Tree of Tenere

Megan Nollet and Colin Lowther talk about a favorite snack for people all around the world. https://spotlightenglish.com/food-drink/from-banh-ran-to-beignets-the-best-doughnuts-in-the-world/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at ...  Show more

Roger Basick and Gillian Woodward talk about the possibility of life on other planets. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/the-fermi-paradox/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-appleFacebook: htt ...  Show more

Trees have the remarkable ability to pass knowledge down to succeeding generations and to survive the ravages of climate change, if only we’d let them alone, according to the German forester Peter Wohlleben. In The Power of Trees (translated by Jane Billinghurst) he explains t ...

What’s a forest of ghaf trees called? Are ghaf leaves and pods edible? What do ghaf trees have to do with tree huggers? What might you find if you dig around ghaf trees? This episode is dedicated to the ghaf tree, the national tree of the UAE and a symbol of tolerance. This amazi ...  Show more

When you’re walking in the woods, you’re often surrounded by trees. But you probably don’t notice them much, and when you do spot some irregularity, like a strange bulge in the trunk of a tree, you likely don’t have any idea how it got there. But my guest says that these trees ...

There have been big promises about tree-planting numbers over the last few years - but is there much point in planting more trees, if we're not looking after the ones we've already got? The Woodland Trust estimates that only 7% of the UK's native woodlands are in good ecological ...  Show more