Interviews about Earth Science

Mythconception: "Red sky at night, shepherds delight, red sky in the morning, shepherds warning"

When the water rises, what can we do about it? Can we escape or do we need to learn to live with it?

When your home is flooded what are the risks, and why are developing countries hit harder and more often?

How do we know which areas will be hit worse in heavy rainfall? Cutting edge computing can give us a glimpse of the...

How much can we trust forecasters, and how far ahead can they predict the weather with accuracy?

What really killed the dinosaurs? Research this week has poured cold water on one of the leading theories...

Water on the earth is easy to spot but there is also a lot beneath the surface and some of this is very very old.

A forest fire of enormous proportions is devastating the people and biodiversity of Indonesia.

The loss of megafauna and their poo are starving the world's oceans of nutrients like phosphorus...

London is facing fines of £300 million per year for illegally polluting the air. What are the authorities doing to...

Should we travel to Mars to establish another base for humanity and give ourselves more chances for survival?

What would day-to-day life actually be like in a Mars settlement?

Cosmic radiation can be deadly, especially if a solar storm hits. How can we protect astronauts once they leave the...

If our climate continues to warm, will ocean circulation change? And what effect will this have on the future of our...

Have oceans circulated differently before, and what happened then?

What controls how water in the oceans moves, and how is this linked to climate?

The climate’s been changing for millions of years. How do we know, and why should we worry now?

Pupils will soon be sending mini-computers up onto the borders of space to collect data for their own analysis...

Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, but how did this happen?

New Horizons' images of Pluto have reignited debate over the dwarf planet's classification: should Pluto be...

The New Horizons probe has provided vast quantities of data on Pluto, but what has it told us that we didn't...

Finding meteors isn't too tricky, but working out where they came from is a different kettle of fish altogether...

Philae touched down on a comet back in 2014 but what has this revealed about the Kuiper Belt?

Rock formations can give clues about the climate in the past, but until now, we could only guess at how these...