Interviews about Earth Science

Most of the water that we use comes from reservoirs. These artificial lakes are often created by damming a river then...

Eugene Cloete explains how the NEPAD water initiative aims to bring together scientists working in the field of water...

Richard Harding explains how the WATer and global CHange Network, WATCH, is setting about monitoring how water usage...

Professor Frank Fish explains how a sculpture of a humpback whale triggered a whole new design for wind turbines...

Meera Senthilingam explores how wind turbines can be designed to withstand the cold temperatures of Antarctica in order...

Pierre Rivard explains how inflatable wind trubines could help us harness the great winds we see at high altitudes...

James Jackson explains how satellites can look for changes in landscapes following earthquakes. Spotting patterns in...

Martin Wagner explains how his team have been looking into the release of oestrogen-like chemicals from in our mineral...

Meera Senthilingam gets her hands wet and dirty this week to see how the river Cam is kept clean...

We discover the geology behind the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti...

"The train standing at platform mgph is the phuy-hfgjy to mmughpyhmm..." We meet a sound simulation system...

Dr Matt Balme dicusses the changes that sculpt the surface of Mars...

The melting of the Greenland Ice Sheets is accelerating and Jonathan Bamber discusses the evidence...

This week in Science History saw the birth of Tetsuya Fujita, also known as Ted and ‘Mr Tornado’. Fujita dedicated his...

Ben Valsler speaks to Laura Soul about how her body responded to her trek up to Everest Base Camp, including exerts...

The processes that make mountains, plate tectonics, may also have given rise to the current ice age. Dennis Kent...

Laura Soul investigates the effects of reaching high altitudes with Andrew Murray...

One of the aims of Researchers’ Night all across Europe is to put people in touch with researchers whose work could...

How can studying rocks in Spain tell us where to drill for North Sea oil? Durham University PhD student Jo Morris...

Also in the news this week - an international consortium of Aphid researchers have been studying the newly decoded...

Diana O'Carroll brings us the highlights from this years British Science Festival...

This week in science history saw, in 1883, the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. The eruption and...

Why are mountain ranges so regularly spaced? Dr Taylor Perron explains...

Can we make materials that will end up as better rubbish? John Williams takes us through the problems of the refuse...