Interviews about Earth Science

We ask a bunch of oceans experts if they are optimistic or pessimistic about the future of the oceans.

Which threats to the ocean will be greatest concern in the years to come?

The Planet Earth team find out how the East Anglian Fen lands are helping to model climate change through peat......

Britain’s continuing wet weather has highlighted a serious problem facing towns and cities – urban flooding. Rather...

DNA functions a bit like a recipe book which tells you to cook up the chemicals that they need to function. But...

Humans have been exploring the oceans above and beneath the waves for thousands of years, most recently into the dark...

Humans enter our story of the history of the oceans

The story of the oceans begins 3.5 billion years ago with living rocks that made the earth habitable.

Publicity and fundraising campaigns often focus on the cute, charismatic or cuddly animals, possibly leaving nature’s...

You could be forgiven for thinking that microbes are not, and should not be, a conservation priority. But that’s not...

One of Britain’s most unusual landscapes can be found along its coastline. Salt marshes are home to unique species of...

Headlines like “Palm trees grew on Antarctica” abounded when climate scientists recently found evidence that the...

Laundry detergent containing a special additive could convert clothes into pollution-busting air filters, according to...

Global warming may dominate today’s environmental headlines but not so long ago it was acid rain. This emerged after...

Diet in pregnancy affects cancer risk for the women, their daughters, and their granddaughters...

An abandoned Arctic settlement, called Nunalek, has been uncovered in West Alaska...

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

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...