This episode explores new research which has found how satellites can be used to map the effect that ship emissions have on cloud formation.
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Read ‘Oh Great O North Cloud’ by Allen Grossman here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that an ancient extinction event on Earth may have been caused (in part) by mercury poisoning from volcanic eruptions.
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Read ‘Quicksilver’ by Julie Suk here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that while much of the Earth's land surface remains relatively wild, it is threatened by anthropogenic fragmentation.
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Read ‘Human Habitat’ by Alison Hawthorne Deming here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found a strong correlation between the rate of deforestation and the transmission of malaria in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
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Read ‘Rainforest’ by Teresa Mei Chuc here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that there has been a clear degradation in mountain permafrost across the central Alps over the past two decades, likely brought about by climate change.
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Read ‘Twilight in the Alps’ by Henry van Dyke Jr here.
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This episode explores new research which has found that heat stress from climate change has caused a dramatic decline across bird populations in the Mojave Desert in North America.
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Read ‘The Death of the Bird’ by A. D. Hope here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide causes marsh plants to increase in bulk but decrease in size, resulting in dense networks of underground roots that can potentially protect these marshes against rising sea levels.
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Read ‘Marshlands’ by Emily Pauline Johnson here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that spider silk and wood fibres can be combines to create materials that are incredibly strong and tough, and which are also biodegradable and do not do not damage the environment in the same way as plastics and many other synthetics.
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Read ‘Guide to Avian Architecture’ by Megan Synder-Camp here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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This episode explores new research which has found that salamanders may be harnessing their regenerative capabilities to protect themselves against the negative effects of anthropogenic climate change.
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Read ‘Salamanders’ by Sandra McPherson here.
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This episode explores new research which has found that global warming is causing snowfall to decline in the Northwest United States, which will have a dramatic impact on the freshwater supply across the region.
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Read ‘A Patch of Old Snow’ by Robert Frost here.
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