71: Botanist Leif Bersweden on Plants & Climate Change

84: Air Pollution (Psst. We’re on a break!): We are going to take a little break from podcasting for a while, so in a bid to stop our great podcast algorithm overlords from burying For What It’s Earth, we're going to share a few oldies but goodies with you over the coming weeks. Episodes that we en... by For What It's Earth

41 min listen

83: Forget Me Not, with author Sophie Pavelle: Sophie's debut book, Forget Me Not, has landed on our shelves, chronicling her low-carbon journeys around the UK searching for 10 charismatic species that are being impacted by climate change. She joins Emma for a chat about her adventures, about the rol... by For What It's Earth

54 min listen

82. Sam Gandy on Nature Connection, plus Psychedelics and Beavers?: Nature connectedness; what is it, why is it important, and can we boost it? Researcher Sam Gandy joins us in this episode to explore the concept of nature connectedness, which is s key predictor of us taking actions that are good for the planet and is al... by For What It's Earth

47 min listen

81: BOGS! (Again) Celebrating natural carbon sequestration for #WorldBogDay: You might be wondering why we’ve popped an episode in your feed on a Sunday instead of a Wednesday, so I’m here to clear that up. Today is actually world bog day, a day in which we all celebrate the awesomeness of this underrated habitat, which is fantas... by For What It's Earth

35 min listen

80: Eco-Anxiety. What is it, and how can we deal with it?: Many of us feel an existential sense of doom and dread when we think about the state of the environment. (Record-smashing temperatures of 40oC in the UK this week, anyone?) It can wreak havoc with our mental health, and be hard to deal with. In fact, fee... by For What It's Earth

47 min listen

79: Antarctica. Can we protect it, or survive without it? With Ryan Dalton: The White Continent (and the southern seas around it) is an incredibly important place for wildlife, for the regulation of global ocean currents, and for reflecting a huge amount of the sun's heat back out of our atmosphere (known as the Albedo effect). ... by For What It's Earth

48 min listen

78: Sports! Can we make them more sustainable?: From football and F1, to deciding which trainers to run your next half-marathon in, we're attempting something of an episode heptathlon this week as we explore whether both our big sporting events and our personal sporting ventures can be made more plane... by For What It's Earth

53 min listen

77: Save the Seagrass, Save Ourselves?: Take a dive with us into one of the most exciting marine habitats on the planet - and it's often found just a few splashes away from the coast. Seagrass is thought to capture carbon 35 TIMES faster than tropical rainforests, yet it covers less than 1% of... by For What It's Earth

43 min listen

76: Concrete: Cutting Construction’s Carbon Footprint with Adam Gittins: Oh, it's a sexy subject and a half this episode. Concrete is one of the most widely-used building materials in the world, so we're exploring its environmental impact with Adam Gittins from Cemfree. The manufacture of traditional cement, a key component o... by For What It's Earth

34 min listen

75: Bats! Why Bats Are Important And How To Save Them: Far more than mysterious nighttime creatures of folklore, we dig into why macro bats and micro bats (like this brown long-eared bat here) are fascinating AND important, and what can be done to stop the loss of them from our countryside in the UK. Get i... by For What It's Earth

42 min listen

74: Saving Fish and Top Pond Tips, With Wildlife Cameraman Jack Perks: This week Emma takes a dive into something she knows very little about; fish in UK rivers, the threats they're under and the fascinating projects working to restore their populations. Joining her to head upstream is wildlife cameraman, author, and podcas... by For What It's Earth

55 min listen

73: Nina Constable on Fish Passes, Filmmaking and Families: Watch Nina's latest film, Unlocking The Severn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsePWhmkeK0 Listen to Beaver Trust's Podcast, The Lodge Cast: https://bit.ly/LodgeCast Get in touch: Enjoyed the episode? Got an idea for another topic? Just want to say H... by For What It's Earth

48 min listen

72: Steve Simpson on Coral Reefs, Global Change, Eco Grief and Hope: “The future is still up for grabs.” In this episode, Emma is joined by Professor Steve Simpson, marine biologist, lecturer and science communicator, to take a dive into the issues that our oceans are facing. We explore the effects of noise pollution on o... by For What It's Earth

49 min listen

70: Rewilding and Reptiles, with Harvey Tweats: We’re digging in to the state of nature in the UK and how the concept of rewilding - restoring land to allow nature to recover and for biodiversity to flourish - could be the key to combating the climate and ecological crisis. In the hot seat this week a... by For What It's Earth

49 min listen

69: Conservation in Africa and life in the bush, with Rosie Miles: ? ✨ Conservation in Africa! ? ? In the first episode of 2022, Emma travels south (virtually) to find out what it's really like to live in the African bush and work as a conservationist protecting and restoring areas of land in protected national parks... by For What It's Earth

51 min listen

68: Birds of Prey! With Tom Morath from Hawk Conservancy Trust: Why are the predators of the sky one of the coolest parts of our ecosystem? How are they being impacted by climate change, habitat loss, bird flu, and persecution? And just what can we, and conservation organisations do to help? To chat all things 'bird ... by For What It's Earth

49 min listen

67: Ho, ho, how to have a sustainable Christmas! (Again): Two years ago, in a pre-pandemic world (remember that?) we sat in the same room to record a Christmas episode and explored ways that we could all make the upcoming festive season a better one for the environment. Instead of doing another episode on the s... by For What It's Earth

40 min listen

66: Australia on fire: BURNING with Emmy and Oscar Award-Winning Filmmaker Eva Orner: What was the role of climate change in the intense ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia in 2019/20, and what can Australia, do to change the increasingly-unstable direction that we’re currently heading in? As her award-winning climate change documentar... by For What It's Earth

45 min listen

65: Cambo: Oil, Gas and Cheesy Bottom Sponges: What's up with the proposed new oil and gas field exploration off the coast of Scotland? Here's our hot take. Write to your MP: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-stop-cambo Friends of the Earth letter to parliament: https://act.friendso... by For What It's Earth

41 min listen

64: Bobbing for Truth: Halloween‘s Environmental Footprint: PUMPKINS! Costumes! Party decorations! Trick or treat snacks! One of the scariest things about All Hallow's Eve is how wasteful the haunting holiday is, so we're diving into some of the classic components of Halloween to try and make them a bit kinder to... by For What It's Earth

41 min listen

63: Light pollution! What’s up with bulbs, brightness and blinding nature?: We’re turning our attention today to a kind of pollution that you can’t just pick up and pop in the bin. Light pollution can occur in many forms and can, of course, have a great many impacts on all that it touches - including our plant and animal chums. ... by For What It's Earth

39 min listen

62: Soil: Essential and… Sexy?: Join us this week to get down and dirty in the world of SOIL, dirtiness, earthworms, and carbon being burped from our land when we don’t look after it. Soil is important for food production, for water storage and filtering, for improving both our own and... by For What It's Earth

49 min listen

61: Eco(ish) Home Renovation & Redecoration: Helpful podcast about sprucing up your home while keeping the planet in mind, or therapy session for Emma and Lloyd in the middle of their own home renovation projects? You decide…. Some of the links that we mentioned: https://www.savewatersavemoney.co... by For What It's Earth

46 min listen

60: Slash Your Carbon Footprint with a Green Pension, with Make My Money Matter: Did you know that changing your pension provider is one of the biggest ways to slash your carbon footprint? With over £2.6 trillion in the UK tied up in pension funds, which are often invested by banks in industries like fossil fuels or tobacco, Kennet... by For What It's Earth

36 min listen

59: Space tourism: bad news for terra firma?: With billionaires blasting off to spend a few minutes on the edge of space, some of us who are destined never to leave earth are asking 'Hey, do you really need to do that? Can't we fix some of the problems down here first?' We're exploring the environme... by For What It's Earth

38 min listen

58: Cryptocurrency! Is Bitcoin burning the planet?: What does bitcoin have to do with climate change? Can anyone mine this made-up-seeming digital money? What even IS cryptocurrency? We're tackling the big questions today after lovey listener McKenna from Ohio sent us in a request to explore the environme... by For What It's Earth

42 min listen

57: Trees! With Joe Middleton from Woodland Trust: Can we plant our way out of trouble? What’s the best way to plant trees in our gardens or get involved in planting projects? And, more simply, why are trees COOL? Joe joins us to answer all our burning questions about trees, and about their role in the c... by For What It's Earth

53 min listen

56: Carbon Storage: What is it? How does it work? Can we sequester ourselves out of the climate crisis? All this and plenty more in this episode of For What It's Earth, including a celebration of wonderful listener 'one good thing for the planet' submissions and a bit of a ... by For What It's Earth

47 min listen

55: Renewables with Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy: How can we make sure that the 'green' energy we think we're buying isn't actually 'brown'? What the heck is a smart home? How can kids shape the future of green electricity in the UK? All this and a good deal more in this episode, where. we speak to the ... by For What It's Earth

43 min listen

54: Starting a Sustainable and Ethical Business, with James from Animall Tea: Have you had a neat eco-business idea recently? We're joined by James Thirwall from Animall Tea, a speciality tea company that source all their produce from organically and sustainable growers, and who spend their profits supporting conservation charitie... by For What It's Earth

46 min listen

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