Ecocide Podcast
Ecocide is a narrative podcast about environmental destruction—part environmental history, part stories still unfolding. Each episode documents an ecological disaster: who caused it, who paid the price, and who fought back.
The stories fall into four categories: infamous disasters you've heard of but may not know the full story; local and regional cases that never made national news; historical episodes that explain how ecosystems break and sometimes recover; and real-time conflicts you can still do something about.
Environmental stories usually get covered as breaking news that's gone before the consequences arrive, or as advocacy with the conclusion already built in. What's missing are stories told in enough depth to establish the facts, name the people who made the decisions, and learn about the communities left behind. And to do it without telling listeners what to think. That's what this show is.
Every episode is built on primary sources. Court documents and legal filings, agency records, peer-reviewed scientific and academic research, nonfiction books, and investigative journalism. When the facts are damning, they'll be presented without editorializing. And when the story is complicated, it'll stay complicated. The goal isn't to tell you how to feel. It's to make sure you know what happened.
Because the earth doesn't forget. And neither can we.
Ecocide Podcast
Latest Episodes
Ep. 13: Breaking Big Bend
The story of how the federal government waived decades of environmental law to build roads and barriers through Big Bend National Park and adjacent lands | In the 1980s, a black bear swam across the Rio Grande and climbed into the Chisos ...
Ep. 12: The Server Farm (Part 2)
Part two of Ecocide's two-part series on the data center boom | Across the United States, enormous data centers are being approved behind closed doors, often before the people who will live beside them know they exist. In part one of our two-pa...
Ep. 11: The Server Farm (Part 1)
The story of the data center boom and the communities fighting back | Since late 2022, one industry has accelerated its expansion to the point of totally reshaping the country's land, water, and power grid at a speed and scale without precedent...
Ep. 10: Panawahpskek
The story of how the HoltraChem chemical plant poisoned the river that sustained the Penobscot Nation for 10,000 years, and how a 22-year lawsuit produced a cleanup that still isn't finished | On February 18, 2014, the State of Maine announced ...
