Planet Visionaries spotlights climate innovators who are helping to solve some of the world’s most challenging environmental issues. In each episode, host Alex Honnold, an adventure rock climber and outdoor advocate, will talk to one of those leaders to learn about their work, background and what motivates them to preserve the earth. Listeners will hear from the world’s most renowned ocean explorer, a man who has dedicated his life to protecting penguins, a volcanologist who found a way to predict eruptions and a Peruvian biologist who is safeguarding sea life with the help of coastal communities. Taken together, the podcast will offer an intimate portrait of the diverse and dynamic people who are at the forefront of the quest to keep the planet perpetual.

Latest episodes of the podcast Planet Visionaries

• The climber who conquered the world’s toughest peaks — without extra oxygen
• Steve Boyes returns to tell how he’s finding hope on the rivers of Africa
• What one explorer has learned in a lifetime on the poles
• To save the Amazon, an explorer studies dolphins
• The secrets of a uniquely vibrant reef
• Conservationists return with a message of hope
• To ease thirst, she pulls water from the air
• “Her Deepness” returns to discuss the future of the sea
• To preserve the Andes, he’s planted millions of trees
• Using tradition to make clothing sustainably
• Season 4 Trailer
• How protecting bats protects the planet (and us)
• A promising new discovery in the Amazon
• Finding life under Arctic ice
• What ice might reveal about our climate future
• Why the Mediterranean needs more protection
• Live episode: Revolutionizing how we preserve the world underwater
• A powerful new tool for protecting the ocean
• Bringing ecosystems back to life
• A new key to climate resilience
• Season 3 Trailer
• Putting Indigenous expertise on the map
• Engineering an end to ‘hidden hunger’
• The small town taking on climate change
• What are ‘deep' reefs’?
• Exploring Earth’s underground secrets
• Diving to Chile’s hidden depths
• Meet Africa’s “Father of Turtles”
• How one man is saving hundreds of species
• Two pioneers talk bold new solutions to wildlife conservation
• Season 2 Trailer
• The scientist turning plastics into possibility
• Using sound technology to protect the rainforest
• A glaciologist's unexpected discovery
• Peru's protector of the seas
• The man who predicts eruptions
• The penguin protector
• The ocean explorer turned environmentalist
• Planet Visionaries Trailer