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POCACITO ClimateCast

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A podcast about biodiversity and climate change, produced by youth from Louisiana and Mississippi, and from Essen and Munich in Germany. Two groups of students, one in Germany and one in the United States, worked together over four weeks in the fall of 2023 to tell the story of how climate change impacts the environment in different parts of the world. Materials are in English and German. POCACITO ClimateCast is a production of POCACITO and was made possible through the support of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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How to Survive Seven Days in July in Biloxi, Mississippi 07.01.2026 25:54

By forty teenagers from Germany and the United States who came together for one week in the summer of 2025. To share what they learned about nature. And culture. And how to make s’mores. And how Marco … Polo can become very competitive. Hopefully you’ll come away with something—or feel inspired to tell your own environmental stories. That’s what this podcast is for. Created by teenagers who mad...

POCACITO Summer Academy 2024 26.12.2024 37:39

For one week in July, forty teenagers from Germany and the United States came to Camp Wilkes in Biloxi, Mississippi, to explore the relationship between climate change and biodiversity. In this episode of the POCACITO Climate Cast series, students discuss what they learned, what they liked, and what they'll take home from their shared, intercultural experience. You can discover more about the POCA...

Climate Cast - German episode on bogs and toads - Unken und Moore (in German) 05.02.2024 1:22:27

Mathias und Oliver über Moore und Unken. Heute auf Deutsch. Vielen Dank an Dr. Andreas Zahn vom Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz, BUND, an Prof. Dr. Victor Smetacek vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut und für die Tonaufnahme der rufenden Gelbbauchunke an Rabe 19. Hier geht es heute um Kultur, Kolonialisierung, den Kohlenstoffkreislauf und wie wir 500 Gigatonnen CO2 aus der Atmosphäre herausholen und vers...

ClimateCast - coasts, former industrial lands and wetlands experiencing climate change and biodiversity loss 08.01.2024 41:59

A tour through the POCACITO ClimateCast universe, starting in the Ruhr Area, a former industrial region in the West of Germany, where former coal mines and polluted rivers are restored to provide habitat for biodiversity. We then move to the Gulf Coast in Mississippi around Biloxi and hear about impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss on the former seafood capital of the world. We end our...