For What It’s Earth

Latest Episodes:

47: Air pollution: What are we breathing in? Jan 19, 2021

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What's going on with the air that we breathe? Well, quite a lot, it seems. We're chatting today about the causes of air pollution, the problems it can cause for our own health and things like farming and our food supply, and we explore some of the possible solutions.

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46: Tom Carroll: Saving the rainforest with TikTok Jan 06, 2021

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Science and Tech YouTuber & Content Creator Tom Carroll joins the podcast to chat about using TikTok to save the rainforest, why wind farms are moving further offshore and what’s so exciting about 3D printing coral reefs (and also to catch up with us, as we're also old uni chums).

Find Tom on YouTube and Instagram.

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45: Merry Christmas-is-a-bit-cancelled bonus Q&A! Dec 23, 2020

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This week, literally moments after the big covid-bans-holiday-fun announcement, we recorded a festive episode answering your questions! We can't promise you Pulitzer Prize-winning green journalism, but you can unwrap 40 bonus minutes of our voices, as we meander through some serious eco q's and some not-so-serious silly inquiries, which you sent in this week!

PLUS... The long-awaited return of Lloyd's Christmas singing.

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44: Beavers, with Sophie Pavelle and Eva Bishop from Beaver Trust Dec 16, 2020

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Pandemic, what? 2020 has been the year of THE BEAVER. One native rodent with the natural ability to engineer wetland landscapes that support an incredible diversity of life, and which can even help us combat the effects of climate change. What's not to love?

Sophie Pavelle and Eva Bishop from Beaver Trust join Emma to chat all things Castor fiber from orange teeth and second lips to beaver boobs and rewilding parachute attempts.

For more from Beaver Trust, head to https://beavertrust.org/

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43: British nature with Lucy Hodson Dec 02, 2020

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Why are fungi cool? What happens to British birds in the winter? We sit down for a natter with Nature Nerd Lucy Hodson (AKA Lucy Lapwing) to find out what it is about wildlife in Britain that has driven her life-long love affair with nature.

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And for more from Lucy, find her on Instagram and Twitter.

42: Sea ice: Why does it matter? Nov 18, 2020

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It's been a record-breaking (-ly bad) year for sea ice. So why does that matter? The changing of the seasons is pretty reliable … or it used to be. Arctic ice loss has been in the news constantly for at least a decade, but just last month it was confirmed that 2020 is the second-worst year on record for it. If you thought it was problem that didn’t affect you, well, you’d be wrong about that. So, why is this happening? Why this year in particular? And what about the antarctic?

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A few of the discussed sources:

https://theconversation.com/wheres-the-sea-ice-3-reasons-the-arctic-freeze-is-unseasonably-late-and-why-it-matters-148918

https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2660/Arctic-melt-season-puts-focus-on-sea-ice-forecasts

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259556-rivers-of-air-in-the-sky-are-melting-huge-patches-of-antarctic-sea-ice/

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-12/

41: HS2: Low-carbon travel or environmental disaster? Nov 04, 2020

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It’s fair to say that, since its announcement nearly a decade ago, the ‘High Speed Rail 2’ project has been in the UK news A LOT. With construction starting on the massive infrastructure project recently, we took a look at the likely environmental impact of this highly-contentious undertaking. Could projects like this ever have a positive environmental swing? Does simply uprooting and moving a whole forest actually work?

A few of the discussed sources:

https://www.hs2.org.uk/what-is-hs2/

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/hs2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54628840

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40: Lizzie Daly on animal-human interactions and wildlife presenting Oct 21, 2020

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What happens when you take a scorpion into a hotel? What’s the best material to make a puffin from? This week we sat down with Wildlife Television presenter and Biologist Lizzie Daly to discuss human-wildlife ‘conflict’ (or more optimistically, coexistence) and her own research with Kenyan elephants, as well as explore her frankly ridiculously cool career. This is a fun one - plug in, get a cup of tea and laugh along with us.

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Find Lizzie on Instagram: @lizziedalywild or Facebook: @LizzieDalyWildlife

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A good source on human-wildlife conflict/co-existence: https://bit.ly/2T9zxC9

Our Gorongosa film: https://gorongosa.org/our-gorongosa-film/

Save Water Save Money - Free tools to reduce your water use in the home, delivered to your door: https://www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk/

Wild deodorant: https://www.wearewild.com/

39: Rivers (re-visited!) with Dr. Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley Oct 07, 2020

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After our rivers episode earlier in the season, we realised that we’d barely gone beneath the surface of this vast topic. Enter: Stephanie, a specialist in aquatic ecosystems and research fellow at Swansea University! Not only do we unpick some key environmental issues in the form of freshwater obstructions (culverts are, perhaps, the unsung villain of our riverine world), but also look at Steph’s work exploring how people and communities the world over interact with, and think of, freshwater. Ponds and poetry, billabongs and balladry, we’ve got it all!

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Find the AWESOME Stephanie on Twitter: @ConnectedWaters

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38: Badgers! (and the ‘C‘ word: culling) Sep 23, 2020

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We're talking about the UK's most iconic monochrome, stripy nocturnal creatures and the threats they face: roads, pesticides, and the 'C' word - culling.

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Episode links:

https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/07/badger-cull-extended-england-60000-animals-in-line-of-fire

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/saving-species/badgers

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavirus-lockdown-badger-cull_uk_5f64dc51c5b6de79b6742fbf?

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/badger-cull-licences-bovine-tb-natural-england-derbyshire-george-eustice-b405048.html