Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet
Radio 4,·414 episodes
Tom Heap introduces Rare Earth, a programme exploring major stories about our environment.
Steve Backshall asks why it's so hard to have an energy efficient, fossil-fuel free home
Whales and polar bears get all the attention, but how healthy is Earth's microbial life?
James Wong asks if the way we garden could reduce the effects of climate change.
Tom Heap and Sepi Golzari-Munro investigate Scotland's controversial deposit return scheme
Tom Heap asks what's gone wrong with our water system and how we can put it right.
How to cope when climate change steals your culture. Qasa Alom reports from Norfolk.
Can writing about nature help to protect it?
Costing the Earth - The Power of Nature Writing
Tom Heap asks what lessons we've learned from a winter of spiralling energy prices.
Meet the Japanese scientists working to bring the soothing sounds of nature into the city.
Do we have the skilled workers to transform the UK into a net zero economy?
Can the City of London finance the Green Revolution? Tom Heap investigates.
Where do the prawns in your takeaway come from? Peter Hadfield investigates.
Qasa Alom asks how long we can go on defending our coastline from the rising seas.
What environmental policies should we now expect from the party of government?
Could community energy be the answer to the gas price crisis? Tom Heap reports.
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough juggles being a new parent while trying to be eco.
As COP 27 begins, Tom Heap looks back to COP 26 and asks what we can expect next.
Anna Turns investigates what’s killing sea mammals.
Jheni Osman learns how the world's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate.
Meet the local hero helping to save Vietnamese wildlife from the Chinese medicine trade.
How early humans navigated the trials of climate change
Man's best friend or the planet's worst enemy? What is the environmental impact of dogs?
Tom Heap and his expert panel answer the big questions about energy prices.
For 20 years conservationists have been trying to build a wildlife corridor across Europe.
Is wildlife tourism good or bad for the world’s most sensitive environments?
How quieter oceans could benefit our most charismatic marine mammals.
Tom Heap investigates the environmental impacts of the war in Ukraine.
Can world sporting tournaments really be sustainable? Qasa Alom finds out.
