Episodes
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Episode 12: Stellar Snow
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
This episode explores new research which has found, for the first time, traces of the iron-60 isotope in Antarctic snow, the origins of which have been shown to come from the explosions of distant stars during supernova events.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Black Stars’ by Primo Levi here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Aug 19, 2019
Episode 11: The Cost of Shale
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, accounting for about 20% of global emissions. Over the last decade there has been a significant increase in the amount of methane emitted into our atmosphere, and new research suggests that fracking is likely to be partly responsible for this increase. In this episode I explore this research and what it means for our environment.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Fracking, North Dakota’ by David Olsen here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Aug 12, 2019
Episode 10: Environmental Death
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Between 2002 and 2017, 1,558 people across 50 countries were killed for defending their environments and lands; this is more than double the number of United Kingdom and Australian armed service people killed on active duty in war zones over the same period. In this episode I explore some of the research which aims to understand where this is happening and how it can be stopped.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Extinction’ by Jackie Kay here.
Find out more about Global Witness here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Aug 05, 2019
Episode 9: Our Elephant Graveyard
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Trees and plants use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, removing it from the atmosphere. In this episode of the podcast I investigate how forest elephants help to make this process more efficient, and how their extinction will have negative effects on global warming.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Elephant Graveyard’ by Roy Marz here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth