Best Fossil Vs Future Podcasts (2025)

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Mass penguin die off explained, the shocking truth behind why African penguins are disappearing and what it means for our future 14:11

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Mass penguin die off explained, a crisis that wiped out ninety five percent of some African penguin colonies, raises a heartbreaking question: how does a thriving species fall to fewer than ten thousand breeding pairs and almost no one sees it happening? This episode uncovers the chain reaction that pushed an entire population toward collapse, from…

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Breaking Down Silos: Why Industry-Academia Collaboration Is Key - #101 Bart Cremers

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In this episode, we sit down with Bart Cremers, Group Knowledge Consultant at Zehnder Group International, to explore one of the most critical—yet often overlooked—challenges in advancing indoor air quality: how industry and academia can collaborate more effectively. Bart occupies a fascinating position, straddling the worlds of industry and resear…

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Marine Wildlife Victory: Why New Protections for Manta Rays and Sharks Change Everything 17:10

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Marine Wildlife Victory raises a powerful question: what does it take to finally protect some of the ocean's most threatened giants, and why did it take this long? In this episode, you will hear how manta rays, devil rays, and several shark species faced years of intense pressure from overfishing and international trade, and why the world finally a…

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Northern Right Whale Hope Story: Why the Population Finally Rose and What It Means Next 50:53

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Northern Right Whale crisis: For years, scientists and advocates have watched this critically endangered species decline due to ship strikes, fishing gear entanglement, and rapid ocean change. This episode asks a crucial question: Does the first population increase in years signal real recovery or just a temporary pause in a long-term crisis, and w…

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OT29: From Every Minute to Every Hour - What 4 Years of Data Reveals About Sensor Placement

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Welcome back to Air Quality Matters and One Take, where we unpack the latest research shaping our understanding of indoor air and the built environment. This week, we're at a paper that tackles a fundamental question: Where exactly should we put indoor air quality sensors? How many do we actually need? And how often should they take readings? The p…

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From Mini EVs to Mega Scale: China’s Cars Go Global 29:30

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China’s electric vehicle market is moving at extraordinary speed. Generous incentives, trade-in subsidies, and aggressive pricing have fueled mass-market growth, and roughly half of the cars sold in the country today come with a plug. Now, this EV success story is moving beyond its domestic borders. Chinese brands already account for nearly one in …

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Ep. 398: Crypto crash, tokenisation boom? | Nucleus Investment Insights 46:52

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In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, examines the latest crypto price crash — assessing where digital assets now fit within an investment portfolio, what’s really driving the volatility, and whether Larry Fink’s push for a tokenisation boom offers any meaningful upside from here. ⁠Download Presentation …

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119: This Habit is Quietly Destroying Your Discipline 18:15

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Most of us don't realize how quickly the urge hits. You sit down at the DMV, nothing is happening yet, and your hand is already halfway to your pocket. Reaching for our phone has become so automatic that we barely notice it, even though it shapes much more of our behavior than we'd like to admit. In this episode, I look at that micro-moment — the h…

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What's behind your canned tuna? The shocking truth supermarkets never tell you 17:47

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Supermarket tuna raises a disturbing question: What's behind your canned tuna? In this episode, you uncover the hidden human cost of the global tuna industry, including the devastating story of fisherman Deby Putra Bunanda, whose health collapsed after months at sea supplying tuna for major supermarket brands. His experience reveals a deeper and da…

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Max Sherman: 100 Episodes, 40 Years of Research, and the Future of Indoor Air Quality - #100

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To celebrate 100 episodes of the Air Quality Matters podcast, we welcome back our very first guest, the renowned Max, for a wide-ranging discussion on the past two years and the revolutionary future of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). Max, one of the leading voices in air quality standards, dives into the major themes that have dominated the conversation,…

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COP30 Belém: The Hidden Decisions That Could Change the Ocean Forever 19:37

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Ocean crisis: COP30 Belém exposed massive gaps in climate action, and the ocean will carry the burden. In this episode we break down the missing fossil fuel commitments, the weak climate finance language, and the two track political system that threatens to push ocean science into the background. These decisions matter because the ocean is already …

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How Smart Chips Are Rewiring the Car Market 25:28

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As vehicles become increasingly intelligent and connected, the chips powering them are transforming the automotive industry. Traditional supply chains are giving way to new partnerships, and advanced processors are reshaping everything from vehicle costs to the balance of power between automakers and chipmakers. With automation advancing and chipma…

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OT28: The Great Indoors - Why Australia's First Indoor Air Report Changes Everything

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Welcome back to Air Quality Matters and One Take, where we unpack the latest research shaping our understanding of indoor air and the built environment. The State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025, produced by the Thrive Research Centre and key Australian institutions, represents the first real national stock take of indoor air quality in a country t…

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Ep. 397: The Pacific Inflation Divide: The Race to Cut vs. The Fight to Hold | Nucleus Investment Insights 43:39

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In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, looks at whether NVIDIA’s upcoming results could rattle confidence in the AI boom — unpacking what investors should watch for as the market’s largest stock reports, and how the outcome might reshape expectations for the broader AI trade. Download Presentation Slides …

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How Deep Sea Mining Could Break the Ocean's Most Important Wildlife Highways 1:01:06

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How Deep Sea Mining could permanently disrupt the ocean's most important animal routes, and most people have never thought about it. This episode asks the critical question: what happens when mining operations collide with species that rely on vast migratory pathways to survive? We break down the science in a way that makes the stakes impossible to…

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118: The blood pressure number your doctor ignores with Craig Cooper CEO of CONNEQT 44:07

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For years, my blood pressure readings at routine checkups came back higher than I expected, even though I train hard, sleep well, and pay close attention to recovery. I wasn't hypertensive, but those numbers never matched how I actually felt — and the rushed way they were taken didn't inspire confidence. After all, when a measurement happens over a…

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Esther Sternberg: From Immune Response to Healing Spaces - The Science of Well-Being - #99

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In this landmark episode, we sit down with Dr. Esther Sternberg, a professor of medicine, scientist, and internationally recognized pioneer in the science of mind-body interaction, healing spaces, and the role of place in well-being. Dr. Sternberg's groundbreaking work has influenced how we think about healthy buildings today. Her books—Healing Spa…

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Fish Farm Clean Up: What they pulled from a Forty Ton Ghost Farm will SHOCK you! 14:56

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Fish Farm Clean Up reveals the hidden reality beneath a quiet coastline in Methana, Greece, where a ghost fish farm left behind more than forty tons of plastic cages, nets, metal frames, pipes, and even sunken boats. What looked peaceful on the surface hid a toxic underwater scrapyard that had been breaking apart and polluting the Saronic Gulf for …

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Adaptation and Resilience: A New Investment Imperative 19:33

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How well prepared are we for a warming world? Climate adaptation is quickly moving from theory to strategy, reshaping investment priorities and exposing new risks and opportunities. On this bonus episode, Kobad Bhavnagri reads his note “Adaptation and Resilience: The New Investment Imperative” to explore how businesses, policymakers and financiers …

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OT27: The $110 Million Return - Why School Air Quality Is Our Best Investment

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The quality of air in our schools is directly shaping our children's health, attendance, and ability to learn. The Paper:Impact of Air Quality including Thermal Conditions on Educational Buildings on Health, Wellbeing and Performance by Duncan Grassie and researchers from the UK Health Security Agency and Eurovent. This scoping review is essentiall…

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Ranking Resilience: Economies Adapting to Climate Risk 33:14

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Climate is reshaping the global economy. Losses from major weather events are now estimated at $1.4 trillion each year, and as the damaged assets, disrupted supply chains and declines in productivity pile up, climate risk is turning from an environmental issue into a financial one. BloombergNEF has thus developed an Adaptation Preparedness Framewor…

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Ep. 396: Could NVIDIA’s report shake confidence in the AI boom? | Nucleus Investment Insights 39:14

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In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, looks at whether NVIDIA’s upcoming results could rattle confidence in the AI boom — unpacking what investors should watch for as the market’s largest stock reports, and how the outcome might reshape expectations for the broader AI trade. ⁠Download Presentation Slides…

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Whales don't get cancer: How bowhead whale DNA could change human health 13:02

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Whales don't get cancer as often as you might expect, and in this episode you learn how the bowhead whale's unique DNA repair system is helping scientists understand cancer prevention and healthy aging. This Arctic giant lives more than 200 years, grows to airplane size, and still avoids the runaway mutation patterns that lead to tumors in other sp…

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117: I've Had Enough With Eight Sleep… 12:12

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We've been using Eight Sleep at the Kummer house for years, and in many ways it's been an incredible tool. The pod keeps the bed at exactly the right temperature through hot Georgia nights; lets us set different temperatures for falling asleep, the first half of the night, the second half, and waking up; and it tracks sleep, HRV, heart rate, respir…

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#98 - The Housing Crisis vs. Climate Change: Europe's Impossible Decision? with Stijn Renneboog

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In this essential episode, we dive deep into the complexities shaping the European built environment with an industry expert from Eurovent (YR-VENT), the European industry association for Indoor Climate (HVAC), Process Cooling, and Food Cold Chain technologies. We tackle the core tension in Europe: reconciling the immense pressure for decarbonizati…

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OT26: The $9.5 Billion Contradiction - Why We Fund Fossil Fuels Over Clean Air

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Welcome back to Air Quality Matters and One Take, where we unpack the latest research and reports shaping our understanding of indoor air and the built environment.This week, I'm diving into the seventh edition of a critical annual report that reads like a global health check—not for people, but for policy. The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2…

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Fish feed in aquaculture, understanding what goes into feeding farmed fish 1:10:52

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Fish feed in aquaculture is at the center of a complicated global story that most people never hear about. In this episode, Andrew sits down with marine biologist and policy expert Marine Cusa to explore the hidden world of fishmeal, fish oil, feed ingredients, and the surprising connections between aquaculture, wild fisheries, West African communi…

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Ep. 395: The Future of Fossil Fuels | Nucleus Investment Insights 1:01:19

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Join this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, unpacks the latest forecasts for fossil fuel use from the International Energy Agency — why oil demand is set to keep growing under current policies, what that means for coal, oil, and gas investments, and how investors should be positioning their portfolios for …

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Heavy Duty, Low Carbon: How Trucks Are Going Electric 33:12

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The 85 million medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the road last year were responsible for nearly a 10th of global emissions, and an array of technologies and business models are in trial as a way to cut these vehicles’ carbon footprint. A lack of charging infrastructure and high upfront prices remain high hurdles to clear. Yet China boasts record e-t…

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116: Why Most Coffee Is Slowly Destroying Your Health… 21:38

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Coffee can be both a tool and a toxin, depending on how it's grown, prepared and used. In this episode, I take a closer look at caffeine and coffee through a practical lens — what science says, what I've experienced, and what really determines whether that morning cup helps or harms you. Caffeine blocks adenosine, which makes you feel less tired an…

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Orcas vs Great White Sharks: How Killer Whales Are Changing Shark Populations 11:10

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Orcas vs Great White Sharks is more than a dramatic headline—it's a sign of how ocean ecosystems are shifting before our eyes. New drone footage shows orcas in the Gulf of California attacking and killing juvenile great white sharks in what scientists believe are nursery zones. The footage, captured in 2020 and 2022, reveals orcas flipping young sh…

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#97 - Inside the UN's Historic Indoor Air Quality Pledge with Georgia Lagoudas & Bronwyn King

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I sit down with two of the most influential actors in the indoor air quality sector, Georgia Lagoudas (Science Policy Expert and Bioengineer) and Bronwyn King (Australian Radiation Oncologist & Anti-Tobacco Campaigner), the principals behind the recent landmark air quality event at the UN General Assembly in New York. This event launched the Global…

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Seagrass Decline in Moreton Bay: What Long-Term Research Reveals About Ocean Change 21:52

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Seagrass meadows are among the most vital yet overlooked ecosystems on our planet. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, Andrew Lewin explores a new 19-year study from Moreton Bay, Australia, which shows that seagrass coverage and diversity are declining over time despite short-term recovery periods. This long-term research reveals that whil…

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Animals Affected by Climate Change: How Seabirds Reveal the Hidden Impacts of Warming Oceans 1:09:57

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Animals affected by climate change are showing us how fragile our ecosystems have become. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, host Andrew Lewin speaks with Dr. Helen Killeen, a marine ecologist whose research connects seabird reproduction to shifting ocean temperatures, prey diversity, and climate pressures across the northern hemisphere. …

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One Take #25: From 57% to 75% - How Home Ventilation Transforms Adult Asthma Outcomes

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Does fixing ventilation in homes actually make people with asthma healthier? The answer is an emphatic yes – but the type of system you install makes all the difference. This episode unpacks a remarkable two-year study from Chicago that followed 51 adults with physician-diagnosed asthma across 40 homes, tracking their health before and after differ…

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Ep. 394: Vaccinate or Evacuate? | Nucleus Investment Insights 34:25

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Join this week’s podcast as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, examines the political storm hitting the healthcare sector — how comments and policy risks from Trump and RFK Jr. are weighing on valuations, whether today’s beaten-down prices could present a long-term buying opportunity, or if lasting damage to the sector’s eco…

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Marine Conservation Projects: Why Recent Wins for Endangered Species Matter 14:52

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Marine Conservation Projects are driving real wins: green sea turtles downgraded to least concern in many regions, North Atlantic right whales showing a small but meaningful uptick, and a new vaquita calf sighting offering hope. In this episode I explain the common thread behind these stories, targeted local projects, science monitoring, and laws t…

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The Hydrogen Hurdle: Costs, Policy and Progress 32:16

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Hydrogen was once the golden child of the energy transition. Yet high costs and limited policy support proved high hurdles for the technology’s progress, global deployment has fallen well short of expectations. Forecasts now project around 5.5 million tons of production by 2030 – half of what was expected just a few years ago and far below industry…

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115: Building Real Resilience in Kids (Even When It's Hard) 16:41

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A few days ago, Kathy asked me to listen to a parenting podcast by Dr. Becky that stopped me in my tracks. In it, the host told a story about planning a movie night as a kid — driving to Blockbuster, hoping the film you wanted wasn't already rented, and learning to deal with the disappointment when it was. That memory hit hard because it reminded m…