Plastic Pollution - with Steve Backshall and ...

" It's incredible really how much life just bursts with this aquatic life: amphibians, birds - because it's all connected” - Asa Butterfield Actor and advocate Asa Butterfield takes us to the edge of a babbling stream to share one of his favourite sounds in nature. In this bonus ...  عرض المزيد

“ I think the more we can educate young people to be out in parks, be out in the woods, keep them connected with the natural world, we need that because we're in such a crucial fight to keep what we have and if young people don't care about it, it will go.” - Asa Butterfield Acto ...  عرض المزيد

Plastics are everywhere -- they're in our favorite electronic devices, they package our food and insulate our homes. Today, the total mass of plastic is twice the total mass of all living organisms on the planet, and it's starting to change the processes that allow the Earth's ...

These days plastics contribute to 300 million metric tons of waste in the world. In the early 2000s, our plastic waste rose more in a single decade than it had in 40 years. But what if there was a way to intercept that plastic before it enters our oceans?Talib talked with Lonely ...  عرض المزيد

Plastic waste and pollution have become a global problem but is there any sign of a global solution? And how did we allow this to happen in the first place? Materials scientist and broadcaster, Professor Mark Miodownik, explores how we fell in love with plastic, why we've ended u ...  عرض المزيد

Happy Earth Day, Curious People! To celebrate, we’re inviting research scientist Marcus Eriksen from 5 Gyres to the pod. Marcus tells us about his 88 day journey from California to Hawaii sailing on a raft made from 15,000 plastic bottles to research microplastics in the ocean an ...  عرض المزيد