Podcasts

UChicago's Liz Moyer breaks down the history of US energy use in commemoration of the country’s 250th year of independence.

New research quantifies how China's mass campaign to eradicate sparrows during the Great Leap Forward disrupted natural pest control, reduced crop yields, and contributed to millions of deaths during the Great Famine.

Climate scientist and CSEi Research Fellow Jessica Wan joined the Oceanography podcast to explain how marine cloud brightening (MCB) works, and what climate models reveal about MCB's unintended effects.

Climate Systems Engineering initiative Founding Faculty Director David Keith speaks with Smarter Markets at CERAWeek 2026.

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth Founding Director and EPIC Director Michael Greenstone speaks with Smarter Markets at CERAWeek 2026.

EPIC Executive Director Sam Ori explains why gas prices cost so much these days.

Climate scientist Pedram Hassanzadeh explains how models are being trained to predict heat waves, monsoons and even unprecedented ‘gray swan’ events on UChicago's Big Brains

Andrew Chien discusses data center power use on UChicago's Big Brains podcast.

Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol. The average person  loses about two years of life expectancy to it. In India, the figure is three and a...

Eyal Frank is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Working at the intersection of ecology and economics, his research addresses three broad questions – how animals contribute to specific production functions, how market...