Planet Earth stories
Podcast: Carbon capture and marine life
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Jerry Blackford and Steve Widdicombe of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory talk about the world's first carbon capture and storage leakage experiment which looks at its effects on the marine environment.
23 Dec 2014
From the age of the dinosaurs?
The term 'living fossil' was coined by Darwin and has since been applied to various species that appear not to have changed for millions of years. But when Africa Gómez and colleagues took a closer look at tadpole shrimps they concluded we should ditch the term for good.
19 Dec 2014
Tags: Evolution, Genetics, Marine life, Rivers and lakes
Podcast: UK flooding - Past, present and future
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Terry Marsh and Mike Acreman from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology talk about their work on UK flooding.
10 Dec 2014
Tags: Climate, Environmental change, Flooding, Podcasts, Rivers and lakes, UK
What's eating you
These days we can get a prescription for many infections, but what happens when you have more than one at a time? Emily Griffiths explains how we can look at co-infection in a way that could help us devise more effective treatments.
28 Nov 2014
Podcast: Why the UK's moths are under pressure
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Richard Fox of Butterfly Conservation and Tom Oliver of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology explain how records of millions of moths, citizen science and expert analysis are showing that populations of large moths are under increasing pressure.
25 Nov 2014
Tags: Biodiversity, Ecology, Farming, Insects, Podcasts, Pollinators, UK
Podcast: The effects of metal pollution on fish
This week in the Planet Earth podcast, Jamie Stevens and Josie Paris of the University of Exeter explain how some fish have adapted to heavily polluted rivers in southwest England.
11 Nov 2014
Microscope hack could offer cheap disease testing
A new solution to measure cell movement could save scientists hundreds of thousands of pounds, says the researcher who developed the method to save himself time and money in the lab.
10 Nov 2014
Tags: Disease
The science of sustainable drainage
As the floods that struck Britain in early 2014 made all too clear, heavy rain can be bad news for homes, businesses and the environment. Tom Marshall found out how the British Geological Survey is helping housebuilders control flooding while saving money.
7 Nov 2014
Tags: Environmental change, Hazards, Health, Natural resources, Pollution, UK, Water, Weather
Hungarian red mud spill did little long-term damage
The after effects of the 2010 red mud spill that threatened to poison great swathes of the Hungarian countryside have turned out to be far less harmful than scientists originally feared.
3 Nov 2014
Tags: Pollution
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