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1 week ago | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Journalists, researchers and politicians have been sounding the alarm in recent months about a new industry impacted by climate change: home insurance. In the past two episodes we’ve looked in to what the problem is and how different states are approaching it.
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2 weeks ago | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. We already know that climate change is making natural disasters more extreme and happen more often. Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from those natural disasters, but now climate change is affecting that industry, too.
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3 weeks ago | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. You might think climate change just affects the weather or polar bears. But that’s not the case. It also creeps into our economy. For example— home insurance. Juliana Merullo and Nat Hardy from our Possibly team are here to explain.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly. Where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. In the summer of 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The name doesn’t say anything about it, but this was actually the US’s largest investment in climate and clean energy ever. What’s happened since then? And will the law change under a new administration?
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Will Malloy |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. In the summer of 2022, 14 young people in Hawai’i filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Transportation, saying they weren’t doing enough to reach the state’s climate goals. The two sides recently reached a settlement, and we had our reporters Juliana Merullo and Will Malloy look into it for us.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Will Malloy |Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Recently, we talked about how our hometown of Providence, Rhode Island built a huge tunnel to help store stormwater so the sewage treatment plant can keep up when it rains. But can we prevent stormwater from going into the sewer system in the first place?
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
nepm.org | Monte Belmonte |Juliana Merullo
Published July 12, 2024 at 4:04 PM EDT Ways To Subscribe Apple NPR One TuneIn Google Spotify 1 of 3 — Flood 2.jpg A garage off Hockanum Road in the Northampton Meadows on the morning of July 12, 2023. Ben James / NEPM 2 of 3 — PXL_20240711_200235804.jpg Reporter Juliana Merullo appears on The Fabulous 413 to talk about her research on the 2023 flood impacts on western Massachusetts farms.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Will Malloy |Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. If you’ve lived in Rhode Island for a while, you may have noticed that the Narragansett Bay is a whole lot cleaner than it was in the past. We’re here with Possibly reporters Will Malloy and Juliana Merullo to find out why. Will Malloy: Hi Megan!Juliana Merullo: Hiya! Megan Hall: So, is the bay really that much cleaner?
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Here at Possibly, we think a lot about how to make climate change easy to understand. And we’re not the only ones! It might be surprising, but some comedians are trying to do this too. Juliana Merullo and Nat Hardy from our Possibly team are here to tell us more.
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May 21, 2024 | 
thepublicsradio.org | Juliana Merullo |Megan Hall
Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. When’s the last time you took the bus? Taking public transportation can really cut down on your greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s way cheaper than buying an electric car. But, for most of us, driving is just more convenient. We wondered, does it have to be that way?
