Episode 9: Our Elephant Graveyard

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. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Elephant Graveyard’ by Roy Marz here.    --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: [email protected]   Twitter: @samillingworth