Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, Texas reporter Dylan Baddour and data journalist Peter Aldhous as they discuss ICN’s new investigation into how the fracking boom put an oil field in the Guadalupe River floodplain.

An epic flood a generation ago drenched areas around Texas’ Guadalupe River, showing how quickly and dangerously the region could be submerged.

Since then, Texas — with no state floodplain policy — has allowed oil companies to frack this same area, extracting fossil fuels underground in the Eagle Ford Shale. It may be, as one resident describes, “a disaster waiting to happen.”

A new investigation by Inside Climate News found that more than 500 enormous oil tanks now dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River — tanks that could upend, spill or float away in another devastating flood.

Dylan and Peter explain how they undertook this important investigation and what it would mean if the basin floods again.

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Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and fisheries and aquaculture reporter Johnny Sturgeon as they discuss heat, health and opportunity in the world’s oceans.

Oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface, absorb 90% of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases, and help prevent dramatic temperature spikes on land. Yet they’re often overlooked in conversations about climate change.

The consequences are significant. Ignoring ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change and has left a multi-trillion-dollar blind spot in climate finance, according to a new study released last week.

Global ocean heat content also increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025. Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.

Johnny, ICN’s newest staff reporter, pulls back the curtain on these and more of the most interesting developments in the oceans, including the untapped clean energy of the tidal energy industry, which has the potential to provide a carbon-free source of power with complete predictability.

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Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and science reporter Bob Berwyn as they discuss the latest reports on relentless human-caused global warming.

Several new climate reports released this week indicate “an unprecedented run of global heat” in 2025, especially in the oceans and at the poles.

Ten years ago, the signers of the Paris Climate Accord sought to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. But at today’s pace of emissions, scientists say, the world is on track to hit that limit permanently by the end of this decade, sooner than expected when the deal was signed.

Bob breaks down what this data means in practical terms, the threats to systems that sustain human societies, and how warming is colliding with the basic machinery of modern life.

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