Costing the Earth
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Costing the Earth
Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet
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Introducing Rare Earth
Tom Heap introduces Rare Earth, a programme exploring major stories about our environment.
Steve Backshall Goes Off Grid
Steve Backshall lives in a new build house which is very energy efficient and almost totally off-grid. However, achieving this has been extremely tim...
Save the Microbes!
It's said that a teaspoon of soil contains more life than all of the humans on earth. Microscopic life that is - bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematode w...
Gardens of the Future
Climate resilient gardens are a feature of this month's Chelsea Flower Show, but how can the experts help the typical British gardener prepare for the...
Investigation DRS
Many of us can remember returning our pop bottles to the shop in return for cash and wonder why we can’t use a system like this today to reduce, reuse...
Water pollution solutions
Sewage is now discharged into our rivers and seas on a regular basis. It's joined by agricultural pollution and a host of microplastics. In this speci...
Losing Our History
When castles collapse into the sea or ancient burial places succumb to floodwaters we lose a slice of our shared culture. Qasa Alom reports from the...
Costing the Earth - The Power of Nature Writing
Costing the Earth - The Power of Nature Writing
Energy Lessons
After a winter of spiralling energy prices, Tom Heap asks whether our attitudes to energy consumption have changed. What lessons have we learned in th...
The Sound of Nature
Waves crashing on the shore, footsteps crunching on the forest floor. Stress levels plummet when we immerse ourselves in nature. Nick Luscombe meets...
Jobs for a Green Future
UK commitments to phase out gas boilers and petrol cars may be good news for the environment, but do we have the skill to realise our ambitions? Where...
Greening the City
New technologies are vital in the drive to turn our fossil fuel-based economies green and drastically slash carbon emissions. That technology require...
Prawn Free
Where do the prawns in your takeaway curry or pad thai come from? Peter Hadfield travels to South-East Asia to investigate the environmental impact o...
Surrendering to the Waves?
As sea levels rise, tough decisions are going to have to be taken about the flood defences of coastal Britain. How realistic will it be to continue to...
A Greener Government?
Months of governmental chaos have seen contradictory policies on the environment come and go. Tom Heap asks where the Conservative Party now stands o...
Community Energy
Community energy might conjure up images of off-grid villagers working together to put up solar panels on a remote community hall. This is one model,...
How can I be a more sustainable parent?
Since becoming pregnant, environmental historian and broadcaster Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has aspired to bring up her two children as sustainab...
COP27: Meeting the Promises
The COP 27 summit in Sharm-El-Sheikh is welcoming world leaders and climate negotiators to Egypt. In a year that has been rocked by the war in Ukraine...
CSI Oceans
Anna Turns investigates what over 30 years of post mortems on dolphins, porpoises, and whales has revealed about the state of the seas. The Cetacean S...
The Lost World of Ice
The world's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate. 2022 has been a particularly disastrous year in the Swiss Alps, where new figures show that...
Saving Vietnam's Wildlife
Life can be pretty tough for the pangolin. This scaly-skinned ant-eater is the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world. Followers of some branches...
The Prehistoric Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Change
Early humans adapted and survived in the face of a changing climate. Eleanor Rosamund-Barraclough joins an archaeological dig in Malta to learn the le...
An Environmental Paw Print
For many dog owners, watching your pet race around after a crow or leap joyfully into a stream is a source of great pleasure...but these natural behav...
The True Cost of Energy
In the UK, more than half our electricity is generated without using fossil fuels. Despite that, the rocketing price of gas has lead to matching incre...
Wild Highway
Running 12500km from the Arctic Circle to the borders of Greece, the European Greenbelt is one of the most ambitious conservation schemes ever devised...
Future Tourists
Nature and wildlife tourism has surged in recent years. Millions of us seem to want to want to follow in the footsteps of David Attenborough; meeting...
Steve Backshall Listens to the Whales
Steve Backshall explores whether slowing down and quietening noisy shipping could help protect Canada’s whale population.
A busy shipping lane b...
Ukraine: A War on Nature
It's said that the environment is the silent victim of war. In this programme, Tom Heap finds out how the conflict in Ukraine is affecting environment...
Sustainable Sport for the Future
Two of the biggest sports events of the year, the Commonwealth games in Birmingham and the FIFA world cup in Qatar have pledged to be the most sustain...
How Green Is My Money?
Making your finances work harder against climate change. Tom Heap speaks to Richard Curtis, British film director and architect of Comic Relief, about...
Green Power in the Far North
Green industry is heading to Scandinavia's far north. Fossil fuel-free steel and clean, green wind energy are in great demand but what does this rapi...
Timber!
Millions of trees were brought down by this winter's storms. Storm Arwen in November proved particularly damaging, taking out whole swathes of woodlan...
Government Energy Strategy
The government announced its new energy strategy last week, outlining plans to tackle energy supply over the coming decades. In this edition of Costin...
The World's Toughest Conservationists
It's not easy fighting for nature in many of the former Soviet states. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent reports from Tajikistan, on the trail of the snow leop...
Rip It Up And Start Again?
The pandemic has changed the way we work and shop meaning a growing number of offices and retail outlets are empty. So, what do we do with them? Knock...
Northern Ireland's Environmental Future
In Northern Ireland peace and prosperity have long been prioritised over environmental protection. Tom Heap asks if a new generation can push nature...
Energy Prices
Energy prices have hit new heights. Gas and electricity bills will rocket for most people at the end of this month as the price cap is lifted and nob...
Carbon Farming
Landowners are being offered big money for land to absorb carbon dioxide emissions. What does it mean for British farming and the shape of the country...
Britain's Dark Waters
Perfluoroalkyl substances - or PFAS - are a group of thousands of man-made chemicals which have been widely used in everything from frying pans to fir...
The Right to Swim
On a hot summer's day the River Wharfe in Ilkley in West Yorkshire is a tempting place to swim. In 2020 it was designated as the first inland waterwa...