
Amplifier: An Undeniable Climate Emergency Podcast
Amplifying vital voices in the climate movement, including climate scientists from the Global South, water and land defenders, Indigenous scientists and activists, and more.
Episodes
13 episodes
Hillary Angelo: IS urban greening really the path to sustainable cities?
Today we talk to the wonderful urban-environmental sociologist Hillary Angelo. Hillary is an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz who focuses on Urbanization, nature, infrastructure, sustainability, and climate change. We talk about urban plann...
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Episode 13
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1:05:42

Kelli Ashley Armstrong: On the Front Lines of the Climate Emergency
Today we are talking with artist, scientist, and activist Kelli Armstrong. A resident of the Bahamas, we talk about how the climate crisis has changed her island home. How, even in her lifetime, storms have have grown from manageable to out of ...
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Episode 12
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1:21:19

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 11: Austin Bowden-Kerby
We talked with Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby, who specializes in working with Pacific Island communities and governments to prevent the collapse of coral reefs in the face of climate change and associated mass coral death due to bleaching. He goes de...
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Episode 11
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2:18:42

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 10: Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq
Join us for this incredible conversation with Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Iñupiaq from NW Alaska, enrolled member of the Noorvik Native Community, Virginia Tech professor and communications and rhetoric scholar. We talked about the importance of la...
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1:34:17

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 09: Gopal Dayaneni
We had an incredible conversation with activist, scholar and educator Gopal Dayaneni, co-founder of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project (among many other important endeavors), on the centrality of social, racial and economic justic...
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1:41:14

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 08: Henri-Count Evans PhD
We had a wonderful discussion with Henri-Count Evans, lecturer at the University of Eswantini, who is an emerging scholar in journalism, climate change and environmental humanities, and media studies. We discuss the transition away from fossil ...
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Episode 8
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1:12:09

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 06: Dr. Aïda Diongue-Niang
Join us as we talk with Senegalese meteorologist Dr. Aïda Diongue-Niang, a Vice-Chair of IPCC's Working Group I. We explore the the disparities between Africa's negligible contribution to global heating while being most vulnerable to the ...
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1:23:51

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 07: Lina María Forero Suescün
We talk with Lina María Forero Suescün, a climate communicator, Indigenous sovereignty and gender researcher from Columbia, about how Indigenous and women's rights are not just linked to the climate emergency, but are essential to tackling it a...
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Episode 7
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2:09:28

Fernando Tormos-Aponte, PhD
Join us as we talk to the wonderful Dr. Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, about the value of human life in the face of climate crisis, the politics of research, the importance of sol...
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Episode 5
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1:08:47

Melinda Adams, PhD: Cultural Fire and Climate Change
Jon our conversation with the always amazing Dr. Melinda Adams, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science and Indigenous Studies at The University of Kansas. She uses a mix of modern and traditional knowledge of...
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Episode 4
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1:03:14

Amplifier Podcast Ep. 03: Elkanah Babatunde
Join us as we talk with Dr. Elkanah Babatunde, a Research Fellow in the University of Cape Town’s Global Risk Governance program who focuses on climate justice in Africa and global environmental governance. We dig into the challenges for burgeo...
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Episode 3
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1:23:47

Amplifier Podcast Episode 02: Monica Araya
Today on Amplifier we talk to Monica Araya, one of the BBC's most influential inspiring women, and the Executive Director of the European Climate Foundation (https://europeanclimate.org/). She is an emissions-free transportation advocate, and h...
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Episode 2
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1:02:10

The Amazon, Ladies of Landsat, Decolonizing Science, and more, with Flaávia Mendes PhD
Flaávia Mendes is a remote sensing expert based in Brazil, focused on forestry and land use for more than 16 years, on topics ranging from the prospects for the Amazon (so, you know, all of us), decolonizing science, women in science, and so mu...
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Episode 1
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