大象传媒 Radio 4 - Costing the Earth

Introducing Rare Earth

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?

Tom Heap asks what lessons we've learned from a winter of spiralling energy prices.