Interviews about Earth Science

This week, Mark Peplow comes in to tell us about the moves towards holographic 3D TV, how it could take years to pay...

The Louisiana wetlands are the largest in the USA and amongst the largest wetlands in the world, playing a vital role...

despite being expanses of waterlogged land, wetlands actually offer great protection against flooding. So good, in...

Wetlands are disappearing faster than rainforests, and support a huge number of species as well as offering protection...

Could we trap carbon in dis-used coal mines? Meera spoke to Prof. Peter Styles about how not only could we lock away...

Volcanic lava could offer a solution to storing excess carbon - by turning it into rock! We spoke to Dr Pete McGrail,...

Could the ocean provide a good 'sink' for carbon dioxide? We invited Margaret Leinen, from Climos, and Dr...

Now, we all know what snowflakes are, but have you ever gone out and looked at them properly? They’ve got extremely...

We’re all being asked to lower our carbon footprint and one area where you’d think this would be nearly impossible is...

In the UK, this summer has been the wettest on record so far, so what is going on with the weather?

Richard Turner volunteered to have his body tested to extremes of endurance at Everest base camp, all in the name of...

David Thomas is a marine biologist from the University of Wales, Bangor. His work takes him all over the world and he...

For kitchen science, we sent Azi to find out how to make biodiesel from vegetable oil, and to prove that it really...

It's all well and good being excited about new fuels, but are the arguments for using them really sound? Can we...

We spoke to Peter Kelemen, who studies the earthquakes that originate deep in the mantle of the Earth

Michael Watts on how to search for arsenic in contaminated land, and the impact on people's health

Janet Sumner discusses how the meteorite we're familiar with may have just been the straw that broke the dinosaur...

We spoke to Dr Trevor Emmett, lecturer in Forensic Science at Anglia Ruskin University about what forensics is, an dhow...

Terry Hurford tells us about a geyser on one of Saturns moons so powerful it puts water into one of Saturn's rings.

Jonathan Shanklin was part of the team from the British Antarctic Survey who first discovered the hole in the ozone...

This week Chelsea and Bob look at water in our atmosphere. Chelsea looks at why some places get too little, while Bob...

Azi Khatiri spoke to Rod Jones about how water molecules pair up into a dimer - and that this can be an even worse...

The eruption of the Laki fission in Iceland in 1783 led to sulphurous smog falling over Europe. It has been described...