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Planet Earth
We bring you the highlights of NERC's Planet Earth Podcast
Recent Episodes
81 episodesHow 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 the effects...
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 Moth change...
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 why unders...
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 contain a...
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 dieback; the...
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 population; and whi...
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 creatures; how...
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; earthquak...
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 recently,...
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. Also, an a...
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 dioxide flow...
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, and are...
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 ground benea...
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 climate;...
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 fish shoa...
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 upland rivers...
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 rain; and c...
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 digest milk; an...
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 on bats and...
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 your healt...
Bees, nanomaterials, and methane on Mars - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.06.19
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how knowing exactly which bees pollinate which crops may help us grow food more sustainably; and a look at the...
Medical diagnostics, the value of nature - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.06.06
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at how technology designed to measure air pollution may soon be used to smell disease on a patient's bre...
Cold water corals, meteorites, new greenhouse gases - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.05.23
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,...
Drought and record rainfall, indoor avalanches - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.05.10
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: researchers explain why, despite record rainfall, England is in drought. Later, how scientists are using indoor...
Microscopic plants, using volcanic ash for dating - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.04.25
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...
Fungal threats, hydrothermal vents, green buildings - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.04.16
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 un...
Air pollution, dwarf elephants and water footprints. - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.03.27
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;...
Invasive signal crayfish, shags, night-shining clouds - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.03.14
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...
River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.03.05
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 1...
Testing satellites on Earth, hedgerow wildlife - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.02.17
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to find out how scientists che...
Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.01.31
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 helpin...
The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.01.17
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! L...
Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms - Planet Earth Podcast - 12.01.09
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 ar...
The Thames Barrier, the colour of prehistoric birds - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.12.12
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...
The Ozone Hole, Starlings in Fair Isle, Forest Fires - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.11.22
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 stil...
Treating snakebites, and European shags - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.11.08
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 developi...
Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.11.02
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Richard Hollingham meets scientists and archaeologists who are working to preserve one of the most important Ne...
The deep sea, ancient proteins, Arctic research - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.10.11
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how scientists find out about life in the oceans' deepest trenches; how identifying proteins from 50 milion ye...
Spreading aliens, Arctic experience, and Antarctica - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.09.28
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 t...
Engineering the climate to tackle climate change - Planet Earth Podcast - 11.09.14
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...