Putting polluters in court
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Climate change is making devastating extreme weather more common. Tech Life's Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths explores the science that could help communities take polluters to court.
Also this week: we look at whether the boom in AI is causing a boom in electronic waste. And as astronauts head back to the Moon, we meet a veteran NASA space robot that's on a mission to return home.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: Smoke billows from a chimney at a coal-fired power station in Eastern Europe. The light of the sun is obscured by the dense dark smoke clouds. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
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| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to TechLife on the BBC |
| 0:39.2 | World Service, the programme about technology and how it's changing all our lives. I'm Chris Valence. |
| 0:45.6 | This week, climate change is making devastating extreme weather more common. Tech Life's |
| 0:51.1 | Yasmin Morgan Griffiths explores the science that could help communities take polluters to court. |
| 0:57.4 | I've been looking into attribution science which can help establish whether a flood, wildfire or other natural disaster was made more likely by climate change. |
| 1:06.6 | We'll also look at whether the boom in AI is causing a boom in electronic junk. |
| 1:11.9 | And as astronauts shoot for the moon, we meet the veteran space robot that's finally going home. |
| 1:18.1 | Music As climate change heats up our world, extreme weather events are becoming more intense and more frequent, scientists say. |
| 1:44.9 | That rather abstract phrase, extreme weather events, describes a harsh reality that some of you may have experienced. |
| 1:52.0 | Extreme weather means hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts. Events that destroy homes and cause injury and loss of life. |
| 2:04.2 | Tremendous devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa. |
| 2:07.9 | Terrifying the worst day of my entire life. |
| 2:10.8 | Once a village, now an island. |
| 2:15.2 | There's no food. |
| 2:20.2 | The most destructive wildfires ever to hit Los Angeles. |
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