# Robert Swan

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The Ecological Harm of Harm Reduction

In this in-depth investigation, Jake Seegers exposes how Clallam County’s rapidly expanding harm-reduction program is driving a local environmental crisis — from needles and pipes scattered along salmon streams to charred debris fields left unaddressed on public land. Despite rising drug-related E…

Global Cooling is a Problem, Too

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Recorded December 11 from Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica, this episode explores one of the biggest, and least discussed, climate challenges: heating and cooling the world's buildings. This source emits an estimated 15% or more of global greenhouse gas emissions, including the impact of leaked ref…

Return to Ross: Closing the Loop, Opening the Future

Season 2 of Thin Ice begins by revisiting the past to gain a new perspective on the future.  Forty years after one of the most defining and disruptive moments of his life, polar explorer Robert Swan returns to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. This time, not as a young man chasing history, but as …

Summer 2026

IMD sounds alarm over brutal summer 2026, predicts surge in heatwave days across India. IMD forecasts a harsh summer across India with rising temperatures and increased heatwave days from March to May, raising concerns over public health, water scarcity, agriculture, and power demand nationwide. He…

BritChips podcast: RayD Technologies - Learning with Limited Data

In this latest episode of The BritChips Podcast, Rayd Technologies cofounder and CEO Kilian Stenning explains how he, co-CTOs Riccardo Sapienza (Professor of Physics at Imperial) and Kirsten Moselund (Head of Laboratory at PSI Paul Scherrer Institut) and CSO Jack Gartside (Associate Professor of Ph…

Growth and Protection

The issue of economic growth and the environment essentially concerns the kinds of pressures that economic growth, at the national and international level, places on the environment over time. “We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.” — Christoph…

Survival Conservation

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." · Robert Swan Why is conservation critical? Host Diya asks us to imagine life without clean water or wildlife. Conservation is one of our strongest defenses against climate change. Forests, oceans, and wetlands …

Saturday Mornings: Walking to the Ends of the Earth... Rob Swan on Climate, Courage & Singapore’s Future

🌍 The existential threat is here. On MoneyFM 89.3’s Polar Explorer Robert Swan OBE joins Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen to discuss the future of the planet. Swan was the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles; he is now one of the world’s most compelling climate vo…

E64 Robert Swan: Kitchen Tables and Clean Data That Improve Student Attendance

Dr. Reda Othman sat with Robert Swan, Director of Student Services at East Haven Public Schools, to explore why so many districts work hard on chronic absenteeism and still don't see the number move. Robert argues that attendance isn't mainly about motivation or parenting. It's about belonging. Kid…

Excess Materials Exchange with Christian & Anne | Circularity Revisited

What if waste is just material that has lost its way? In this episode of HappyPorch Radio, we go back into the archive to our 2023 conversation with Christian van Maaren, founder and CEO of Excess Materials Exchange, and Anne Rademaker of Rademaker Consulting. First published in Season 7, it comes …