Planet Earth stories
Podcast: Common parasite hampers bees' homing ability
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Stephan Wolf of Queen Mary, University of London, and Jason Lim of Rothamsted Research explain why some honeybees may be struggling to make it back to the hive after foraging trips.
28 Oct 2014
Tags: Bees, Biology, Disease, Food, Insects, Natural resources, Podcasts, Pollinators, UK
Trout in hot water
Understanding the effects of climate change on ecosystems is a complex business. Eoin O'Gorman describes how trout living in geothermally-heated Icelandic streams are helping.
20 Oct 2014
Podcast: Robots to map marine life in key fishing areas
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Russell Wynn and Maaten Furlong of NERC's National Oceanography Centre tell us about a just-launched fleet of marine robots that will map ocean life in key fishing grounds off the southwest tip of Britain, in a trial heralded as the start of a new era of robotic research at sea.
14 Oct 2014
Tags: Fish, Mapping, Marine life, Natural resources, Oceans, Podcasts, Technology, UK
Scientists probe leak risk from seabed CO2 stores
A UK-led international research team has carried out the first experiment to recreate what would happen if CO2 started leaking after being stored deep under the sea floor. Their findings add weight to the idea that this could be a viable way to cut our impact on the climate.
1 Oct 2014
Tags: Environmental change, Marine life, Oceans, Pollution, Technology, UK
Podcast: How plastic pollution may harm marine life
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 of fragments of plastics from food packaging, drinks bottles, and even facial scrubs, on marine wildlife.
30 Sep 2014
Tags: Birds, Marine life, Microplastics, Oceans, Podcasts, Pollution, UK
Out of the laboratory and into the Amazon
Working in the field always makes research more challenging, and doing atmospheric science deep in the rainforest is especially tricky. Ben Langford describes how mosquito repellent, gaffer tape and children's balloons helped keep his project on track.
19 Sep 2014
Tags: Atmosphere, Climate, Forests
Podcast: Of sewage and superbugs
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Elizabeth Wellington and Greg Amos of the University of Warwick explain how sewage treatment could be helping spread highly drug-resistant bacteria around the environment.
16 Sep 2014
Honeybee homing hampered by parasite
Honeybees infected with a common parasite have a much lower chance of making it back from foraging trips, say scientists.
3 Sep 2014
Tags: Bees, Biology, Disease, Farming, Food, Insects, Natural resources, Pollinators, UK
Podcast: How marine life responds to underwater noise
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Steve Simpson and Rick Bruintjes of the University of Exeter and HR Wallingford describe a huge experiment to find out how man-made, underwater noise affects cod, plaice, crabs and other marine life.
2 Sep 2014
Tags: Fish, Marine life, Oceans, Podcasts
That sinking feeling
February 2014 saw the appearance of at least three times more sinkholes in the UK than is normal for a whole year. Sue Nelson talks to experts from the British Geological Survey to find out what's making these huge holes open up.
29 Aug 2014