Here’s some podcasts we’ve found interesting- let us know if there are any you would recommend! Episode descriptions are taken direct from the websites.

23rd June 2021 – Four Thought – Climate Consultations BBC Sounds

Dr. Tamsin Ellis is a GP who looks for ways to improve her patients’ health and the environment. Welcoming us into her consulting room to meet her patients, Tamsin describes her journey to climate activism, and why she’s convinced that looking for ‘double wins’ is the way forward. From giving a lecture about the environment to a sea of faces all sipping coffee from plastic cups, to the challenges of winning over already hard-pressed colleagues, in this witty talk Tamsin describes the realities of climate activism on the NHS frontline. As she prescribes health interventions with positive side-effects for the planet, she offers a new way to talk about climate change.

31st July 2021 – More or Less Podcast. Breaking Climate Records

June saw a brutal heatwave shatter a number of all-time temperature records in Canada and the Northwest of the USA. But when can we attribute new records to man-made climate change, rather than natural variation? Peter Stott, an expert in climate attribution at the UK’s Met Office, explains how climate change has dramatically increased the probability of seeing such extremes.

5th August 2021 – BBC Inside Science. Bees and multiple pesticide exposure

Victoria Gill looks at the latest stories from the world of science. In this week’s episode: the threat to bees from multiple pesticide exposure

9th August 2021 – Reasons to be cheerful. Countdown to the Climate Summit Episodes 1-4

For the next few weeks we’re treating you to some special episodes about COP 26, the crucial climate summit taking place in Glasgow this November. First, we’re talking through the basics and asking how on earth we got to where we are today. Author Alice Bell gives a whistle-stop history of our understanding of the climate crisis and the political response to it. Then two COP veterans, climate lawyer Farhana Yamin and former negotiator Pete Betts, talk us through their reflections on previous summits.

12th August 2021 – BBC Inside Science. IPCC Report – Extreme weather events

Victoria Gill talks to climate scientist Friedericke Otto about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new landmark report. The report this week states that the evidence for humanity’s role in changing global change is now unequivocal. Dr Otto was a lead author on the chapter on extreme weather events and explains how human influence can be attributed to the increasing incidence and intensity of heat waves and heavy rainfall events.

23rd August 2021 – BBC World Service The Climate Question.

Can we be “nudged” to act on climate change? Another chance to listen to an episode that asks whether we can change our ways. Drastic change is needed to limit the increase in global temperature caused by climate change. More than two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide result from how we live our lives. But the behaviours that drive these emissions tend to be deeply habitual and hard to shift – the way we heat our homes, what we eat and how we travel to work. And our behavioural good intentions all too often fail to translate into action. So our climate question this week is how we can be nudged, or even shoved, to change?

30th August 2021 – BBC Radio 4 39 Ways to Save the Planet. Buy less stuff

We’re using up our resources. How much carbon can we save by designing better, keeping things in use and using what we have more intensively. Tom Heap hears how change is coming.

31st August 2021 – The Guardian Science Weekly: Can we really solve the climate crisis by planting trees? (part 1)

In an era of divisions over the climate breakdown, tree planting seems to bring everyone together. But are there situations where tree planting can cause more harm than good? And how much can it help us counteract global heating? Patrick Greenfield leads you through the science and controversy behind the decisions we’re making and how those decisions could shape our future environment. He and Phoebe Weston from The age of extinction are back with two new episodes

31st August 2021 – BBC World Service. Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives

Two sources of greenhouse gas could be lurking in your kitchen: rice and fridges. We meet a biologist breeding climate-friendly rice, and a team of detectives whose job is to stop fearsomely potent fridge gases escaping into the atmosphere.

2nd September 2021 – The Guardian Science Weekly: Can we really solve the climate crisis by planting trees? (part 2)

Getting trees into the ground isn’t simple. Reforestation often involves trade-offs and challenges. Phoebe Weston checks in on two projects where people are planting trees, and one where it’s not humans doing the planting at all. She and Patrick Greenfield from The age of extinction are back with two new episodes

6th September 2021 – Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast Born to Rewild

We’re celebrating the start of September with an episode on rewilding — the idea of restoring eco-systems so nature can take care of itself. Alastair Driver from Rewilding Britain talks us through what it is and how to make it happen. Steve Micklewright explains how Trees for Life is rewilding parts of the Scottish Highlands. And Jan Stannard from Heal Rewilding talks about their plans to make rewilding accessible to everyone.