For What It’s Earth
Environment, sustainability, and climate action podcast: We make big eco issues bite-sized, answer your green living questions, and explore the things that we can do to help save the planet. With Emma Brisdion and Sophie Pavelle.
Do you need more hopeful climate conversations in your week?
Each week, For What It’s Earth makes big green issues bite-sized and asks how each and every one of us can help protect our planet. Episodes alternate between in-depth but light-hearted interrogations into newsworthy environmental topics; and answering listener questions on all things sustainability.
Hosts - environmental campaigner, Emma, and climate author, Sophie - are your Wednesday companions who investigate the eco-curiosities, political concerns, lifestyle confusions and climate worries we all share.
Listen to the latest episodes:
Episodes
Mar 3, 2021
Mar 3, 2021
37 min
HOT DRINKS, WE'RE COMING FOR YA! That's right, we're putting the nation's favourite beverages under our environmental impact microscope in this week's episode, 'Tea and Coffee'. Pop the kettle on, grab your eco-milk of choice and settle down with a brew to listen.
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Feb 17, 2021
Feb 17, 2021
36 min
HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR US? This week we're looking at the problem of anthropogenic noise, or human sound pollution, and how it creates real predicaments for our wildlife both above and below the waves. A significant problem that can be solved as simply as it started, but is there enough drive from policy makers? Can animals adapt their mating calls and find food in a human-dominated soundscape? Can fish still find their way home? What does Emma do with all of her spare onions? Only one way to find out - tune into our frequency and give us a listen.
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55939344
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6529/eaba4658/tab-pdf
Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021
34 min
It's World Wetlands Day and we're chatting about BOGS; a habitat which the IUCN calls the largest natural terrestrial carbon store. So, why are these underrated habitats so gosh darn cool, and what makes them so good at storing carbon? Pop this episode in your ears to find out all about things bogs, peat, mires and permafrost.
Plus, we introduce a section called 'Listener Corner' where we discuss this paper https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full sent to us by one of our lovely listeners. Thanks, Jack!
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021
41 min
What's going on with the air that we breathe? Well, quite a lot, it seems. We're chatting today about the causes of air pollution, the problems it can cause for our own health and things like farming and our food supply, and we explore some of the possible solutions.
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Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
43 min
Science and Tech YouTuber & Content Creator Tom Carroll joins the podcast to chat about using TikTok to save the rainforest, why wind farms are moving further offshore and what’s so exciting about 3D printing coral reefs (and also to catch up with us, as we're also old uni chums).
Find Tom on YouTube and Instagram.
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Dec 23, 2020
Dec 23, 2020
39 min
This week, literally moments after the big covid-bans-holiday-fun announcement, we recorded a festive episode answering your questions! We can't promise you Pulitzer Prize-winning green journalism, but you can unwrap 40 bonus minutes of our voices, as we meander through some serious eco q's and some not-so-serious silly inquiries, which you sent in this week!
PLUS... The long-awaited return of Lloyd's Christmas singing.
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Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
44 min
Pandemic, what? 2020 has been the year of THE BEAVER. One native rodent with the natural ability to engineer wetland landscapes that support an incredible diversity of life, and which can even help us combat the effects of climate change. What's not to love?
Sophie Pavelle and Eva Bishop from Beaver Trust join Emma to chat all things Castor fiber from orange teeth and second lips to beaver boobs and rewilding parachute attempts.
For more from Beaver Trust, head to https://beavertrust.org/
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Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020
45 min
Why are fungi cool? What happens to British birds in the winter? We sit down for a natter with Nature Nerd Lucy Hodson (AKA Lucy Lapwing) to find out what it is about wildlife in Britain that has driven her life-long love affair with nature.
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And for more from Lucy, find her on Instagram and Twitter.
Nov 18, 2020
Nov 18, 2020
35 min
It's been a record-breaking (-ly bad) year for sea ice. So why does that matter? The changing of the seasons is pretty reliable … or it used to be. Arctic ice loss has been in the news constantly for at least a decade, but just last month it was confirmed that 2020 is the second-worst year on record for it. If you thought it was problem that didn’t affect you, well, you’d be wrong about that. So, why is this happening? Why this year in particular? And what about the antarctic?
Take a listen and find out. Oh, and if you were to leave us a little review on your platform of choice, that would be n-ice!
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A few of the discussed sources:
https://theconversation.com/wheres-the-sea-ice-3-reasons-the-arctic-freeze-is-unseasonably-late-and-why-it-matters-148918
https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2660/Arctic-melt-season-puts-focus-on-sea-ice-forecasts
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259556-rivers-of-air-in-the-sky-are-melting-huge-patches-of-antarctic-sea-ice/
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-12/
Nov 4, 2020
Nov 4, 2020
39 min
It’s fair to say that, since its announcement nearly a decade ago, the ‘High Speed Rail 2’ project has been in the UK news A LOT. With construction starting on the massive infrastructure project recently, we took a look at the likely environmental impact of this highly-contentious undertaking. Could projects like this ever have a positive environmental swing? Does simply uprooting and moving a whole forest actually work?
A few of the discussed sources:
https://www.hs2.org.uk/what-is-hs2/
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/hs2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54628840
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Oct 21, 2020
Oct 21, 2020
42 min
What happens when you take a scorpion into a hotel? What’s the best material to make a puffin from? This week we sat down with Wildlife Television presenter and Biologist Lizzie Daly to discuss human-wildlife ‘conflict’ (or more optimistically, coexistence) and her own research with Kenyan elephants, as well as explore her frankly ridiculously cool career. This is a fun one - plug in, get a cup of tea and laugh along with us.
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Find Lizzie on Instagram: @lizziedalywild or Facebook: @LizzieDalyWildlife
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A good source on human-wildlife conflict/co-existence: https://bit.ly/2T9zxC9
Our Gorongosa film: https://gorongosa.org/our-gorongosa-film/
Save Water Save Money - Free tools to reduce your water use in the home, delivered to your door: https://www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk/
Wild deodorant: https://www.wearewild.com/
Oct 7, 2020
Oct 7, 2020
41 min
After our rivers episode earlier in the season, we realised that we’d barely gone beneath the surface of this vast topic. Enter: Stephanie, a specialist in aquatic ecosystems and research fellow at Swansea University! Not only do we unpick some key environmental issues in the form of freshwater obstructions (culverts are, perhaps, the unsung villain of our riverine world), but also look at Steph’s work exploring how people and communities the world over interact with, and think of, freshwater. Ponds and poetry, billabongs and balladry, we’ve got it all!
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Find the AWESOME Stephanie on Twitter: @ConnectedWaters
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