The Boring Climate Podcast

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A podcast on boring climate related themes.

12/16/2025

The storms that shape the tropics

Some of the most powerful storms on Earth form where science has looked the least. Despite being home to nearly half the global population, tropical weather remains one of the most poorly understood parts of the climate system. In our Season 2 finale of The Boring Climate Podcast, 2025, MacArthur Fellow Ángel F. Adames Corraliza explains how tropical storms form, and gets into why better understanding of moisture, atmospheric waves, and warming is overturning long-held assumptions. From the Madden-Julian Oscillation to humidity in the mid-latitudes, his insights could transform forecasts for four billion people.

37 min
12/02/2025

The Hidden Cost of Heat, ft. Aditya Valiathan Pillai

Heat is the "invisible" disaster – it’s all around us, kills as many, perhaps more people, in India than other extreme weather events, yet doesn't capture public attention like floods or cyclones. Aditya Valiathan Pillai, doctoral researcher at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative, New Delhi, joins us on The Boring Climate Podcast to help us understand heat, ways to act upon it, the policy interventions we need as our planet warms, and why this is not just a climate problem, but very much a human problem.

52 min
11/18/2025

What History Can Teach Us About the Climate and Ecological Crisis with Prof Mahesh Rangarajan

Our climate and ecological crises are often seen as problems of the future. In this episode of The Boring Climate Podcast, Prof Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of History & Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, joins us to talk about why history might offer critical lessons to address the planetary crises of the present.

44 min
10/29/2025

How Groundwater Loss Is Driving Sea Level Rise

When we talk about rising sea levels, we usually think of melting glaciers. But there’s another, quieter crisis unfolding underground. Over the past two decades, NASA satellites have tracked massive groundwater depletion- a shift now contributing more to sea-level rise than melting ice sheets. In this episode of the Boring Climate Podcast, Dr Hrishikesh Chandanpurkar, Earth System Scientist at Arizona State University, joins us to explain how human overuse of groundwater is dehydrating the planet and altering its hydrological balance. He unpacks how terrestrial water storage, the invisible layer beneath our feet, connects our taps to the oceans, reminding us that what we draw from the ground eventually finds its way to the sea.

40 min
10/14/2025

What frogs are trying to tell us: Secrets from the Western Ghats

Why study frogs and toads? And why are they featured on a climate podcast? That's because frogs are "indicator species" - their behaviour, songs and traits can tell us a lot about our planet - but are we listening? Our guest in this episode, Seshadri K.S. , takes us on an immersive audio-visual tour of the Western Ghats, sharing anecdotes, actual footage and song recordings from his fieldwork, as well as mind-blowing insights into these creatures and their secret lives.

1h 4m
09/30/2025

The "easy" climate fixes are a trap, featuring Dr Chirag Dhara

Why do one-size-fits-all climate solutions often fail? Are EVs part of the solution or part of the problem? And, could the solutions we chase to combat climate change end up creating new problems for the people and environments we hope to save? In episode 4, we sit down with Dr Chirag Dhara, a quantum physicist turned climate scientist, whose work challenges us to look beyond easy solutions and embrace the complexity of our warming world.

40 min
09/16/2025

Ancient carbon capture, invasive species and globe-trotting elephants, with Dr Tarsh Thekaekara

Invasive plants with an "A" type personality, Padayaippa, the wild elephant who likes to play football and an ancient carbon capture technique all feature in this fascinating episode as Dr Tarsh Thekaekara, Director, The Real Elephant Collective and a trustee of The Shola Trust takes us on a journey that asks us to look at how close we are to nature, and what we can do to co-exist with it better.

53 min
09/02/2025

What Are Aerosols? The Tiny Particles Changing Health and Climate with Dr. Richard Peltier

Aerosols are tiny but powerful particles, shaping air quality, human health, and the climate in ways that are often invisible yet profound. Depending on their makeup, aerosols can reflect sunlight and cool the planet or absorb heat and warm the atmosphere, making them one of the most complex and consequential pieces of today’s climate puzzle. Dr. Richard Peltier, Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he leads research on air quality, aerosol chemistry, and the health impacts of pollution, joins the podcast to unpack aerosol chemistry, exposure, and health impacts—from measurement and monitoring to real-world policy relevance in a warming world. His research focuses on which particulate components drive disease risk and how improving air quality can protect health globally, bringing rigorous science and on-the-ground insight to the climate–health conversation.

50 min

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