The World, a radio program from PRX and GBH, is heard by 2 million listeners each week on more than 370 local public radio stations; it further reaches a global audience via podcast, social media, and the web. Co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler lead a dynamic team of journalists, doing global reporting that has been repeatedly honored and has won some of journalism’s most prestigious awards. Their focus on climate change has created a library of topical segments.

The CO2 Foundation supported a pilot project in the summer of 2024, launching rapid deployment climate coverage with the aim of educating listeners about how climate change is fueling natural disasters. This funding supports coverage of heat waves, hurricanes, floods, drought-fueled water shortages, and other climate-exacerbated events as they happen, or in the immediate aftermath. Whenever possible, these stories include examples of how communities can prepare for and mitigate impacts of such extreme weather events, or how they can recover more successfully after they happen.

One recent deployment took host Carolyn Beeler to Brazil, traveling two days to get into a small Indigenous community in the Pantanal wetlands, where fires are severe and widespread and firefighters are being trained to use drones to improve situational awareness.

The team is also bringing back the Big Fix series, which Carolyn Beeler has anchored since March 2020. The Foundation looks forward to many high-quality, timely, and widely-distributed segments to come.