Living Planet

    Looking to reconnect with nature? Want to make better decisions for the health of the planet? Every Friday, Living Planet brings you the stories, facts and debates on the key environmental issues of our time.

  • Deep Dive: Bright lights, big, LED cities

  • Naturally Connected: Why woodpeckers are choosing the city over the forest

  • Deep Dive: The hidden solar revolution that stumped experts

  • Deep Dive: The oil that is waiting for its great escape

  • Introducing: Up from Dust

  • Deep Dive: Can planting trees really offset my flight emissions?

  • Naturally Connected: What wild geese teach us about teamwork

  • Deep Dive: How eco-friendly funerals are changing traditions

  • Deep Dive: The battle to ban fossil fuel advertising

  • What’s better: leather vs vegan leather?

  • Naturally Connected: Chirping from the crypt

  • Introducing: What on Earth

  • Deep Dive: What happens when ants invade?

  • Deep Dive: Suck, bury and store – Denmark wants your CO2, but why?

  • Deep Dive: The dirty truth about laundry

  • What’s better: dairy vs plant-based milk

  • Naturally Connected: The fox's tale

  • Naturally Connected: Finding humanity beneath the Arches

  • Naturally Connected: The lost art of foraging

  • Deep Dive: Murky waters - what's stealing the light from our oceans?

  • What's better - the 4 or 5 day workweek?

  • Deep Dive: Why you’d better check the sunscreen you use

  • Deep Dive: Euro 2024 – can soccer go green?

  • Deep Dive: Are we blind to our pets’ climate crimes?

  • Deep Dive: The true cost of sugar

  • Deep Dive: Could ocean viruses be used for carbon capture?

  • Deep Dive: Where do all the flowers come from?

  • A Quick Update: Living Planet gets a refresh

  • Deep Dive: Reviving repair culture

  • What's better: electric cars vs combustion cars?

  • Introducing: Feet in 2 Worlds

  • Naturally Connected: Learning from your local stream

  • Deep Dive: The hidden toll of roadkill

  • Deep Dive: The evolution of our plastic dependency

  • Deep Dive: Why mercury is still a problem

  • Deep Dive: Illegal bushmeat trade

  • What's better: Cotton or polyester clothing?

  • Naturally Connected: An ode to the crow

  • What's better: Contact lenses or glasses?

  • Deep Dive: The iron grip of Brazil's mining industry

  • What's better: Tea or coffee?

  • What's better: Plastic or paper?

  • What's better: E-readers or paper books?

  • Naturally Connected: The memory of trees

  • Deep dive: We need to talk about farmers and mental health

  • Deep Dive: The truly amazing world of fungi

  • If you love salmon, you might want to listen to this...

  • Why this 3D-printed house could be a gamechanger

  • Is recycling really the answer to the plastic crisis?

  • Bioplastics: The good, the bad and the ugly

  • Bugs that eat plastic

  • The everyday Americans tackling climate change

  • What kind of world is possible?

  • Cooling amphibians & carbon-capturing mollusks

  • Whisky's peat problem, the repair cafe & climate skeptics cashing in on the green economy

  • Amitav Ghosh on colonialism & the climate crisis

  • War & warming

  • Holding on: Dutch farmers, California's salmon & Germany's Ahr valley

  • Is it time to end biofuels?

  • Rethinking conservation

  • The business of bogs

  • Out with the old: European cities & climate change

  • Tweaks for the environment? From pills for burping cows, eyes on cows' butts & more

  • Introducing: The Big Switch on Europe's energy crisis

  • Reenvisioning the restroom

  • The growing microplastics problem

  • Insuring ourselves against the inevitable

  • Giving up fast fashion

  • Water woes & how to combat water scarcity

  • Life in the Arctic & Russia's exiled environmentalists

  • How did we become planet plastic?

  • Extreme heat & mass tourism

  • Leaving coal, not people, behind

  • The power of solar

  • Cooling amphibians & carbon-capturing mollusks

  • Where your dirty old cars end up & Norway's bid to mine the ocean floor

  • The world on fire: How to deal with wildfires

  • Whale speak, nature's opera & tidal marshes (rebroadcast)

  • Bill McKibben on power & the climate emergency

  • Amitav Ghosh on colonialism & the climate crisis

  • Introducing: Drilled on ExxonMobil's oil colonialism in Guyana

  • Critical minerals & decarbonization: Can we have our cake and eat it, too?

  • Climate misinformation: How do we tackle it?

  • Genetic modification divides Kenya, swapping coca for biodiversity in Colombia & Ghana's eroding coastline

  • Introducing: Heat of the Moment on what a 'just transition' really means

  • Conflicting priorities: The cost of cobalt, dealing with deer in Scotland & fighting heat and air pollution in India's slums

  • Fake electronics lead to e-waste, the pitfalls of compostable packaging and a greener refugee camp

  • Hawaii: Paradise in peril

  • A change of taste: Coffee, wine & flying

  • Preventing the next pandemic

  • The Way of Water

  • Searching for home on a hotter planet

  • Climate in the classroom

  • Profits, peaks & climate-proofing islands

  • Back to basics: Hand-pollination, ancient grains & organic hope

  • Flower power, cloud catchers & green cobalt

  • Europe is destroying ancient forests in the name of 'green energy'

  • The nature around us: Permafrost science breaks down in the Russian Arctic, building a library of species, biopiracy and brown hyenas

  • How do we shake fossil fuels? Petrochemicals in beauty products, Uganda's pipeline battle and evaluating EVs

  • Finding the cold on a warming planet — balmy winter sports, chilly supermarkets and ancient ice cores

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