Interviews
Power Metal
Mining and the Clean Energy Paradox | NPR Marketplace
The minerals tech can’t do without | BBC Tech Life
The toxic tradeoffs of a fully electric future | NPR Think
Parsing the global plastic pollution problem | NPR’s 1A
‘Power Metal’ Examines the Cost of Our Battery-Powered Lives | KQED Forum
Minimizing Damage as Mining for Critical Minerals Ramps Up | Columbia Energy Exchange
Vince Beiser and Michael Castleman | Bookish
Is Recycling a Scam? | Magnetic North Substack
After Words with Vince Beiser | C-SPAN
Vince Beiser on the Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future | The Diplomat
Dirty Electric Cars | The Loh Down on Science
The Global Race For Critical Metals! | Fully Charged Podcast
General
The World in a Grain
The story of sand and why it’s important to our lives | Global News
High demand for sand has spurred a global black market for it | BNN Bloomberg
The Man Who builds Beaches | Science Friday
The Story Of Sand In ‘The World In A Grain’ | Weekend Edition, NPR
Is the world running out of sand? | BBC Newshour
The precious resource of sand | BBC video
The Guardian (segment starts at 21:58)
Sand mining ‘violence is at its worst in India, Kenya and Gambia’ | BBC
Vince Beiser talks about desertification in China and how the government is fighting it | CGTV