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Hi-tech Physics, Toxic Soils and Mussel Shells. A science audio resource
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Hi-tech Physics, Toxic Soils and Mussel Shells

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) was recorded at the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, England and discusses how two researchers are using hi-tech physics to study different aspects of the environment. The Diamond synchrotron is like a giant, silver doughnut,…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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WWII Bunkers, Thugs and Aliens, and Calving Glaciers. A science audio resource
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WWII Bunkers, Thugs and Aliens, and Calving Glaciers

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at why weathermen are using a converted World War II bunker to monitor clouds; how thug species such as bramble, nettle and bracken can be just as damaging to woodlands as alien plants; and why scientists are going to Greenland…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Noisy Coral Reefs, Melting Ice Sheets and Whale Speak. A science audio resource
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Noisy Coral Reefs, Melting Ice Sheets and Whale Speak

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the soundless place often imagined. From chirping, gurgling and snapping sounds from busy coral reefs to clicking sperm whales, scientists are finding that all…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Bumblebee Declines, Microbes, and Amazing Birds. A science audio resource
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Bumblebee Declines, Microbes, and Amazing Birds

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at what UK farmers are doing to protect the country's vanishing bumblebees, butterflies and other pollinating insects; how scientists are trying to figure out how many types of microbes there are on our planet and why…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Romans Recycling, Dinosaur Colour, Gravity Mission. A science audio resource
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Romans Recycling, Dinosaur Colour, Gravity Mission

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at how the Romans recycled glass, dinosaur colour, and what Europe's gravity mission tells us about ocean currents. The height of the world's oceans can vary by as much as 200 metres. These huge differences…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Fish Poo, Dead Whales, and the Japan Earthquake. A science audio resource
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Fish Poo, Dead Whales, and the Japan Earthquake

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at how the famous White Cliffs of Dover could be made of fish poo (at least partially), why one researcher is so interested in dead whales, and why the Japan earthquake was so powerful and devastating. Scientists have…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Science From a Plane, and Forecasting Space Storms. A science audio resource
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Science From a Plane, and Forecasting Space Storms

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at how a specially-designed twin turboprop research plane is helping scientists in a huge range of subjects from archaeology to ecology, and why a violent space storm could spell trouble for communications systems across…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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The Earth's Magnetic Field, Snow, and Chernobyl. A science audio resource
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The Earth's Magnetic Field, Snow, and Chernobyl

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at how scientists plan to measure the Earth's magnetic field from space, why one researcher is in the frozen town of Churchill in northern Canada, and how the Chernobyl disaster still affects Northern Ireland 25 years…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Tracking Insects With a Big Dish, Australian Floods. A science audio resource
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Tracking Insects With a Big Dish, Australian Floods

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at how tracking insects can help scientists forecast summer storms and floods, and the role one of Europe's key satellite missions played in the recent floods in Queensland, Australia. The huge Chilbolton Facility…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Flood Defences, the Southern Ocean, and Whiter Clouds. A science audio resource
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Flood Defences, the Southern Ocean, and Whiter Clouds

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at why removing some man-made coastal flood defences might not be such a bad idea, what it is like studying gas exchange in the wilds of the Southern Ocean, and – in what could be the first case of 'natural'…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Rip Currents in Cornwall, and Carbon Capture and Storage. A science, how science works audio resource
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Rip Currents in Cornwall, and Carbon Capture and Storage

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) looks at why understanding rip currents at Perranporth in north Cornwall could help save lives; and how exactly does carbon capture and storage (CCS) work and how can scientists be sure that CO2 will be stored forever? There…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, Snow, and Radiocarbon Dating. A science audio resource
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Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, Snow, and Radiocarbon Dating

This podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection looks at the cunning tricks the cuckoo uses to get another bird to do the parenting, why researchers are studying snow in Sweden, and discovers an improved radiocarbon dating technique. The cuckoo is a well-known cheat: it…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Satellites and Acid Oceans. A science audio resource
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Satellites and Acid Oceans

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), reporters find out how satellites have revolutionised our understanding of climate change. They provide a completely different perspective on how planet Earth works, which was impossible before the satellite revolution…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Barrel Jellyfish and Supercooled Water. A science audio resource
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Barrel Jellyfish and Supercooled Water

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Scientists know surprisingly little about jellyfish.Which is why British and Irish researchers are in the middle of a project to tag them to find out things like where they go during the winter, how long they live and why they…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Lake Windermere and Walking with Dinosaurs. A science audio resource
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Lake Windermere and Walking with Dinosaurs

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). British Geological Survey scientists have completed the first full geological survey of Lake Windermere in the English Lake District since the Royal Navy surveyed it in the 1930s. Among other things, the survey will help researchers…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Vanishing Fish Stocks. A science audio resource
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Vanishing Fish Stocks

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The Food Standards Agency advises everyone to eat at least two portions of fish a week, one of which should be oily, because it is good for us. Unfortunately our appetite for fish and other seafood has decimated a number of what…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Highlights From 2009. A science audio resource
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Highlights From 2009

This podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), looks back at some of the highlights from 12 months of Planet Earth podcasts, and looks ahead to some of the big stories expected in 2010. Marine biologist Ben Wilson from the Scottish Association for Marine Science explains…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Gold, Storms and Dinosaurs. A science audio resource
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Gold, Storms and Dinosaurs

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Richard Hollingham looks at where and how to find gold while Sue Nelson finds out why weather forecasters still struggle to predict sudden, violent summer storms. Other reports discover why scientists may be a step closer…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Harassed Guppies and Promiscuous Fruit Flies. A science audio resource
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Harassed Guppies and Promiscuous Fruit Flies

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), reporters find out what sexual conflict means for female guppies, how female promiscuity may be a good thing and why female mongooses all give birth at the same time. In an extreme example of sexual harassment, researchers…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Geoengineering, Wind and Sea Squirts. A science audio resource
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Geoengineering, Wind and Sea Squirts

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), two researchers talk about the technological solutions some scientists say might have to be used to tackle climate change. With average temperatures expected to rise by 2°C this century, and efforts to cut greenhouse…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Energy Crops, CryoSat-2 and Bird Bling. A science audio resource
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Energy Crops, CryoSat-2 and Bird Bling

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Willow, palm, miscanthus and other energy crops are being touted as a possible solution to Britain's growing energy security problems. There are suggestions that they could help replace fossil fuels, plugging Britain's…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Ice Clouds and Viper Venom. A science audio resource
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Ice Clouds and Viper Venom

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Sue Nelson visits the ice cloud chamber in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. Scientists know that fluffy stratocumulus clouds act like a blanket on the Earth - they stop warm air escaping, but…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Case Studies from 2011: Healthcare Technologies. A technology information sheet resource
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Case Studies from 2011: Healthcare Technologies

A set of case studies which highlight some of the research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2011. MyCare – the ‘card’ that could save your life It looks like a credit card…it slips into a wallet or purse…but it could mean the difference between life and…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Splitting Earth, Space Weather and Robotic Dolphins. A science audio resource
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Splitting Earth, Space Weather and Robotic Dolphins

In this podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Sue Nelson hears about the birth of an ocean in the Afar depression in the Horn of Africa. The continental crust is being ripped apart at a phenomenal rate – one metre every year over the last five years. In the not…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Arctic Terns, Satellites and Conker Trees. A science audio resource
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Arctic Terns, Satellites and Conker Trees

A podcast from the Planet Earth Online collection and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). As the map of Earth's gravity – as revealed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) sleek GOCE satellite – comes into sharper focus, Richard Hollingham speaks to a researcher who tells us what early results from…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Rockpools and Ocean Acidification. A science audio resource
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Rockpools and Ocean Acidification

In this podcast from Planet Earth Online and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Sue Nelson visits the Anglesey coast of north Wales to learn what these mini marine laboratories can tell us about the value of biodiversity. The effects of climate change range from rising temperatures and higher sea levels to extreme…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Kew Gardens, Antarctica and Ancient Trees. A science audio resource
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Kew Gardens, Antarctica and Ancient Trees

In this podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection, Sue Nelson reports from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where she finds out that some plants like the Snake's Head Fritillary have enormous amounts of DNA in their genomes. These plants struggle in extreme environments,…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Essex Coral Reefs, Malaria in the UK, and Antarctica. A science audio resource
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Essex Coral Reefs, Malaria in the UK, and Antarctica

In this podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection, Sue Nelson visits an indoor coral reef at the brand new Coral Reef Research Unit at the University of Essex. Researchers are using the reef to look at the effects of ocean acidification on coral in a unique experiment.…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Red Squirrels and a Tropical Antarctica. A science audio resource
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Red Squirrels and a Tropical Antarctica

A podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection. Red squirrels used to be the most common squirrel in Britain. But since the grey squirrel was introduced from the USA as an illegal immigrant in the late 1800s, their numbers have nose-dived. This is partly because the greys out-compete…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Arctic Expedition Special. A science, earth science audio resource
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Arctic Expedition Special

In this podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection, Richard Hollingham reports from an unusual and somewhat cold location - onboard the British Antarctic Survey's RRS James Clark Ross which was stuck in the ice for two weeks 1000 kilometres from the North Pole. He talks…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Aliens and Underwater Volcanoes. A science, earth science audio resource
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Aliens and Underwater Volcanoes

This podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection looks at invasive species of plants and animals. Many of them are well-known. Grey squirrels, harlequin ladybirds, buddleia, Japanese knotweed - the list goes on. Some of these aliens, or invasive species to give them their…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Searching for Life in Lake Ellsworth, and Dead Whales. A science, biology audio resource
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Searching for Life in Lake Ellsworth, and Dead Whales

This podcast from the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Planet Earth Online collection looks at why scientists are planning on drilling three kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet in one of the most ambitious exploration projects ever undertaken; and how worms that feed on dead whale bones at the bottom of the…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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