Life Raft
Every other Tuesday
Climate change is scary. Life Raft is not.
In a podcast from WWNO, WRKF and PRX, reporter Travis Lux and comedian Lauren Malara answer your questions about living with climate change. How bad will the flooding get? Should I raise my house on stilts? Will New Orleans even be viable as a city? We’ll tackle it all.
Got a question for us? We’re listening.
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With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge.For… -
Everyone knows flood insurance isn’t the most exciting topic. What this episode presupposes is: maybe it should be?It’s not difficult to imagine a future…
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Gov. John Bel Edwards wants Louisiana to dramatically cut its emissions by 2050. What would it take to get there?This week on Life Raft, reporter Tegan…
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The 2020 Hurricane Season was intense. It set all kinds of records: most named storms in a season,and most to rapidly intensify, among others. Five storms…
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Hey there Sticky Wicket fans! WWNO and WRKF want to introduce you to our new podcast. It’s called Life Raft. Each episode explores a different question…
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Happy New Year, Life Raft listeners!We’re busy readying the second half of the Life Raft season, but we still wanted you to feast your ears on some…
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Doomsday prepping seems more and more logical to us on the Life Raft team. Climate change-induced weather disasters are only getting worse, and it never…
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It’s been a big year for the environment, what with the 2020 hurricane season and the wildfires and everything else. We wanted to put together a little…
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When it rains, it pours. And when it pours, it floods.More and more, that appears to be the situation down South. In New Orleans, several big rain storms…
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No matter where you fall on the eco-anxiety spectrum, on a scale from low-key stressed to lying up at night in a dread spiral, you could probably use some…
