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30 October 2012
25 April 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - we take a closer look at tiny marine plants, which underpin the entire marine...
16 April 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how fungal infections could threaten our food security as well as the planet...
27 March 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears about new air-quality monitoring that could help...
14 March 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham finds out why the American signal crayfish is driving out...
05 March 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the River Thames in central London to find out why nitrate...
17 February 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson visits RAL Space at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire...
31 January 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham goes to the River Wandle in south-west London to find out...
17 January 2012
It's not often that science news goes viral, but when researchers dubbed a new species the 'Hoff Crab'...
09 January 2012
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: Sue Nelson goes to Birmingham to find out how the James Bond film Casino Royale...
12 December 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson goes to the Thames Barrier to find out how engineers use science to...
22 November 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Richard Hollingham talks to one of the scientists behind the discovery of the...
08 November 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - Sue Nelson visits the largest collection of venomous snakes in the UK to find...
02 November 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham meets scientists and archaeologists who are working to...
11 October 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how scientists find out about life in the oceans' deepest trenches; how...
28 September 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - how hikers and walkers could be unwittingly changing the landscape by spreading...
14 September 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: in a geoengineering special edition, we take a closer look at some of the...
23 August 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why scientists are working with the National Trust to restore the chalk...
12 August 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, how scientists are using fish scales to figure out why the UK salmon population...
26 July 2011
This week, why scientists are planning on drilling three kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet in one of the most...
12 July 2011
This week, why understanding rip currents at Perranporth in north Cornwall could help save lives; how exactly does...
07 July 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why weathermen are using a converted World War II bunker to monitor clouds; how...
17 June 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - What UK farmers are doing to protect the country's vanishing bumblebees,...
03 June 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - the cunning tricks the cuckoo uses to get another bird to do the parenting, why...
24 May 2011
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast, why removing some man-made coastal flood defences might not be such a...