How plastic pollution may harm marine life - Planet Earth Podcast - 14.09.30
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Tamara Galloway, Matt Cole and Ceri Lewis of the University of Exeter talk about their research on th...
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The evolution of the British peppered moth - Planet Earth Podcast - 14.08.19
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Ilik Saccheri and Arjen Van 't Hof of the University of Liverpool describe how the British Peppered M...
Tidal energy, turtle mating habits - Planet Earth Podcast - 13.03.12
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at the potential to generate up to 20 per cent of the UK's electricity from tidal energy; and...
Our ancient ancestors, deep sea worms - Planet Earth Podcast - 13.02.19
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why textbook illustrations of our early ancestors may have to be re-drawn; and why underwater canyons...
Using Genetics to Save the Ash Tree - Planet Earth Podcast - 13.02.05
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: decoding the ash tree's entire genetic sequence to produce a strain which is more resilient to ash di...
Avian pox in UK great tits, top conservation issues - Planet Earth Podcast - 13.01.22
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how a virus brought to the UK by insects poses a worrying threat to the country's great tit populatio...
Climate tipping points, basking sharks, primates - Planet Earth Podcast - 13.01.08
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why understanding where plankton congregates can help us protect basking sharks and other marine crea...
Planet Earth Podcast highlights from 2012 - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.12.26
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at some of the highlights from 12 months of the Planet Earth Podcast, including: a hairy crab;...
Citizen science projects, plants and greenhouse gases - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.12.11
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how you can get involved in any one of the wealth of UK citizen science projects that have taken off...
Bat calls, weather balloons, telomeres and ageing - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.11.27
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: an online tool to identify bats is helping to protect them, and it could make a scientist of us all....
Solutions to urban flooding, peatland carbon storage - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.11.15
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at potential solutions to urban flooding, and why scientists are so keen to measure carbon dio...
Unique plants in Bristol, contraceptives and fish - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.10.30
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how conservationists are using science to help protect rare plants found only in Bristol's Avon Gorge...
Man-made salt marshes, ground heat, storms - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.10.19
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why salt marshes are so important, but are difficult to recreate; how storms are made; and why the gr...
Future-proofing forests, noisy gannets, Antarctica - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.10.03
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: the steps scientists are taking to make sure the trees we plant today can cope with tomorrow's warmer...
Forecasting solar storms, fish personalities - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.09.18
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why accurately forecasting solar storms is becoming increasingly important; and how understanding how...
Early tetrapods, upland rivers, North Anatolian Fault - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.09.04
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: what the first creatures to walk on land looked like; the connection between the biodiversity of upla...
Bees and sex, acid rain's legacy, cold water corals - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.08.14
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: sex and the survival of honey bee colonies; why rivers are still recovering from the legacy of acid r...
Early African dairy farming, seabird migrations - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.07.31
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how dairy farming in Africa 7000 years ago led to the speedy evolution of the gene that lets us diges...
Brown water, bats and streetlights, plant methane - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.07.18
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how browner drinking water presents problems for the water companies; the effect of street lighting o...
Urban heat, ancient cave art, bold birds - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.07.05
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how urban heat islands will alter under climate change, and how these changes might affect...