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enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 10: Ice - the mega-chip holding Earth records!!!Ice sheets in the poles of our planet are more than just the natural environment for penguins, polars bears, foxes, narwhals and other species of the cold climates. This guest, Dr Bernhard Salcher (@SalcherBernhard on Twitter & https://sites.google.com/site/salcherbernhard/ for his personal site) explains what glaciations are, how often they appear and disappear and what happens in between glaciation periods. Apparently there are many accuracies in the animations of Ice Age. Flattened mountains? Yup, blame the ice. Heightened mountains? Yup, blame the ice. Nice lakes in the Northern hemisphere? Yup, blame the ice.
While w...2022-05-2430 minenviroNews podcastenviroNews ep.9: soil - the sieve, water - the sievedA wonderful episode with Dr Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay (find her on Twitter @cgl_119 for great environmental content!), a researcher at the University of Glasgow. Caroline takes us on a journey of understanding how the soil, the dirt under our feet is important for life, how it connects to water and how we are in the habit of displacing it usually for purposes of infrastructure. Not to say that infrastructure is not important. In fact Caroline gives us a number. It is 30 times cheaper to distribute water in an urban area that it is in a rural area (is it 30? check...2022-04-1032 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 8: the pineapple express, sponge cities & life through the water cycleProfessor Nils Moosdorf (@nilsmoosdorf on Twitter) tells us about parking lots, the winds from Hawaii, the connection between extreme droughts and extreme rains and so much more. How would you feel if your city council decided to cover open parking lots with pebbles over dirt? Would you mind provided pathways for people with disabilities were provided)? How would you feel about collecting rain water to use for flushing you toilet? Nils' advice is let's try to make the water that falls from the sky going upstream because once it ends up in the ocean, it takes the clouds and...2022-01-2326 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 7: water, water, water, water & some poop!Water: a source of life, we grow in it, we need it to survive, we stay clean or get dirty because of it. Latifah knows water and through her science she gives us a few examples of how water affects our lives that don't have to do with drinking only. She talks heating and cooling, water in streaks and dams and water bottles and in the middle of ancient ruins. Another episode to understand the function of this powerful and quiet element, without which we can do very little. Oh yes and there's pooh-relevance too, lest we forget. Find...2022-01-0828 minenviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 6: Tales from the two hemispheres (don't make a sphere)A teaser episode that winks for what follows in the next two episodes. Hearing leaders and activists giving speeches at COP26 is an interesting exercise. The worry of some is very clear, the swagger of others equally palpable. There are questions to be asked, there are comments to be analysed, there is impact to be thought of. I particularly enjoy that the youth could teach the seasoned generations a lesson or two on priorities. Despite the challenges of making this episode, I hope it is enjoyable and provides food for thought.
Links to the full speeches from t...2021-12-1235 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 5: the wind the sun the sea the earth & the magic of energyEnergy: what makes our world go round and round, what keeps our universe in constant motion. What is energy? Where does it come from? When and where do we use it? Dr Agota Mackute (@A_Mackute on twitter) explains where energy has come from historically and what options are best for our world today. There are amazing natural powers that aren't magic except in their constant reappearance out of thin air (literally) and the burning of our central star, the sun. Agota takes us through a journey of explaining how energy has transformed our lives and how it is...2021-12-0537 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 4: Sarah explains COP26 & its singificanceCOP26 was enough to move this extraordinary episode to be published out of schedule. Sarah (@sarahvgreenham on twitter), an environmental scientist and researcher of the London underground heat, explains the experience that is the Conferences of the Parties (COP) - the annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC - https://unfccc.int/).
Who can go to the COP? EVERYONE
Who speaks at the COP? Mostly political leaders, policy-makers, internationally known people of relevance and exposure (yes celebrities too) including activists, young entrepreneurs. Also industry representatives (hmm).
Sarah tells us about the p...2021-11-2128 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 3: timetravelling rocks talling tales on CO2Christoph is a whisperer of rocks. He understands their formations and he can analyse their data in the lab till the full story is revealed. Do rocks and mountains affect the atmosphere? Are they affected by it and the CO2 emissions? Do they impact life even when they are as inhospitable as the Himalayas? Yes, yes, and oh yeah! Apparently they can have a cooling down or heating up effect. They can also tell us stories of past times and reveal secrets about the history of the Earth. Granted we do not know exactly everything (who does?) but we...2021-11-1425 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 2: A coral in the sandJoining the podcast, marine biologist and researcher Susana Simancas explains how corals are like oases in the sea, ocean acidification is like adding lemon to your perfectly good water, causing coral reefs to suffer from the equivalent of arthritis (= brittle structure and collapse). For the sea lovers this is an episode like a fresh breath of clean air. For the minimalists and anti-consumerists, I can see an agreeing nod of the head, for those fighting plastic pollution, yes, acknowledgement. Susana shares her science and how her science is affected but our consumerist choices. She also explains how this is...2021-10-3127 min
enviroNews podcastenviroNews ep. 1: Wind change & weather changeWhat does the weather have to do with climate change?
Why do meteorologists care about recording weather conditions minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and so on?
Dr Georgios Papavasileiou from the National Observatory of Athens explains what weather sign may be signs of our times (or not!). Weather phenomena are interesting but weather anomalies are even more interesting and more likely to be showing the trends of climate change. Should we worry? Yes but more importantly we should be looking for ways to change the current predictions from the weather projection models to more favourable s...2021-10-2527 min
enviroNews podcastAn enviroNews podcast Hello & WelcomeHi there. We all hear about Climate Change and the environmental crisis. Scientists and researchers say they are worried. But what does that mean in our everyday life? Where do we see the climate change and the environmental crisis? Does it exist? I'm taking to a podcast series focusing on research and stories that explain in plain language what occurrences should have us wonder, ask for more info, take into consideration, how we can understand the climate, and what type of action we can take to ensure and environmentally safe future within our lifetime. #ThinkGobalActLocal
2021-09-2808 min