Interviews about Earth Science

What can be done to reduce the risk of flood damage in future?

What can cities do to reduce the risk of flooding? Professor Nigel Wright, from Leeds University, explains the Blue-...

Jenny Mant, from the River Restoration Centre, explains how we manage river levels and how we can stop rivers from...

Flood-victim Sheila Abrams, who lives in Debden, Cambridgeshire, recounts her experience of being flooded out...

How was a marsh turned into farmland centuries ago?

Is the extreme weather of recent years a consequence of climate change? Nobel prize winner Don Wuebbles argues that it...

An astonishing 7 million tons of food and drink is thrown out in the UK every year. We dig into this waste.

Refrigeration may be a bigger environmental issue than transporting food around the country...

We have to get our food from where it’s grown to where we buy it and to our houses. What can we do to try and reduce...

Examining Chris' shopping bag to find out the carbon footprint of his weekly shop.

The UK’s weather-forecasting service have announced that it will monitor the Sun’s activity. But what are researchers...

Storms on the Sun’s surface can affect spacecraft and power distribution grids. But can they also change the weather on...

Pitcairn inhabitants are lobbying to create the world's largest marine reserve, of nearly a million square...

Typhoon Haiyan affected over 11 million people and displaced more than 600,000 in the Philippines, but how are aid...

Could turbine rearrangement increase the amount of energy we get from wind farms?

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith use cabbage juice to show what effect carbon dioxide has on the atmosphere...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a volcanic crater using flour and a balloon, as well as answering questions from the...

Dave Ansell and Ginny Smith make a flame Tornado to explain how the weather phenomena form...

How can studying seismology help us understand and possibly predict earthquakes and volcanoes?

The tsunami which hit Japan in 2011 killed over 10,000 people and made hundreds of thousands homeless - but how did an...

Volcanologist Tehnuka Ilanko explains what volcanic gases can tell us about Magma and answers questions from the...

What happens to a tunnel in an earthquake? We discover how sand can liquefy...

Atmospheric Chemist Rod Jones explains how he's developed a pollution detector which fits in your pocket...

Andy Whiteley mapped the microbes hidden in the soil across the UK but when he moved to WA he knew it wouldn't be...