{"id":430690,"date":"2026-01-24T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430690\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:39:10","slug":"inside-global-soccers-battle-against-climate-change-full-time-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430690\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Global Soccer’s Battle Against Climate Change | Full Time Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are in the thick of the \u2018Summer of Soccer\u2019 \u2013 from the UEFA Women\u2019s Euros, to CAF’s Women\u2019s African Cup of Nations, to FIFA’s Men\u2019s Club World Cup, and with the NWSL set to return on August 2nd \u2013 it is all happening. And, as I\u2019m sure you\u2019re experiencing, the summers are fraught with extreme heat, hurricanes, storms and droughts\u2026and yet, the soccer still goes on. On this week’s Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan to dive a little bit deeper into how the NWSL and global soccer intends to keep up with climate change \u2013 how can leagues, teams and governing bodies adapt to climate? Who does the responsibility fall on? And, how will soccer look in the future? To help do that, the podcast enlisted the help of climate sports researcher, and author of the book \u2018Warming Up: How Climate is Changing Sport\u2019, Dr, Madeleine Orr. Chapter descriptions: 00:00 Intro 03:46 How the climate crisis is affecting soccer 07:37 How the Houston Dash keep safe in extreme heat 13:49 Climate change and soccer with Dr. Madeleine Orr 41:49 Reflections and Euros discussion 52:24 Outro ———— #nwsl #uswnt #wsl ———— Thumbnail credits: Alexander Hassenstein \/ Staff \/ Getty Images Europe via Getty Images Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter to get all the latest women’s soccer news straight to your inbox every Tuesday: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/newsletters\/full-time\/ Get in touch: fulltime@theathletic.com Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Catch the full episodes of Full Time right here \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83d\udc47 \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/apple.co\/3RJUen2 \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3W25Q77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are in the thick of the \u2018Summer of Soccer\u2019 \u2013 from the UEFA Women\u2019s Euros, to CAF’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[179446,49,48,6093,14297,105833,179447,8081,561,82,179448],"class_list":["post-430690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-african-cup-of-nations","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-club-world-cup","tag-global-soccer","tag-meg-linehan","tag-nwsl","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tamerra-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}