BBC Environmental Podcasts
Combination of 4 BBC environmental audio podcasts.
- Farming Today - Natural History -One World - Ramblings - You and Yours : Environment
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OnePlanet: The Amazon Paradox
This programme examines the Amazon: the biggest and possibly most crucial area of forest left on the planet and an area under constant threat of destruction.
YYEnv: Green Cars 15 May 08
Less than a tenth of new cars are environmentally friendly, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Farming: 15 May 08 CAP Reform
Does the government want to scrap the CAP? The NFU says it's seen a letter from the Chancellor suggesting just that.
YYEnv: Eco Towns 14th May 2008
How new towns can be made more bio-diverse - or not?
Farming: Trading Heroin for Wheat 14 May 08
Afghan farmers are grubbing up their heroin poppies to plant wheat. It's just one of the strange consequences of rising food prices.
NatHistory: World On the Move 13 May 08
Our major themes this week are Iceland, geese and energetics. Team WOtM are in Iceland to study Brent geese and Greenland White-fronted Geese as they make one of the most challenging migrations of the animal kingdom: overcoming the mile and a half high ice cap that stands between them and their summering sites in Greenland and Arctic Canada.
Farming: 13 May 08 Free Range Standards
Will a proposal to double the number of free range birds allowed in an area mean watering down free range standards?
YYEnv: Carbon Footprint Labelling 12 May 08
Tesco has become the first supermarket to use a new carbon labelling scheme to display the green credentials of its products. Do we really need yet another label on the food we buy?
YYEnv: Carbon Footprint Labelling 12 May 08
Tesco has become the first supermarket to use a new carbon labelling scheme to display the green credentials of its products. Do we really need yet another label on the food we buy?
Farming: 12 May 08 Game Birds
An investigation into the intensive rearing of game birds.
Farming: 10 May 08 Waste
What happens to the 4 million tonnes of food that never makes it to the shop shelf after it's left the field?
Farming: 09 May 08 Chicken stealing
Rare breed chickens are being stolen throughout the UK by organised thieves. Gordon Ramsey says chefs should be banned from selling food out of season... and supermarkets say they're not to blame for the amount of food which gets chucked away.
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