Geology
Science In Action. Our Geological Junk. Audio, 27 minutes
Changing the planet with our waste.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Science In Action. Sulawesi – Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcanic Eruption. Audio, 27 minutes
The geology that makes Sulawesi a natural disaster hotspot
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Science In Action. The True Cost of the Brazil Museum Fire. Audio, 27 minutes
The cost to science of the fire which destroyed Brazil’s National Museum
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Science In Action. Weed-killer – ‘Roundup’, Science and the Law. Audio, 27 minutes
US jury rules on herbicide, Roundup’s link to cancer, does the science agree?
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Science Stories. Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting. Audio, 28 minutes
Naomi Alderman tells the story of Mary Anning, who discovered many important fossils.
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The Boring Talks. #13 - Basalt. Audio, 14 minutes
Is basalt really the most boring type of rock in the world?
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- Posted22 January 2018
Discovery. The Day the Earth Moved. Audio, 27 minutes
How scientists learned the earth’s crust is made up of shifting plates.
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Science In Action. Hidden Secrets of the Great Pyramid. Audio, 27 minutes
Particle physics has helped reveal a tantalising void in the Great Pyramid in Giza
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Keep Digging. Audio, 28 minutes
Mary-Ann Ochota asks why we can send probes to deep space, but not to the earth's mantle.
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Science In Action. Volcanic Hydrogen Redefines the Habitable Zone. Audio, 27 minutes
Hydrogen from volcanoes may mean previously dismissed exoplanets are habitable
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Brainwaves. Series 4, Professor Iain Stewart. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin meets Iain Stewart, professor of geoscience communication.
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The Life Scientific. Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man. Audio, 28 minutes
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Anthropocene, the Age of Man.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Chalk. Audio, 15 minutes
Alyson Hallett on being drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Fire Rocks. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Coal Mines. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Millstone. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Quartz. Audio, 15 minutes
Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.
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The Life Scientific. Hazel Rymer on volcanoes. Audio, 28 minutes
Hazel Rymer talks volcanoes with Jim Al-Khalili.
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Open Country. Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits the nodding donkeys of the Gainsborough Trough.
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Open Country. The Naze in Essex. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark explores the hidden landscape of the Naze in Essex.
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