Planet Earth

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why understanding where plankton congregates can help us protect basking sharks a... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how scientists plan to measure the Earth's magnetic field from space, why one res... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how carbon capture and storage works and why it's here to stay, the effect of flo... Read more

Red squirrels used to be the most common squirrel in Britain. But since the grey squirrel was introduced from the USA as... Read more

Scientists recently found plastics floating in some of the most remote and inaccessible seas in the world - just off the... Read more

In this podcast Richard Hollingham reports from an unusual and somewhat cold location - onboard the British Antarctic Su... Read more

Unless you've never seen the sea, you've probably seen a jellyfish. And even if you haven't seen one, you will almost ce... Read more

In this latest watery-themed Planet Earth Podcast, Richard Hollingham hears how the underwater world isn't the soundless... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how a virus brought to the UK by insects poses a worrying threat to the country's... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: how you can get involved in any one of the wealth of UK citizen science projects ... Read more

In this Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the Eden Project in Cornwall, southwest England and to the South Downs ... Read more

With efforts to improve energy efficiency focussed on green transport to sustainable power generation, growing your own ... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: a look at some of the highlights from 12 months of the Planet Earth Podcast, incl... Read more

Everyone loves a rockpool, and Sue Nelson nearly takes a dive into one in this week's podcast while finding out about th... Read more

In this Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson reports from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where she finds out that some plant... Read more

In this Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson hears about the birth of an ocean in the Afar depression in the Horn of Africa.... Read more

As the UK winter continues to bite, Sue Nelson tries to escape it all by going to visit a coral reef. Unfortunately for... Read more

This is a special edition of the Planet Earth podcast, featuring some of our favourite audio diaries from the past year.... Read more

This week, Richard Hollingham finds out that bowerbirds are not just brilliant at making elaborate bowers, they're also ... Read more

This week in the Planet Earth Podcast - we take a closer look at tiny marine plants, which underpin the entire marine fo... Read more