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Life in the polar sea ice Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image polar bear / fruchtzwerg's world / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

By Dr Mark Brandon (The Open University)

26 October 2011

Mark Brandon discusses the tiny life trapped in the sea ice that is the foundation for the entire food chain at the poles  Read more : Life in the polar sea ice

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Polar Plankton: indicators of environmental change Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image idua_japan under CC-BY-NC-ND

By Professor Chris Reid (Guest), Dr Graham Hosie (Guest)

06 October 2011

The Saving Species team talks to Chris Reid and Graham Hosie about studying microscopic polar plankton - the source of all food in the oceans  Read more : Polar Plankton: indicators of environmental change

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The secrets of the krill Featuring: audio,  Matt Wilson and Jay Clark NOAA

By Robert King (Guest)

13 September 2010

Antarctic krill are the one of the most abundant animal species on earth. The Saving Species team talk to Robert King in Australia to learn...  Read more : The secrets of the krill

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Staying ahead of the game: Seabirds Featuring: audio, Patryk Kosmider | Dreamstime.com

By The Saving Species production team (The Open University)

13 September 2010

The Saving Species team continue their investigation into seabird populations in an interview with seabird ecologist Sarah Wanless. Here she discusses how the changing sea...  Read more : Staying ahead of the game: Seabirds

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Troubled waters: Join the debateBy marinephotobank via Flickr under Creative Commons 2.0

By Dr Patricia Ash (The Open University)

07 September 2010

The immediate, and horrendous, effects of the recent oil leak in the Gulf have been widely covered by the news - sea creatures smothered in...  Read more : Troubled waters: Join the debate

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Introducing waterBBC

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

18 June 2007

This extract from Potable Water Treatment, an Open University OpenLearn unit, introduces the basics of water as a source of nutrition.  Read more : Introducing water

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Should we worry about extinction?BBC

By The Big Question team (The Open University)

14 March 2005

Species have vanished since there was first evolution. Do only neanderthals worry about extinction?  Read more : Should we worry about extinction?

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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