Interviews about Earth Science

The urban heat island effect sees artificial surfaces in built up areas acting as storage heaters - making cities...

If you’ve ever turned on a tap for a glass of cool clear water and watched brown water coming out instead, then you’ll...

In 2006, scientists discovered that plants produce significant amounts of the greenhouse gas, methane. The research...

A major seven year study has been launched in the UK to investigate the link between biodiversity and the services...

As if carbon dioxide and methane aren’t enough to worry about, it now seems that we’re managing to make a whole load of...

One of the most fundamental questions about how life began in the first place must be answered here on Earth. We...

From seaweed to red sea migrants, we get the low down on invasions in the marine realm.

Katy Owen explains the importance of microscopic plankton in our oceans and their role in our enviroment...

Aberystwyth University scientist Jamie Newbold discusses how changes to farming practices can alter the microbes inside...

We explore a future of private space missions, how swimming the atlantic can provide insight into the state of our...

We explore how sand can be used to predict the outcome of an avalanche...

We explore how tephra ash can be analysed to date archaeological sites, clarify the effects of environmental and...

A new test to predict the pathology of a virus, ice sheet instability in Antarctica, the rewarding feeling of talking...

Dr Henrik Svensen reveals what craters in Africa can tell us and if the cause for mass extinction can be unearthed by...

Nils Christian Stenseth discusses the dwindling lemming population cycles...

Imaging human tissue in 3 dimensions, a potential drug to treat autism, how wind turbines are affecting local...

How do subsea volcanoes affect the acidity of seawater? And how can this then affect the species found nearby? Robyn...

A major international collaboration is embarking on a mission to conduct the first systematic study of life in the...

The World Health Organisation estimates that every year almost two and a half million people worldwide die as a direct...

How memories can be re-written to prevent drug relapse, the effects of social rank on gene expression and health, how...

White pox disease is wiping out Elkhorn coral in the Caribbean and the culprit is rather hard to stomach.

Sue Nelson explores the missing pieces of the dwarf elephant puzzle and what these extinct animals can tell us about...

What was the atmosphere like on the Earth nearly 3 billion years ago? Well that's a pretty tough question to...