POCACITO ClimateCast

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 made it through the week—and now shared with the world—Chiptuned ROck Music by Bertsz -- https://freesound.org/s/545455/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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 POCACITO Summer Academy and read the Zine the students inspired at pocacito.org. 

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 versenken. Das bringt uns dann sogar wieder aufs offene Meer, wo Sargassum und andere Algen diskutiert werden.Auch hier hilt wieder unser Dank dem Auswärtigen Amt für die freundliche Unterstützung unseres Podcasts.

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 podcast in the Munich area in Bavaria, where peatlands and wetlands are disappearing, threatening frogs and other biodiversity.More material, including in German in the following episodes. Special thanks to the German Foreign Office for their support.