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Nature & Environment
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Soil is not just dirt but a living system with many important functions. Degraded soils impact on food production, erosion, and more, affecting the lives of people around the world. Restoration efforts in China, Zambia and other countries seek to reverse this trend.
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Nature & Environment
Soil as the book of nature
Our planet is largely covered with soil, and like sunlight and water we tend to take it for granted, and not give it the respect it deserves.
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Society, Politics & Law
Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
A former school site in East Sussex has become the focus for a fascinating cooperation between local politics and international activism.
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Languages
How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
The framing of the national debate around Brexit owed a debt to coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, says Rahel Cramer.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How do natural disasters affect mental health?
Understanding why suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria could help us prepare for future natural disasters. Jane Palmer explains.
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Society, Politics & Law
Non-existent countries
What makes a country count as a country? Andy Morris interviews geographer and broadcaster Nick Middleton about his recent book 'An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist'.
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Society, Politics & Law
Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
How have the films and radio programmes broadcast by the BBC shaped how we understand environmental change issues? Joe Smith shares his journey through the archives in the second part of a two part podcast series.
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Society, Politics & Law
Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
How have the films and radio programmes broadcast by the BBC shaped how we understand environmental change issues? Joe Smith shares his journey through the archives in a two part podcast series.
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Nature & Environment
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
The smallest specks of air pollution can create enormous storms in the rainforest - and we don't yet understand enough about this, reports Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade.
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Nature & Environment
Killers or carers?
Who do we think we are when it comes to other animals?- asks Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart.
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Nature & Environment
London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi
The UK has cleaner air than in 1952 when the great smog of London descended on the capital – but not yet clean enough for thousands.
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Nature & Environment
Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
The electric bus and other vehicles could have been running in the UK over a century ago, if fraudsters had not stifled clean transport at birth.