This week on Possibly, we’re taking a look at what’s going behind the scenes of your local grocery store’s seafood aisle. When you choose between farm-raised and wild caught salmon, what environmental impacts are you actually choosing between? The post Should you buy farm-raised or wild salmon? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
If you’ve been outside on a smoggy day, you’ve probably noticed that your body reacts poorly to bad air quality. Maybe you coughed, or got a headache. But what actually happens to your body when you breathe in polluted air? The post How does air pollution affect our health? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
This week on Possibly, we’re looking at a practice called assisted migration – physically moving organisms whose habitats are shifting due to climate change. Should humans intervene to help species keep up with climate change? The post Should we help plants and animals move if they can’t keep up with climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio ....
Carbon benchmarking is an important first step in tackling one of the US’s largest sources of carbon emissions: the buildings we live in. The post What is carbon benchmarking? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Earlier this year Rhode Island College hosted its annual Rhode Island Compost Conference and Trade Show. The Possibly team attended the conference to hear from some compost-enthusiasts about why they love turning food scraps into soil. The post What happens at a Compost Conference and Trade Show? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio ....
The syndrome, which can make you allergic to red meat, is spread by a type of tick that has become more common in Rhode Island. What should you know to stay safe? The post Tick Season is Here – What is Alpha-gal Syndrome? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Even though wind turbines offer emission-free energy, manufacturing, transporting and installing those turbines does create greenhouse gases. This week on Possibly we do the math and find that turbines deliver emission savings in less than a year. The post What’s the climate impact of building wind turbines? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio ....
If refrigerant, the key substance inside a heat pump leaks into the atmosphere, it can warm the planet thousands of times more than CO2. The Possibly team does the math to see if that risk outweighs the climate benefit of heat pumps. The post Heat pumps run on a substance that can create a lot of emissions. Is it still worth buying them? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio ....
When four dams were removed along the Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest, it meant giving up a source of renewable energy. But clean energy wasn’t the only factor the company had to consider. The post Why would an energy company remove its dams? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
As our planet warms and heat waves become more common, we wondered how that heat affects our bodies. In today’s episode, the Possibly team explains how heat impacts two key organs: your kidneys and your intestines. The post How are rising temperatures affecting our organs? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
It always feels better to go outside, move around a little bit, and get some fresh air. But this week on Possibly we look into the research, do green spaces actually improve our health? The post Can green spaces make you happier? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Gas stoves can pollute the air in our homes and even contribute to climate change. But lots of people enjoy cooking on them. Is there a way to switch away from gas that works well and doesn’t break the bank? The post How can I replace my gas stove? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Chris Thile’s new Audible podcast and musical variety show, the Energy Curfew Music Hour uses music to imagine how people can adapt to a world reshaped by climate change. The post Could music help us adapt to climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
The news about climate change efforts in the US hasn't been great lately. So Possibly is launching a new occasional series to highlight advances against climate change around the world. Up first: China The post Good News Abroad – China appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
This week on Possibly, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse helps explain what options we have to address climate change’s impact on the home insurance industry. The post How do we solve the climate change home insurance crisis? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry. This week on Possibly, we look at how states are responding to this problem. The post Climate change is messing up our home insurance prices. What can states do? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio ....
Recent reports by the Senate Budget Committee and the Treasury found that climate change is already upending the US’s home insurance industry. The post How is climate change affecting home insurance? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
On this episode of Possibly, we’re taking a look at the Great Salt Lake. The lake has been shrinking for years, but it’s also doing something strange- it’s creating more greenhouse gas emissions than people expected. The post How can a lake contribute to climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
After fire hydrants ran dry during the wildfires in Los Angeles, listeners wondered why firefighters didn't just use ocean water to begin with. On this episode of Possibly, we explain the tradeoffs of using the ocean to fight fires. The post Can we use ocean water to fight wildfires? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
We hear a lot about climate migration—the idea that people will have to move as climate change makes some places unlivable. But is this something we’re still waiting for, or is it already happening? The post Are people moving because of climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Air pollution results in over 7 million deaths each year. In this episode of Possibly, we look at the most common way to measure air quality, the Air Quality Index, and what it means for you. The post What does the Air Quality Index really mean? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Possibly’s founder and the Provost for sustainability at Brown University Stephen Porder recently visited a supermarket chain in France that sells products other stores would have thrown away. The post What can we learn from France about food waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Wasted food takes up lots of space in landfills and, while getting a compost bin at home is great, it isn’t enough to solve the problem. This week, we investigate how schools are taking big steps towards eliminating food waste. The post How can schools fight food waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
If you have an electric car, and you want to try to reduce the greenhouse gases that are created in order to power that car, when should you charge it? The post When should I charge my electric car? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
A new program in Framingham, Massachusetts is leading the transition from gas to geothermal heating and cooling. The post Are geothermal networks the future of heating and cooling? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one hospital is cutting down through their medical plastics recycling initiative. The post How can hospitals cut their plastic waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
With the second Trump administration underway, the Possibly team takes a look at a group hoping to shape the country's energy policy: a Republican caucus in the House of Representatives. The post What is the Conservative Climate Caucus? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
In the summer of 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The law was the US’s largest investment in climate and clean energy ever. But what’s happened since then? Who has actually been implementing the bill? The post What happened to the Inflation Reduction Act? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
We asked our listeners to send in their wildest ideas for addressing climate change. And one listener, thinking about all of the trash Americans throw into landfills, asked if we could send it somewhere else: the sun. The post Could we just fire our trash into the sun? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
As we head into a new year, our Possibly team decided to think about all of our episodes, and how they might inspire our resolutions for 2025. Here’s what some of us had to say. The post Our resolutions for 2025 appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
