Showing posts with label Our Broken Planet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Broken Planet. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

#631: Our Broken Planet - now up to ten episodes

The Natural History Museum's Our Broken Planet Podcast has been going for over 2 years now. I posted about it when it had just started, so it's worth revisiting to see what topics have been covered in that time.


The most recent episode looked at what action had been taken about climate change.

Surveys show that most of us are really worried about climate change and we want something to be done. But what?

This series, we’ve explored many ways in which nature is changing in response to human activity and the dangers posed to people and planet as a result. In this final episode, Tori and Khalil explore how people are taking action in the face of the planetary emergency. Along the way, you’ll find out:When has activism been effective?
How do scientists feel about climate change?
One thing everyone can do to start making a positive change

Contributors:Dr Erica McAllister - Senior Curator for Diptera and Siphonaptera (flies and fleas) at the Natural History Museum
Professor Tristram Wyatt - Senior research fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research
Alessandra Korap Munduruku - Member of the Munduruku group of Sawré Muybu, an indigenous territory in northern Brazil, and President of the Pariri Indigenous Association
Dr Rim Saab - Social psychology lecturer at the University of Sussex, who specialises in the psychology of political action

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

#47: Natural History Podcasts #2 - Our Broken Planet

A new Natural History Museum Podcast has been made available. There are several episodes currently available.


They might be of interest to those preparing entries for the RGS Young Geographer of the Year competition with its theme of 'A Blueprint for the Future'.

Tune in for stories from the forefront of the planetary emergency. Along the way, we’ll unpack how we got here and discover solutions from science and nature that could help tackle the problems facing our world. Each episode explores one of the challenges facing nature globally, from wildfires to plastic pollution, zoonotic diseases to farming and beyond.

Join your hosts Tori Herridge and Khalil Thirlaway as they transport you around the globe to the front lines of the climate change and biodiversity crises.

Details:

Episode 1
A rising tide: Melting ice sheets and sea level rises

With:

  • Selina Leem - Climate activist from the Marshall Islands
  • Laura Tenenbaum - Climate expert and former NASA scientist
  • Dr Mark Spalding - Senior marine scientist with the Nature Conservancy and mangrove expert
  • Dr Bethan Davies - Glaciologist from Newcastle University
  • Iris Moeller - Professor of Geography at the University of Dublin

Episode 2
Fire: Life in the New Pyrocene

With:

  • Dr Sandy Knapp - Botanist and merit researcher of plants at the Natural History Museum
  • Professor David Bowman - Fire researcher, University of Tasmania
  • Nerilie Abram - Paleoclimatologist from the Australian National University
  • Elizabeth Azzuz - Traditional fire practitioner from California

There are also links to related content, such as an illustrated guide to what we can do to save the planet.

#677: WWT Welney Reserve and Peter Scott

Another location which will feature in the list of possible places to visit for those schools that choose to offer the new specification and...