Why violence is rising with global temperatur...

If you want to live in a world where people read, novelist Ann Patchett has news for you: it's your job to help create that reality. Tracing her path from a chance airport encounter through a career writing iconic novels and opening a beloved independent bookstore, she makes the ...  Show more

Larz May has spent a decade building digital wellness programs for young people, and she's discovered something quietly radical: the smartphone doom loop of screen dependence and anxiety isn't inevitable, and joy (not restriction) is the way out. She makes the case for a differen ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Peter Schwartzstein, an environmental journalist who reports on water, food security, and the conflict-climate nexus in around 30 countries, mainly in the Middle East and Africa. Together, they discuss Mr. Schwartzstein's new book, The ...  Show more

Alors que la COP26 se tient en ce moment à Glasgow, une étude met l’accent sur les priorités sécuritaires des plus gros pollueurs mondiaux…Le Transnational Institute, un think tank progressiste basé aux Pays-Bas, nous apprend en effet que les grands pays occidentaux et pays grand ...  Show more

Kate Marvel spends her days playing with climate models, which she says are “like a very expensive version of The Sims.” As a physicist she gets tired of being asked to weigh in on economics, geopolitics, and despair — but she still defends the right of scientists to ha ...

Dans cet épisode de TED en français, Michel Levy Provencal reçoit François Gemenne, chercheur et enseignant à Sciences Po Paris et l’université de Liège, spécialiste des questions de géopolitique de l ...