All Episodes

How plastic pollution may harm marine life

The evolution of the British peppered moth

Tidal energy, turtle mating habits

Our ancient ancestors, deep sea worms

Using Genetics to Save the Ash Tree

Avian pox in UK great tits, top conservation issues

Climate tipping points, basking sharks, primates

Planet Earth Podcast highlights from 2012

Citizen science projects, plants and greenhouse gases

Bat calls, weather balloons, telomeres and ageing

Solutions to urban flooding, peatland carbon storage

Unique plants in Bristol, contraceptives and fish

Man-made salt marshes, ground heat, storms

Future-proofing forests, noisy gannets, Antarctica

Forecasting solar storms, fish personalities

Early tetrapods, upland rivers, North Anatolian Fault

Bees and sex, acid rain's legacy, cold water corals

Early African dairy farming, seabird migrations

Brown water, bats and streetlights, plant methane

Urban heat, ancient cave art, bold birds

Bees, nanomaterials, and methane on Mars

Medical diagnostics, the value of nature

Cold water corals, meteorites, new greenhouse gases

Drought and record rainfall, indoor avalanches

Microscopic plants, using volcanic ash for dating

Fungal threats, hydrothermal vents, green buildings

Air pollution, dwarf elephants and water footprints.

Invasive signal crayfish, shags, night-shining clouds

River Thames pollution, Arctic freshwater bulge

Testing satellites on Earth, hedgerow wildlife

Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics

The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction

Parkour and orang-utans, risks from solar storms

The Thames Barrier, the colour of prehistoric birds

The Ozone Hole, Starlings in Fair Isle, Forest Fires

Treating snakebites, and European shags

Neanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey

The deep sea, ancient proteins, Arctic research

Spreading aliens, Arctic experience, and Antarctica

Engineering the climate to tackle climate change

Stonehenge, microscopic plants, and baboons

Where do all the salmon go, and making CO2 bricks

Searching for life in Lake Ellsworth

Rip Currents and Carbon Capture

WWII bunkers, thugs and aliens, and calving glaciers

Bumblebee declines, microbes, and amazing birds

Cuckoos at Wicken Fen, snow, and radiocarbon dating

Flood defences, the Southern Ocean, and whiter clouds

Science from a plane, and forecasting space storms

Volcanic ash and sediment time machines

The Earth's magnetic field, snow, and Chernobyl

Fish poo, dead whales, and the Japan earthquake

Carbon capture and storage, floods, CryoSat-2

Tracking insects with a Big Dish, Australian floods

Romans recycling, dinosaur colour, gravity mission

Noisy coral reefs, melting ice sheets and whale speak

Essex coral reefs, malaria in the UK, and Antarctica

An audio diary special edition

Red squirrels and a tropical Antarctica

Arctic Expedition Special

Palm oil plantations, charcoal, and a flea circus

Leeches, earthquakes and weird sea-life

Kew Gardens, Antarctica and ancient trees

Splitting Earth, space weather and robotic dolphins

Bowerbirds, a yellow sub and measuring CO2

Barrel jellyfish and supercooled water

The risks of following the herd and banded mongooses

Butterflies, buoys and the English Channel

Ice clouds and viper venom - Planet Earth Podcast - 10.10.15

Orangutans, green buildings and an Antarctic GP

Plastics in the oceans and tracking satellites

Lake Windermere and walking with dinosaurs

Rockpools and ocean acidification

Antarctica, wild geese and ash plumes

Hi-tech physics, toxic soils and mussel shells

Climate science, Vikings and other invasive species

Oil palm plantations and coral reefs

Energy crops, CryoSat-2 and bird bling - Planet Earth Podcast - 10.09.08

Geoengineering, wind and sea squirts - Planet Earth Podcast - 10.09.07

Teeth, spiders and epic migrations - Planet Earth Podcast - 10.09.06

Gold, storms and dinosaurs - Planet Earth Podcast - 10.09.03