{"podcast":{"title":"Climate Cast","slug":"climate-cast-316665","podcast_index_feed_id":316665,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/climate-cast","website_url":"http://www.mprnews.org/podcasts/climate-cast","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/bd9da8b58a0915f25f6fab3027f5afb22fd819f0/square/e9d9ca-20220913-climate-cast-podcast-art-2000.jpg","author":"Minnesota Public Radio","episode_count":60,"summary":"MPR News meteorologist Paul Huttner with the latest research on our changing climate.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:21:17.843139+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-cast-316665"},"episode":{"title":"How a Minnesota startup is taking carbon out of the atmosphere","slug":"how-a-minnesota-startup-is-taking-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere","published_at":"2026-03-13T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-cast-316665/how-a-minnesota-startup-is-taking-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-cast-316665","url":"https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/03/13/how-a-minnesota-startup-is-taking-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VnCzW2iO9G8z4eDWfXCd/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/minnesota/podcasts/climate_cast/2026/03/12/climate_cast_03_12_2026_20260312_128.mp3?awCollectionId=apm-ClimCast&awEpisodeId=01KKHFM54BDA3EHZCZN001NYR8","summary":"Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. But there are people here in Minnesota working on solutions for managing those emissions. MPR News chief meteorologist Paul Huttner spoke with Paul Dauenhauer, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the UM College of Science and Engineering, about the start-up company Carba, of which he is a cofounder. Through Carba, they have developed a proprietary process that converts plant-based waste material into biochar, a stable material that sequesters carbon and can be buried underground for more than 1,000 years","meta_description":"Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. But there are…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":286,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/climate-cast-316665/episodes/how-a-minnesota-startup-is-taking-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-cast-316665/how-a-minnesota-startup-is-taking-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}