One World Podcast

One World Network

The One World Podcast brings you science documentaries and interviews from the leading minds from around the world.

Episodes

  1. May 12

    Making Cities More Liveable With Nature

    Cities have always been engines of creativity and resilience—but they’ve also been built on a fundamental mistake: leaving nature out. For decades, concrete and steel have replaced forests and wetlands, shaping urban environments that trap heat, pollute air, and isolate communities. Now, a global movement is reimagining what cities can be. Through nature-based solutions—sometimes called green infrastructure or ecosystem-based adaptation—scientists, planners, and policymakers are designing urban spaces that work with nature, not against it. The NATURA network connects researchers and city leaders across seven world regions to rethink how nature shapes urban life. Their latest achievement, the Global Roadmap on Urban Nature-Based Solutions, is the first region-by-region assessment of how cities can integrate nature into infrastructure, planning, and policy. From cooling heat-stricken neighbourhoods to reducing stormwater runoff and restoring biodiversity, nature-based solutions are proving scalable, adaptable, and practical. Projects like Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream Park—where a concrete drainage channel was transformed into a thriving ecological park—demonstrate how cities can rebuild both ecosystems and community life. The Roadmap gathers lessons from more than 80 experts and countless real-world projects, creating a practical guide for city governments, urban planners, and local communities worldwide. It calls for hybrid systems that blend grey and green infrastructure and for policies that make nature a core part of urban design. Nature-based solutions are no longer niche experiments; they are essential tools for climate resilience and human well-being. The message is clear: this isn’t just about surviving climate change—it’s about reimagining the cities we want to live in.

    11 min

  2. May 5

    No Ocean, No Life

    The ocean has absorbed our carbon, steadied our climate, and kept the planet habitable for decades. Most of us have no idea how close to its limits it's running. The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of instruments on the seafloor, on buoys, and in the water column — running continuously, in some of the harshest conditions on Earth — built to answer the questions we can't afford to get wrong. We meet the scientists and engineers behind it: the volcanologist monitoring eruptions from the deep sea floor, the team delivering ten terabytes of ocean data every month, free to anyone on the planet. This is the story of the infrastructure keeping watch on the system everything depends on.

    11 min

  3. Apr 28

    Green Bank – The Quietest Place in America

    Before we could see the stars, we learned to listen for them. Radio telescopes have revealed star-forming regions invisible to the human eye, mapped the structure of the Milky Way, and spun off the very technology — Wi-Fi, mobile networks — now threatening to drown them out. This is the story of Green Bank Observatory: the people protecting our ability to hear the universe, and the fragile silence they depend on.

    12 min

  4. Apr 22

    The Library Beneath the Sea — what ocean sediment tells us about climate

    Seventy percent of Earth's history is buried beneath the ocean floor — layered in sediment, millimetre by millimetre, for hundreds of millions of years. To read it, scientists drill into the seafloor and pull up cores the width of a drainpipe. What they find inside could tell us exactly what happens when the planet gets too warm.

    9 min

  5. Apr 13

    Decarbonising Data Centres – Carbon First

    Every time you stream a video, send an email, or join a call — somewhere, a data centre burns fossil fuels to make it happen. And the software doing it has no idea. A team at UMass Amherst is changing that — redesigning computing from the ground up, with carbon as the first variable, not an afterthought.

    9 min

  6. 01/06/2025

    Biosphere 2 | Hope in the Face of Global Climate Change

    The post Biosphere 2 | Hope in the Face of Global Climate Change appeared first on One World Network.

    13 min

  7. 12/10/2024

    One World Podcast Trailer

    The One World Podcast brings you science documentaries and interviews from some of the leading minds from around the world. The post One World Podcast Trailer appeared first on One World Network.

    1 min
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The One World Podcast brings you science documentaries and interviews from the leading minds from around the world.

Information

  • Creator
    One World Network
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © One World Network
  • Show Website
    One World Podcast