022
We need farmers, poets, people who know how to make bread, who love trees, and understand the wind.
- Episode07.07.2022
Since 1997, for five days each year, Mantua becomes the international capital of literature. Literature is approached in a broad and inquisitive way, intertwined with history, society, art, science, technology, and the environment.
- Investigation30.05.2022
A planetary journey that goes deep into the future of innovation, technology, nature, and humanity in search of the best ways to forge a sustainable future.
- Episode30.05.2022
Where does science meet imagination? Our complex, interconnected, fast-changing world makes anticipating the future increasingly difficult. Alex Steffen, futurist, and Carolina Aragón, artist, guide us through their different, and sometimes complementary, perspectives on our future planet.
- Investigation31.03.2022
Un podcast di Elisabetta Tola e Giulia Bonelli che ruota attorno al nostro rapporto con il mondo: come viviamo, plasmiamo, coltiviamo, distruggiamo, inquiniamo e conserviamo l'ambiente. Una riflessione corale attraverso l'archivio di voci del Festivaletteratura di Mantova, Italia. Oltrenatura è prodotto nell'ambito del progetto "Reading Science", sostenuto dal Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca.
