Interviews about Earth Science

Believe it or not - drilling into a volcano can be a great way to understand the processes going on underfoot. The...

The key to understanding the behaviour of a volcano must lie, partly at least, in understanding the plumbing system...

Gillian Foulger expalins how volcanoes form, and how certain types of volcano may not form in the way most geologists...

As well as blanket football coverage, it’s been very hard to miss news about the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico....

Meera explored Grand Designs Live at London's Excel centre to find greener ways to fill your home with gadgets...

Most of us are familiar with the long trails left behind by airplanes as they pass overhead. But those trails or...

Adverse weather causes billions of pounds worth of damage every year. Eurotempest, a spin off from the University...

Moshe Alamaro explains how it may be possible to steer hurricanes away from danger...

The human population is estimated to be about 6.8 billion right now, and it’s set to grow to over 9 billion by 2040....

Can nanotechnology make solar cells more efficient? We find out how tweaking a surface at the nano-scale could allow...

Flexible solar cells could revolutionise the way solar cells can be used, we hear how they're made and where they...

Most of the water that we use comes from reservoirs. These artificial lakes are often created by damming a river then...

Eugene Cloete explains how the NEPAD water initiative aims to bring together scientists working in the field of water...

Richard Harding explains how the WATer and global CHange Network, WATCH, is setting about monitoring how water usage...

Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...

Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...

Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...

James Jackson explains how satellites can look for changes in landscapes following earthquakes. Spotting patterns in...

Martin Wagner explains how his team have been looking into the release of oestrogen-like chemicals from in our mineral...

Meera Senthilingam gets her hands wet and dirty this week to see how the river Cam is kept clean...

We discover the geology behind the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti...

"The train standing at platform mgph is the phuy-hfgjy to mmughpyhmm..." We meet a sound simulation system...

Dr Matt Balme dicusses the changes that sculpt the surface of Mars...

The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheets is accelerating and Jonathan Bamber discusses the evidence...