Solving-FCB Podcast
The Solving-FCB Podcast, hosted by Duncan Murray, explores why it’s crucial to address the issues arising at the meeting point of food, climate, and biodiversity. This series will feature conversations with scientists from around the world about their ongoing research within the Solving FCB project, and will also touch upon the progress of different case studies within the partnership.
Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 2
March 24, 2025
Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya: Fisheries, Ecology, and Community, with Fresia Villalobos-Rojas and Dr. Christian Birkel

Episode 2 of the Solving-FCB Podcast explores the unfolding ecological and socioeconomic crisis in Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, where climate change, overfishing, and agricultural runoff are driving a dangerous decline in fish populations and threatening local livelihoods.

Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 1
March 24, 2025
Tackling Sustainability at the Food, Climate, and Biodiversity Nexus, with Dr. William Cheung

The podcast’s first episode features an interview with the project’s co-director, who explains the project’s importance and its efforts to address these complex interactions, drawing on his personal experiences with changing marine environments.

Deep Dive
Deep Dive is an experimental AI-generated podcast series that brings our core publications to a wider audience in an engaging and accessible way. Each 10-15 minute episode features a dynamic two-host discussion, breaking down key concepts from a selected paper in a conversational format. While episodes are reviewed to ensure alignment with the paper’s findings and accuracy, minor inaccuracies in language or scientific terminology may occasionally occur due to the nature of generative AI.
Deep Dive: Aquaculture
A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals.
Deep Dive: Climate Change & Impacting the Beaufort Sea Shelf
Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web.
Deep Dive: UN High Seas Treaty & Climate Action
The new UN high seas marine biodiversity Agreement may also facilitate climate action: a cautiously optimistic view
Deep Dive: Climate Change & Heart Health in Indigenous Communities
Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.
Deep Dive: Ocean Forecasting – FishMIP 2.0
Detecting, attributing, and projecting global marine ecosystem and fisheries change: FishMIP 2.0.
Deep Dive: How Climate Change is Impacting Fish
Comparative analysis of climate-induced changes in distribution of representative fish species in the Yellow Sea
Deep Dive: Seaweed Farming
Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming.
Deep Dive: The Future of Seafood
The WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement.