

Climate Change Is Being Left Out of the Story Our director’s latest opinion piece argues that many major U.S. television news outlets report on extreme weather – such as floods, wildfires, heat waves, and storms – without consistently explaining the role that climate change plays in making these events more frequent or severe. Advances in…

In the latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein have an engaging conversation with Paul Greenberg, author of the best-selling book ‘Four Fish’ and more recent writings including his latest novel ‘A Third Term’ (George Washington takes on Donald Trump). A Writer in Residence at the Safina Center,…

Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos returned to the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast for a conversation as wide-ranging and urgent as his films. Host David Helvarg sat down with Psihoyos before a live audience during SF Climate Week at the downtown San Francisco studios of KALW public radio — and the exchange didn’t disappoint. Psihoyos traces…

Our director argues that despite the Trump administration’s recent proposal to open federal waters off California’s 1,100-mile coastline to new oil and gas drilling, it’s highly unlikely that offshore oil rigs will actually be built there. California hasn’t seen new offshore oil lease sales in federal waters since 1984, and longstanding legal protections — including…

In the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with longtime ocean activist and former guest Richard Charter about the Trump administration’s punitive effort to open the entire California coastline to offshore oil drilling. It has been several years since their last conversation with Charter, who has…
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