We witness the impacts of the climate crisis everyday but we hardly get to meet the scientists who dedicate their life to understanding, describing and predicting them. In fours interviews young scientists from Postdan told us about their stories: investigating the impacts of green extractivism, making climate and ecological models more precise, understanding the monsoon system in the tropics and supporting Indigenous rights and self-determination in the Arctic. By Andrés Ángel, Maria Goldrina, Mona Horn, Eva Lüdke and Carolina Naumann.