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Climate Change lessons from Fossils

Fossil record has lessons for today about climate change and the rise of insects

The value today of the fossil record linking rising temperature to increased activity of plant-eating insects 55 million years ago. How intense beams of X-rays used to investigate artifacts from the wreck of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's warship that sank in 1545, and was raised in 1982. Plus, heading to the Antarctic with a shipload of scientists, the search for new Earth-like planets, the role dark matter played in creating the first stars.

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26 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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