Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry. This week on Possibly, we look at how states are responding to this problem.
Nat Hardy
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How is climate change affecting home insurance?
Recent reports by the Senate Budget Committee and the Treasury found that climate change is already upending the US’s home insurance industry.
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When should I charge my electric car?
If you have an electric car, and you want to try to reduce the greenhouse gases that are created in order to power that car, when should you charge it?
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What is the Conservative Climate Caucus?
With the second Trump administration underway, the Possibly team takes a look at a group hoping to shape the country’s energy policy: a Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.
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What happened to the Inflation Reduction Act?
In the summer of 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The law was the US’s largest investment in climate and clean energy ever. But what’s happened since then? Who has actually been implementing the bill?
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Wild turkeys were locally extinct for decades. How did they come back?
Turkeys are more than just a Thanksgiving meal, they’re part of forest ecosystems across the country. In this episode of Possibly, we take a look at how they made a major comeback in New England after being driven to local extinction.
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Can we count the number of people who die because of coal powerplants?
You probably know that coal power plants are bad for the climate, and for your health. But how do we know how much of an impact one coal power plant can have? Where does its pollution go?
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Where did all the plankton go?
Plankton form the basis of the food web in oceans and new research shows that the level of phytoplankton in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay has dropped by half in the past 60 years. We wondered why.
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Why is it so cold in libraries?
If you’ve ever spent time in a library or art museum on a hot summer day, you might have felt way colder than you expected. On this episode of Possibly we break down the science of why libraries get so cold in the summer.
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Should I use a wooden pencil or a mechanical one?
Students at the Lincoln School have a question: should they be using wooden pencils or plastic mechanical ones? This week on Possibly we explain the answer, and how to find it.
