Emma Brisdion & Lloyd HopkinsScience, Nature
Emma Brisdion & Lloyd HopkinsScience, Nature
Emma Brisdion & Lloyd HopkinsScience, Nature
Emma Brisdion & Lloyd HopkinsScience, Nature

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Environment, climate change and sustainability podcast making big issues bite-sized. We explain the science and explore the things that we can do to make a difference. By Emma Brisdion and Lloyd Hopkins.

  • 84: Air Pollution (Psst. We’re on a break!)
    We are going to take a little break from podcasting for a while, so in a bid to stop our great podcast algorithm overlords from burying For What It’s Earth, we're going to share a few oldies but goodies with you over the coming weeks. Episodes that we en...
  • 83: Forget Me Not, with author Sophie Pavelle
    Sophie's debut book, Forget Me Not, has landed on our shelves, chronicling her low-carbon journeys around the UK searching for 10 charismatic species that are being impacted by climate change. She joins Emma for a chat about her adventures, about the rol...
  • 82. Sam Gandy on Nature Connection, plus Psychedelics and Beavers?
    Nature connectedness; what is it, why is it important, and can we boost it? Researcher Sam Gandy joins us in this episode to explore the concept of nature connectedness, which is s key predictor of us taking actions that are good for the planet and is al...
  • 81: BOGS! (Again) Celebrating natural carbon sequestration for #WorldBogDay
    You might be wondering why we’ve popped an episode in your feed on a Sunday instead of a Wednesday, so I’m here to clear that up. Today is actually world bog day, a day in which we all celebrate the awesomeness of this underrated habitat, which is fantas...
  • 80: Eco-Anxiety. What is it, and how can we deal with it?
    Many of us feel an existential sense of doom and dread when we think about the state of the environment. (Record-smashing temperatures of 40oC in the UK this week, anyone?) It can wreak havoc with our mental health, and be hard to deal with. In fact, fee...
  • 79: Antarctica. Can we protect it, or survive without it? With Ryan Dalton
    The White Continent (and the southern seas around it) is an incredibly important place for wildlife, for the regulation of global ocean currents, and for reflecting a huge amount of the sun's heat back out of our atmosphere (known as the Albedo effect). ...
  • 78: Sports! Can we make them more sustainable?
    From football and F1, to deciding which trainers to run your next half-marathon in, we're attempting something of an episode heptathlon this week as we explore whether both our big sporting events and our personal sporting ventures can be made more plane...
  • 77: Save the Seagrass, Save Ourselves?
    Take a dive with us into one of the most exciting marine habitats on the planet - and it's often found just a few splashes away from the coast. Seagrass is thought to capture carbon 35 TIMES faster than tropical rainforests, yet it covers less than 1% of...
  • 76: Concrete: Cutting Construction’s Carbon Footprint with Adam Gittins
    Oh, it's a sexy subject and a half this episode. Concrete is one of the most widely-used building materials in the world, so we're exploring its environmental impact with Adam Gittins from Cemfree. The manufacture of traditional cement, a key component o...
  • 75: Bats! Why Bats Are Important And How To Save Them
    Far more than mysterious nighttime creatures of folklore, we dig into why macro bats and micro bats (like this brown long-eared bat here) are fascinating AND important, and what can be done to stop the loss of them from our countryside in the UK. Get i...
  • 74: Saving Fish and Top Pond Tips, With Wildlife Cameraman Jack Perks
    This week Emma takes a dive into something she knows very little about; fish in UK rivers, the threats they're under and the fascinating projects working to restore their populations. Joining her to head upstream is wildlife cameraman, author, and podcas...
  • 73: Nina Constable on Fish Passes, Filmmaking and Families
    Watch Nina's latest film, Unlocking The Severn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsePWhmkeK0 Listen to Beaver Trust's Podcast, The Lodge Cast: https://bit.ly/LodgeCast Get in touch: Enjoyed the episode? Got an idea for another topic? Just want to say H...
  • 72: Steve Simpson on Coral Reefs, Global Change, Eco Grief and Hope
    “The future is still up for grabs.” In this episode, Emma is joined by Professor Steve Simpson, marine biologist, lecturer and science communicator, to take a dive into the issues that our oceans are facing. We explore the effects of noise pollution on o...
  • 71: Botanist Leif Bersweden on Plants & Climate Change
    How is climate change impacting plant communities? Are there any winners among the losers? Why are plants just as cool as (if not, cooler) than animals? And how does a broken car actually HELP when you're writing a book? Emma is joined this week by botan...
  • 70: Rewilding and Reptiles, with Harvey Tweats
    We’re digging in to the state of nature in the UK and how the concept of rewilding - restoring land to allow nature to recover and for biodiversity to flourish - could be the key to combating the climate and ecological crisis. In the hot seat this week a...
  • 69: Conservation in Africa and life in the bush, with Rosie Miles
    🎧 ✨ Conservation in Africa! 🐘 🐆 In the first episode of 2022, Emma travels south (virtually) to find out what it's really like to live in the African bush and work as a conservationist protecting and restoring areas of land in protected national parks...
  • 68: Birds of Prey! With Tom Morath from Hawk Conservancy Trust
    Why are the predators of the sky one of the coolest parts of our ecosystem? How are they being impacted by climate change, habitat loss, bird flu, and persecution? And just what can we, and conservation organisations do to help? To chat all things 'bird ...
  • 67: Ho, ho, how to have a sustainable Christmas! (Again)
    Two years ago, in a pre-pandemic world (remember that?) we sat in the same room to record a Christmas episode and explored ways that we could all make the upcoming festive season a better one for the environment. Instead of doing another episode on the s...
  • 66: Australia on fire: BURNING with Emmy and Oscar Award-Winning Filmmaker Eva Orner
    What was the role of climate change in the intense ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia in 2019/20, and what can Australia, do to change the increasingly-unstable direction that we’re currently heading in? As her award-winning climate change documentar...
  • 65: Cambo: Oil, Gas and Cheesy Bottom Sponges
    What's up with the proposed new oil and gas field exploration off the coast of Scotland? Here's our hot take. Write to your MP: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-mp-to-stop-cambo Friends of the Earth letter to parliament: https://act.friendso...