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Just arrived on Planet Earth? Discover the science behind climate change, biodiversity, earthquakes, volcanoes, life in deep-sea trenches, and much more about the natural world. The Planet Earth podcast - putting you in touch with the latest environmental research.
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Cold water corals, meteorites, new greenhouse gases | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: scientists describe why the planet's least understood but most diverse species of coral is under threat. Also, what the meteorite strike that wiped the dinosaurs out would've been like; and why co2 isn't the only greenhouse gas we should be worried about. | 22 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drought and record rainfall, indoor avalanches | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: researchers explain why, despite record rainfall, England is in drought. Later, how scientists are using indoor avalanches to figure out where to put buildings and roads. Finally, news of ice loss in Antarctic, and the benefits of bat dung. | 8 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Microscopic plants, using volcanic ash for dating | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: we take a closer look at tiny marine plants, which underpin the entire marine food chain and play a vital role in the Earth's climate. Also, how scientists are using volcanic ash called tefra to tell how people may have responded to rapid environmental changes in the recent past. | 24 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fungal threats, hydrothermal vents, green buildings | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how fungal infections could threaten our food security as well as the planet's amphibians; work under way to understand the ecosystems around the hydrothermal vents in the Southern Ocean; and how it's people, not buildings, that use energy. | 10 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Air pollution, dwarf elephants and water footprints | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears about new air-quality monitoring that could help mitigate the effects of bad-air days; the effect of climate change on Mediterranean dwarf elephants; and exactly how many litres of water it took to make his morning coffee. | 26 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Invasive signal crayfish, shags, night-shining clouds | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham finds out why the American signal crayfish is driving out one of the UK's native species; in our latest audio diary, Hannah Grist from the University of Aberdeen talks us through her research on European shags; and what noctilucent clouds tell us about our changing climate. | 13 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson goes to the River Thames in central London to find out why nitrate pollution has trebled since the 1930s. Later on, she talks to a researcher about an unusual freshwater bulge in the Arctic, and asks if we should be concerned. Finally, we hear a round-up of some of the news from the natural world. | 28 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Testing satellites on Earth, hedgerow wildlife | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to find out how scientists check if the scientific equipment they put on satellites will work properly once in space. | 13 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out how scientific research is helping to revitalise this heavily-used river; later he goes to Cambridge to hear about some of the hottest conservation topics for 2012. | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction | It's not often that science news goes viral, but when researchers dubbed a new species the 'Hoff Crab' more people than usual seemed to take notice! | 16 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson goes to Birmingham to find out how the James Bond film Casino Royale and orang-utan conservation are linked; later she meets a scientist from the British Geological Survey to learn which parts of the UK power grid are most at risk during solar storms. | 2 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our best 2011 audio diaries | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: we've got an end-of-year bumper edition featuring the best of our audio diaries from 2011. We feature scientists reporting their research from the Arctic, Sweden, Canada, Monterey Bay in California, and the Antarctic. | 20 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Thames Barrier, the colour of prehistoric birds | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to decide whether or not to raise or lower it, helping to stop storm surges from flooding London; while Richard Hollingham meets a scientist who developed a technique that reveals the colour of truly ancient fossilised birds. | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ozone hole, starlings in Fair Isle, forest fires | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham talks to one of the scientists behind the discovery of the ozone hole to find why it's still there; how research on starlings on an island famous for its sweaters could help bird conservationists; and why forest fires in North America affect people thousands of miles away in Europe. | 22 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Treating snakebites, and European shags | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits the largest collection of venomous snakes in the UK to find out how researchers are developing antivenoms to help African snakebite victims; and what scientists are doing to understand why populations of the European shag are declining. | 8 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham meets scientists and archaeologists who are working to preserve one of the most important Neanderthal settlements in north-west Europe to find out how they lived; later on, he visits the local primary school to find out what schoolchildren make of the Neanderthals. | 25 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The deep sea, ancient proteins, Arctic research | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists find out about life in the oceans' deepest trenches; how identifying proteins from 50 milion year old reptile skin could help us store radioactive waste; and studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic. | 10 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spreading aliens, Arctic experience, and Antarctica | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how hikers and walkers could be unwittingly changing the landscape by spreading alien species; what it's like to work as a marine biologist in the Arctic in temperatures of minus 40°C; and exactly how stable is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet? | 26 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Engineering the climate to tackle climate change | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: in a geoengineering special edition, we take a closer look at some of the technologies we may have to resort to using to avert dangerous climate change. | 14 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stonehenge, microscopic plants, and baboons | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why scientists are working with the National Trust to restore the chalk grasslands around Stonehenge; how scientists are using satellites to study microscopic plants; and the etiquette of dining and bullying in baboons. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where do all the salmon go, and making CO2 bricks | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists are using fish scales to figure out why the UK salmon population is falling; and how carbon dioxide emissions from power stations could be used to make household bricks. | 11 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Searching for life in Lake Ellsworth, and dead whales | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why scientists are planning on drilling three kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet in one of the most ambitious exploration projects ever undertaken; and how worms that feed on dead whale bones at the bottom of the ocean may be distorting the whale fossil record. | 26 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rip currents in Cornwall, carbon capture and storage | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why understanding rip currents at Perranporth in north Cornwall could help save lives; and how exactly does carbon capture and storage (CCS) work and how can scientists be sure that co2 will be stored forever? | 12 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WWII bunkers, thugs and aliens, and calving glaciers | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why weathermen are using a converted World War II bunker to monitor clouds; how thug species such as bramble, nettle and bracken can be just as damaging to woodlands as alien plants; and why scientists are going to Greenland to deploy a network of sensors in some of the country's glaciers. | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bumblebee declines, microbes, and amazing birds | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: what UK farmers are doing to protect the country's vanishing bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinating insects; how scientists are trying to figure out how many types of microbes there are on our planet and why they all matter; and why birds are more amazing than we ever imagined. | 13 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, snow, and radiocarbon dating | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: the cunning tricks the cuckoo uses to get another bird to do the parenting, why researchers are studying snow in Sweden, and how an improved radiocarbon dating technique may put a few scientists' noses out of joint. | 1 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flood defences, the Southern Ocean, and whiter clouds | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why removing some man-made coastal flood defences might not be such a harebrained idea, what it's like studying gas exchange in the wilds of the Southern Ocean, and -- in what could be the first case of 'natural' geoengineering -- how forests could be whitening the clouds right above them. | 18 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science from a plane, and forecasting space storms | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how a specially-designed twin turboprop research plane is helping scientists in a huge range of subjects from archaeology to ecology, and why a violent space storm could spell trouble for communications systems across the world. | 4 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Volcanic ash from Iceland, and sediment time machines | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how last year's eruption of the still-unpronounceable Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland gave scientists an unparalleled opportunity for research, and why sediment from rivers like the Thames can act like time machines to bygone eras. | 19 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Earth's magnetic field, snow, and Chernobyl | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists plan to measure the Earth's magnetic field from space, why one researcher is in the frozen town of Churchill in northern Canada, and how the Chernobyl disaster still affects Northern Ireland 25 years on. | 5 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fish poo, dead whales, and the Japan earthquake | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how the famous White Cliffs of Dover could be made of fish poo (at least partially), why one researcher is so interested in dead whales, and why the Japan earthquake was so powerful and devastating. | 23 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carbon capture and storage, floods, CryoSat-2 | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how carbon capture and storage works and why it's here to stay, the effect of floodplains on water pollution, and how exactly do you measure the thickness of polar ice from space? | 7 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracking insects with a Big Dish, Australian floods | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how tracking insects can help scientists forecast summer storms and floods, and the role one of Europe's key satellite missions played in the recent floods in Queensland, Australia. | 22 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Romans recycling, dinosaur colour, gravity mission | This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how the Romans recycled glass, dinosaur colour, and what Europe's gravity mission tells us about ocean currents. | 8 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noisy coral reefs, melting ice sheets and whale speak | In this latest watery-themed Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the soundless place you might imagine. | 24 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Essex coral reefs, malaria in the UK, and Antarctica | As the UK winter continues to bite, Sue Nelson tries to escape it all by going to visit a coral reef. | 10 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An audio diary special edition | In this week's special edition of the Planet Earth podcast, we feature some of our favourite audio diaries from the past year. | 20 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Red squirrels and a tropical Antarctica | Red squirrels used to be the most common squirrel in Britain. But since the grey squirrel was introduced from the USA as an illegal immigrant in the late 1800s, their numbers have nose-dived. | 6 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Palm oil plantations, charcoal, and a flea circus | Does your shopping basket contain chocolate, biscuits and shampoo? If it does, you may be unwittingly contributing to the destruction of the some of the world's pristine rainforests. | 23 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kew Gardens, Antarctica and ancient trees | In this week's Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson reports from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where she finds out that some plants like the Snake's Head Fritillary have enormous amounts of DNA in their genomes. | 8 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barrel jellyfish and supercooled water | Unless you've never seen the sea, you've probably seen a jellyfish. And even if you haven't seen one, you will almost certainly know what they look like. Despite this, scientists know surprisingly little about them. | 25 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The risks of following the herd, and banded mongooses | Have you ever noticed that when you cross a busy road, as well as clocking the traffic, you subconsciously follow what your neighbours do? | 11 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lake Windermere and walking with dinosaurs | British Geological Survey scientists have completed the first full geological survey of Lake Windermere in the English Lake District since the Royal Navy made a survey in the 1930s. | 27 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plastics in the oceans and tracking satellites | Scientists recently found plastics floating in some of the most remote and inaccessible seas in the world -- just off the coast of Antarctica. | 13 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Butterflies, buoys and the English Channel | In this week's Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the Eden Project in Cornwall, southwest England and to the South Downs in southeast England to find out what butterfly research is telling us about climate change. | 30 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rockpools and ocean acidification | Everyone loves a rockpool, and Sue Nelson nearly takes a dive into one in this week's podcast while finding out about the riches they contain. | 15 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arctic terns, satellites and conker trees | As the map of Earth's gravity -- as revealed by the European Space Agency's sleek GOCE satellite -- comes into sharper focus, Richard Hollingham speaks to a researcher who tells us what early results from the satellite show. | 2 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bowerbirds, a yellow sub and measuring CO2 | This week, Richard Hollingham finds out that bowerbirds are not just brilliant at making elaborate bowers, they're also good at mimicking other birds and pretty much most sounds they hear -- including human voices. | 19 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arctic expedition special | This week Richard Hollingham reports from an unusual and somewhat cold location - onboard the British Antarctic Survey's RRS {i:James Clark Ross} which was stuck in the ice for two weeks 1000 kilometres from the North Pole. | 4 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Splitting Earth, space weather and robotic dolphins | In this week's Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson hears about the birth of an ocean in the Afar depression in the Horn of Africa. | 20 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orangutans, green buildings and an Antarctic GP | With efforts to improve energy efficiency focussed on green transport to sustainable power generation, growing your own food to reducing waste, it's often easy to forget that the very buildings we live and work in could also be made energy efficient. | 7 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leeches, earthquakes and weird sea-life | It seems that hardly a week goes by without a major earthquake striking somewhere in the world, which may be why many people have been asking scientists at the British Geological Survey if earthquakes are getting more frequent. | 25 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ash cloud, giant ants and Borneo rainforest | As ash from Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to nudge at UK airspace, Richard Hollingham takes a closer look at the aircraft that flew into April's cloud. | 10 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Antarctica, wild geese and ash plumes | You could be forgiven for thinking the freezing seas around Antarctica are pretty barren and lifeless. But, as Richard Hollingham soon finds out, this couldn't be further from the truth. | 25 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hi-tech physics, toxic soils and mussel shells | In this week's Planet Earth podcast from the impressively-named Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, England, hear how two researchers are using hi-tech physics to study different aspects of the environment. | 12 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate science, Vikings and other invasive species | Look around the English countryside and you'll find animals and plants that shouldn't be there -- from Muntjac deer to Mitten crabs, Harlequin ladybirds to Tree of Heaven. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oil palm plantations and coral reefs | Coral reefs are among the most beautiful habitats in the world. As well as being rich in biodiversity, they're vital for the local economies that depend on them for fishing, tourism or protection from storms. | 15 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harassed guppies and promiscuous fruit flies | In this week's X-rated edition of the Planet Earth podcast, we find out what sexual conflict means for female guppies, how female promiscuity may be a good thing and why female mongooses all give birth at the same time. | 1 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Energy crops, CryoSat-2 and bird bling | Willow, palm, miscanthus and other energy crops are being touted as a possible solution to our growing energy security problems. Some people are suggesting that they could help replace fossil fuels, plugging Britain's energy gap and cutting our carbon footprint. | 15 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geoengineering, wind and sea squirts | This week we talk to two researchers about the technological solutions some scientists say we might have to use to tackle climate change. | 8 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Teeth, spiders and epic migrations | This week we find out why teeth can tell archaeologists so much about the past, how to see giant spiders in 3D and why even fish understand that patience is a virtue. | 25 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gold, storms and dinosaurs | In this week's podcast, Richard Hollingham strikes gold - literally - while Sue Nelson finds out why weather forecasters still struggle to predict sudden, violent summer storms. | 10 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Highlights from 2009 | In this week's podcast, we look back at some of the highlights from 12 months of Planet Earth podcasts, and look ahead to some of the big stories expected in 2010. | 21 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate change special | As the world talks global warming, we go to one of the chilliest places in Europe - the British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) ice core store - to find out what evidence there is for manmade climate change. | 11 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Satellites and acid oceans | With climate change and the talks in Copenhagen dominating the news right now, we find out how satellites have revolutionised our understanding of climate change. | 29 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ice clouds and viper venom | If you're a scientist at the University of Manchester and you want some snow or even some ice clouds, you don't need to leave the building. | 16 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protecting geological heritage | The UK is literally full of geology - so much so that many names of geological periods come from names of regions of the country. The most well-known being the Devonian (after Devon) and the Cambrian (the old name for Wales). | 1 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aliens and underwater volcanoes | Britain's being invaded by aliens. But they're not the sorts of aliens you'll see in science fiction movies. No, we're talking plants and animals. You've probably heard of a lot of them. Grey squirrels, harlequin ladybirds, buddleia, Japanese knotweed - the list goes on. | 19 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vanishing fish stocks | We've been told for years to eat more fish because it's so good for us. The Food Standards Agency advises everyone to eat at least two portions a week, one of which should be oily. | 5 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ocean currents and great tits | This week Richard Hollingham talks to Professor Meric Srokosz from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton about a new European Space Agency satellite, due to be launched on 2 November. | 21 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ice cores and disused mines | In the first instalment of our new and improved Planet Earth podcast, science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson talks to Professor David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) about the changes seen around the continent. | 5 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping abandoned mines safe | It's not obvious from the peaceful scene at ground level, but a disused salt mine in Carrickfergus near Belfast is a real threat to nearby housing and businesses. | 23 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preserving geodiversity | Straddling two counties, one in Northern Ireland and one in the Irish Republic, Marble Arch Caves is the world's only transinternational and UNESCO-endorsed geopark. | 16 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Air conditioning for plants | Researchers from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will soon be able to replicate habitats from around the world in a structure that's akin to a huge polytunnel. | 10 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Galling attack | Gall wasps are so named because they con plants and trees into making so-called galls - abnormal growths - which they use as a defence against their enemies. | 3 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life in the ice | The 20 million square kilometres of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica every winter is made of more than just water. It contains million of microscopic creatures. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Predicting the risk of flood | Summer 2007 saw some of the worst floods in Britain since the 1940s. | 20 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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With or without you | Ozone gas is like Jekyll and Hyde: it's both good and bad. Too much is poisonous, but without it life on Earth isn't possible. | 13 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hedgehog Day | Although their numbers are in decline in mainland Britain, hedgehog populations have grown so large in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, they are now seen as a pest. | 6 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fish of a shoal stick together | Fish perceive simple rivers as safe places to be, so they spend more time swimming around in shoals than fish in more varied habitats. | 28 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our changing estuaries | The Dee Estuary in northwest England has been used as a shipping channel since the start of the industrial revolution. | 22 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cracking down on illegal fishing | The international fishing industry has taken big steps in recent years towards improving the sustainability of fish stocks. Despite this, illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing is still a major problem in many areas of the world's oceans. | 15 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fish food | Phytoplankton are tiny single-celled plants found throughout the world's oceans. Although they're small, they're crucial, because they provide food for the rest of the marine food chain. | 7 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Viper venom packs a tailored punch | Venom from different viper species is tailored to its favourite prey, new research says. | 29 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Craig Venter visits Plymouth Marine Lab | Possibly one of the world's best known geneticists, Craig Venter, has visited scientists at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory on his Sorcerer II yacht. | 21 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Watching volcanoes | Predicting when a volcano will blow has to be one of the holy grails of geology. Geologists have got much better at this than they used to be by constantly monitoring active volcanoes and studying ancient ones to figure out how they work. | 17 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life in an ice-free Arctic | The polar regions are changing faster than anywhere else on Earth. Scientists now predict the Arctic will be ice-free over the summer in just 10 or 20 years' time. The question is, how will this affect the region's biology? | 10 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The ice mission | The poles are warming up faster than any other region on the planet. Arctic sea ice is both thinning and receding and Antarctic ice shelves are either disintegrating or are at risk of collapse. A recent study suggests human activity is to blame. | 5 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seaglider goes forth | Arctic sea ice reached a record low extent in summer 2007 and its thickness the following winter also decreased. Researchers are keen to figure out what's behind the melt and are concerned that climate change might be to blame. | 26 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The trouble with bees | Bees are in big trouble: many species' populations are declining. With around a third of the food we eat coming from crops pollinated by insects and 90 per cent of the UK's wildflowers relying on insects for pollination, this is far from good news. | 20 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Monitoring earthquakes | Earthquakes are a deadly natural hazard. Every week somewhere around the world, an earthquake occurs that's big enough to cause serious damage to people, roads and buildings. | 13 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What lurks beneath the surface? | As the climate changes and the risk of extreme flooding increases, more and more of us could be exposed to pathogens when excess floodwater meets contaminated soil. | 7 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Autosub 6000 | Able to dive to a depth of 6000 metres, Autosub 6000 allows scientists to access more than 90 per cent of the Earth's ocean floors. Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham finds out more about what's in store for this robot submarine. | 29 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forecasting future famines | Today at the Sustainable Development UK 09 conference in London, the UK government's chief scientific advisor, Professor John Beddington, predicts a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030. | 18 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Early taming of horses | Horses were domesticated a thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to a team of researchers. | 6 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Physical attractions | In March, the European Space Agency launches what has been dubbed 'the Formula One of spacecraft'. The Earth observation satellite's sleek design is essential because its orbit is so low it will literally skim the top of the atmosphere. | 3 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sounding out renewables | Most people wouldn't dispute that generating energy from wave or tidal power is good for the environment. But what is the impact of underwater devices used to harness energy on marine animals like whales, dolphins and fish? | 22 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cormorant antics | Cormorants drying their wings in the sun are a common sight along many rivers and coasts around the world. Although they feed underwater, they have partially wettable feathers. Science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson finds out why. | 15 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 98 Episodes |
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