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Sea Change
Sea Change
Bi-weekly
Hosted by Carlyle Calhoun

The award-winning podcast from WWNO/WRKF that dives deep into the environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and beyond. Sea Change will bring you stories that illuminate, inspire, and sometimes enrage, but above all, remind us why we must work together to solve the issues facing our warming world. The podcast will help document our changing coasts with accountability journalism that’s too often missing from today’s media while sharing captivating stories from the people dealing with the most significant and complex problems of our time.

Hosted by Carlyle Calhoun, the show is based out of New Orleans, Louisiana which — perhaps more than any other place — embodies the existential threat of climate change. But like the city known as the Big Easy — Sea Change will also showcase joy, and resiliency — and tell powerful stories of people making a difference.

Also broadcast on 89.9 FM at noon during Louisiana Considered every other Friday.

Sea Change is distributed by PRX and is a part of the NPR Podcast Network.

Made possible with major support provided by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and The Water Collaborative. WWNO’s Coastal Desk is supported by the Walton Family Foundation, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and the Meraux Foundation.

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Sea Change Episodes
  • This floating dairy farm, located in Rotterdam's port, was developed by Peter van Wingerden after seeing New York City's food supply chain shatter after Hurricane Sandy. The goal is to develop self-sufficient farms floating on water to improve the resiliency of cities globally.
    From Foe to Friend: The Dutch Rethink Their War Against the Sea
    In the Netherlands, water has always been both a threat and a triumph. A quarter of the country lies below sea level, and for centuries the Dutch have engineered their way to safety. It’s a place not unlike New Orleans: a delta shaped by risk, resilience, and the belief that with enough ingenuity, water can be controlled. But as sea levels rise, that centuries-old confidence is beginning to crack.
  • Carbon is a miraculous element. It is what all life on Earth is made out of. Carbon emissions are also heating up the planet, threatening that same life on Earth. This image shows NASA’s carbon monitoring, which uses satellite data to map atmospheric carbon dioxide.
    It's All Elementary: Part 3 – Carbon
    This is part 3 of our three-part series about elements. And today is a biggie: carbon. When we hear about carbon, it's usually about its role in heating up the planet. And while that's an absolutely critical part of the story, the story of this most miraculous of substances is so much larger.
  • Florida International University grad student Chloe McGuire and PhD student Harshien Kamalasok collect water from the Miami Canal, which crosses three counties starting at Lake Okeechobee and dumps into Biscayne Bay near downtown Miami.
    It's All Elementary: Part 2–Phosphorus
    This is part 2 of our 3-part series about elements. Last time we met nitrogen, today, it’s partner in crime and in life – phosphorus.
  • One of the largest hotspots for nitrogen pollution in the world is the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. But nitrogen pollution is a problem facing many coastal areas. Cape Cod is defined by water — it is a peninsula with 560 miles of coastline and also about 900 freshwater ponds. Most of its bodies of water are severely affected by nitrogen pollution. To test for pollution and to determine its source, groundwater is first sampled.
    It's All Elemental: Part 1–Nitrogen
    In this three-part series, we’re giving some of the most misunderstood characters on the periodic table a fuller story. We dive into the fascinating double lives of these elements that are both the makers and unmakers of our world.In part one, reporter Olga Loginova travels to Cape Cod to meet nitrogen. In this episode: we trudge through the marsh, avoid great white sharks, and find out how we harnessed the power of nitrogen, why that power turned against us, and what we can do about it.
  • Katherine Wilkinson's new book, Climate Wayfinding, offers a compass for the climate crisis. Blending personal essays, poetry, and art, the book helps empower individuals to act from a place of love and possibility rather than just fear.
    Climate Wayfinding: A Compass for the Climate Crisis
    Want to feel better? Get unstuck? Be inspired? Remake the world? Then this episode is for you. We talk with Katherine Wilkinson, author of the book Climate Wayfinding, and Colette Pichon Battle, lawyer and co-founder of Taproot Earth, about finding our way through the climate crisis.
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