© 2024 WSHU
NPR News & Classical Music
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
89.9 FM is currently running on reduced power. 89.9 HD1 and HD2 are off the air. While we work to fix the issue, we recommend downloading the WSHU app.

Higher Ground

Joshua Joseph/WSHU Public Radio

Higher Ground

Climate change is already here. On Long Island, communities must prepare, and people find ways to adapt to rising tides and extreme weather that threatens America's first suburbs. Higher Ground tells the stories of these communities exploring solutions that may or may not give them the best chance at survival and help save the places millions of people call home. Or they may discover that the only way forward for suburban America is retreating from the sea. Hosted and reported by J.D. Allen.

Subscribe to Higher Ground on Apple, Google, Spotify and Stitcher.

Support comes from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, and the Kavli Foundation.
  • Josh Joseph
    /
    WSHU
    Ask your NPR station to play Higher Ground's third special program distributed nationally by American Public Media from January to May 2024.
  • Josh Joseph
    /
    WSHU
    Missed the second season of Higher Ground? Catch the one-hour special program selected by American Public Media for national distribution.
  • The quality of the water — either what falls from the sky when it rains, floods from the coast when it storms, or bubbles up the tap to drink — is on the minds of our student scientists. So, they build an innovative prototype to reuse water.
  • The student scientists identify air pollution as an avoidable sign of climate change in their neighborhoods. So, we start to bring their research and questions to Bridgeport's policymakers to see how the ideas of middle school students can help protect their city.
  • The student scientists are still learning how to identify and use reliable information about climate change. These teens are trying to figure out what their role can be in addressing this seemingly overwhelming problem.
  • We are headed outdoors to make observations — to see Bridgeport through the eyes of its youngest residents. The eighth-grade student scientists will record what they find, helping them better identify with the global climate crisis in their neighborhoods.
  • We are teaming up with an after-school program for Bridgeport middle schoolers to explore how students perceive the global climate crisis in their neighborhoods.
  • We are setting up home base in Bridgeport. It's among the youngest places in an aging Connecticut. Young people here — and everywhere — want climate action.
  • Missed the first season of Higher Ground? Catch the one-hour special program selected by American Public Media for national distribution.
  • Nature will eventually take its course — with our help or without it. If we are going to choose to live by the coast, the future will remain uncertain.…
  • Millionaires in the Hamptons may have the resources for the fight against the effects of climate change, but other communities more disproportionately…
  • Some of our feathered friends are endangered and other seasonal birdwatching favorites might not stick around much longer unless humans become better…