Interviews about Earth Science

Interviews about geology, palaeontology, archaeology, atmospheric science, climate, climate change and meteorology...

13 November 2011

Richard Hollingham visits St. Brelade in Jersey to talk to a team of archaeologists who’re reappraising the caves to...

06 November 2011

How stable is the West Antarctic ice sheet. It’s one of the biggest questions in Climate Science. After all, if the...

04 November 2011

This week's NewsFlash explores how smoking could pave the way for cocaine use, how our skin sees sunlight in order...

16 October 2011

Rob Marrs explains how 'thug' species could be more damaging to our environment than invasive plant species...

16 October 2011

John Pickett discusses how plants can recruit insects to keep other pests at bay...

16 October 2011

Emily Seward takes you on a trip to find leaf miners...and they appear to be everywhere.

09 October 2011

Phytoplankton are the smallest organisms in the sea. Even so, these tiny little plants can be studied from space to...

09 October 2011

Could we soon be driving to work powered by algae? Emma Stoye discusses, with three Cambridge scientists, the potential...

09 October 2011

In the UK, we throw away over 7 million tonnes of food every year, the majority of which goes to landfill. But thanks...

06 October 2011

Why did 90% of ocean life vanish 250 million years ago? We find out as we dive into Permian seas to investigate an...

04 October 2011

Chris Hill and Martin Siegert tell Richard Holligham about the technology which will be used to drill through over 3km...

30 September 2011

In this week's news roundup we discuss Chinese Space Stations, the Dead Sea Scrolls going online, using CO2 to...

25 September 2011

When Turner and Constable first painted Stonehenge about two hundred years ago, the very famous monument was surrounded...

19 September 2011

Underground injection of carbon dioxide for carbon sequestration...

08 September 2011

Is there such a thing as sustainable whaling? And will the hunt continue? We find from the Secretary and head scientist...

04 September 2011

How dead dinosaurs fertilise forests, why mobile phones answer the call in emergencies, a DNA trip-switch for cancer...

04 September 2011

Richard Hollingham explores the process of carbon capture and utilisation where the carbon removed from our atmosphere...

28 August 2011

Alan Jamieson and his team have been tackling the task of exploring the ocean's deepest points, hadal regions,...

21 August 2011

Carbon capture and storage has been seen by the government as an important way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The...

21 August 2011

Current estimates suggest that there are over half a million people airborne around the planet at any moment in time....

14 August 2011

A new global initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project plans to build up a genetic picture of the billions of...

11 August 2011

Breeding seahorses in captivity to supply aquariums aims to help reduce pressure on wild populations.

07 August 2011

Water sports – surfing, body boarding, kite surfing, etc have all become increasingly popular in recent years, but the...

19 June 2011

Skyonic have developed “Skymine”, a system that not only extracts CO2 but actually turns it into something they can...