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	Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listeners' questions and concerns.


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0-9 听 80 mph effect on the environment


A Abiotic oil and Peak Oil Theory Acid Rain Acid Rain Adapting to Climate Change Adelie Penguins African elephants 'destroying trees' Air pollution & Autism Air quality Airbus A380 Aircraft emissions in Upper Atmosphere Airports Versus Railways Albertan Oil Sands Albino Frogs Alpine Ice Retreat Aluminium Foil Aluminium foil recycling Amazonian Pipelines Amazonian Rainforest American crayfish Anaerobic Digestion Aral Sea, The Archie the giant squid Arctic Ice Melt Are vegetarians who eat soya products inadvertently helping in the destruction of Amazonian Rainforest? Are we losing trace elements from our soils? Arran "No Take" Zone, The Arsenic in drinking water Artic Char Artificial fragrances Artificial Photosynthesis Asbestos Ash Trees Aspen die-back Asthma and CFC's Atlantic Conveyor and Gulf Stream Atmospheric dust Australian Bush Tomatoes Australian Swamp Stonecrop Avian Flu Avian predators


B Ballast water Ban on stubble burning Banana Plant, The Barn Owl, The Barn Owls - Increase in Numbers Barnacles Bee-on-bee violence Bees Bhopal Big Bang Big Bang and Alien Life Bin Liners Bio-degradable packaging Bio-diesel Biofuels Biofuels and Soil Depletion Biofuels and Sri Lanka Biofuels from algae Bio-fuels' impact on bio-diversity Biogas Generation Biological Materials in Landfill Bio-mass and C02 storage Biomass and Flood Plains Bird Baths Bird Collisions Bird Migration 2003 Bird Song Birds Birds Birds and thermals Birds and Wet Weather Birds Drinking Birds eyesight Birds in Hot Weather Birds' mess Blackberries: safe to eat? Blackthorn Blossom Blandford Fly, The Blue tits and milk bottles Blue Tits and Milk Bottles Survey Results Bottle recycling in the Licensed Trade Bottled water Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami Breeding Flamingos Britain's volcanic past British Coal Resources British Space Exploration Brown Hare, The Brownfield development Brown's Gas Burning waste paper Butterfly Conservation Kits Buying milk from the Supermarket or the Milkman Buzzards


C C02 C02 release through forest fires in Indonesia C02 Storage Cabbage White Butterflys Calculating Rainfall Can carbon be captured from car exhaust gases and stored harmlessly away from the atmosphere? Can lightbulbs heat your home? Can mosquito and other biting insects transmit viruses including HIV? Can Oak be Harvested Sustainably? Can slugs smell? Can solar radiation be used to produce large quantities of fresh water? Can the quality of soil be improved by remineralising it with crushed rock? Can we build houses for wildlife as well as people? Can we store nuclear waste in space? Can we use disused North Sea oil wells to store our waste? Can you see the Great Wall of China from Space? Canadian Pesticide Ban Canals Car Life Cycles Carbon and sulphur emissions from volcanoes Carbon dioxide emissions from animals Carbon offset programmes and calculators Carbon Offsets and Carbon Trading Cardiff Barrage Carlisle floods, The Carrying bacteria on space missions Causes of drought in Eritrea Celsius and Centigrade Central Railway, The Centre of mass in solar system Changes in UK sea fish population Chernobyl Cholorophyll and creeping thistles Choosing what packaging to buy to reduce your environmental impact. Christmas Lights Christmas Trees Circum-horizontal arcs City Trees starved of nutrients? Will they seek out water and damage sewers? Classification of Life and Species Cleaner fish Climate Change Climate Change Climate Change: Even if humans had no effect on climate Climate Change: Sea's Salinity Clothes Moths Cloud Seeding Cluster flies Coal Gasification Coastal environmental protection Cod worms Coffee and garden pests Cold Water Coral Collapse of Larsen B Ice Shelf Colour of Demoiselles Colour of Lightning, The Combi Boliers - Pros and Cons Combined heat and power Compost toilets and reed beds Container threat to marine environment Contamination of soil Contortionist Toads Cooking Eggs without fire Copper Strips and Moss Coppicing mature trees Coral Corks Cormorants Cormorants Cosmic dust Cosmic rays and particles from outer space Could ozone from exhaust pollution help plug the hole on the ozone layer? Coypu Crabs Crayfish Creating and maintaining wildflower meadows Creeping Dead Zones Crickets and Grasshoppers - Differences Crow-on-heron violence Crows Cuckoo spit Culling of kangaroos Cut flowers from Kenya


D DAB Radio in times of Emergency? Daddy Long Legs Daddy Long Legs Spider Daddy Long Legs Spiders Daffodils Dark Matter Davos delegates: part of the environmental problem? Daylight Saving DDT to combat malaria? Declining Songbirds Deep sea fish Deforestation and the banning of forest fires in Nepal Dendrochronology Desalination Desert Birds Desertification Detergents Diatoms Did the Black Death create the so-called mini ice-age? Dish washing Displacement of the gulf stream Disposable Wipes Disposal of dead pets Disposal of low-energy lightbulbs Disposal of radioactive smoke alarms batteries? Diversity Do birds feel the cold? Do concentrations of oxygen fall in cities and can asthmatics detect those low concentrations? Do earthquakes effect climate change? Do Human Beings produce more CO2 than Cars Do human medicines enter the environment via the sewage system? Do people with longer legs use less energy when they walk? Do Pigeons Swim? Do social wasps behave like bees? do they have any natural predators? Do we design for the car? Does harvesting cockles harm wading birds? Does living in a flat make it more difficult to lead a greener lifestyle? Does meat production harm the environment? Does putting cycles on the top of your car reduce your mileage? Does rural life imposes greater costs on the environment than urban life? Dolphins Domestic power from cycling Domestic Wind Turbines & Solar Power Double Tides in the English Channel Doves Draft London Plan, The Dragonflies Driest place in Britain and the Fens Project, The Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska Dumping Sewage Dung and Jerusalem artichokes as Bio-fuel Durability of straw houses Dust and its impact on the oceans Dutch Elm Disease in the UK


E 听 Early tides and the moon's proximity to earth Earth from the Air, The Earthquake prediction Earth's hum , The Earth's Magnetic Presence, The Earth's Temperature, The Earthworms Eco footprint Eco Tourism Eco-friendly cars Ecological damage from European Forest Fires Economics and the Environment Economics of Re-Cycling, The Eels Effects of global warming on the tree-line Eider ducks versus fishermen in The Wash Electric cars Electric Eels Elephant grass Elms Embodied energy/C02 from the construction of wind turbines Emissions from Nuclear Power Plants Energy Efficency of New-Build Housing Energy Efficiency of Biofuels Energy from Kelp Energy loss on the High Street Energy of digital versus analogue radio Energy Review Energy saving Enhanced Ocean Evaporation via Windmills Environmental Education Environmental effects of modern warfare Environmental Impact of Patio Heaters Environmental Impact of the Drainage of the UK's Wetland Environmental Investments Environmental problems associated with using salt on our roads Environmental Threats from European Transport Corridor - The Via Baltica European Oak Evolution Evolution and newly discovered animals Evolution: Are newly discovered animals likely to be recently evolved? Expanding universe - red shift and blue shift light Extinction Extinction: Preserve or let Nature take it's course Extremophiles Exxon Mobil and Stanford University's Global Climate & Energy Project


F Fairtrade or organic Farmers: Water Waste? Fashionable Fish Fate of the saguaro cactus Feeding the birds Feminizing chemicals in drinking water Fertiliser Fieldfares Fireflies Fireworks Fish & chips Fish eggs Fish farming Fishing-free areas Flamingos Flatfish Flint Flooding Flouridation Fluid Bed Technology Fly Swatting Flying Ants Food Miles Formation of chalk Formation of Scottish Lochs Free Refuse Collections Frog deaths Frogs Frogs and toads Frogspawn Frogspawn Failure Fruit Flies Fungi Future of New Orleans, The


G Gas Flares Geothermal Energy Geo-Thermal Energy Giants Causeway Girls and science Global average temperatures Global Fossil Fuel Levy Global population Glow Worms GM in the UK GM Sugar Beet Goat Sponsoring Grants for renewable energy production Grass Grass-cutting Grasshoppers Gravity Grazing in the Lowland Commons Great crested newts Green Belt's role in nature conservation, The Green Burials Green Burials Green Taxation Greenland Grey squirrels Grey Squirrels Growing Season Growing wood to heat a house


H Hailstones Hailstones Hands-on nature Hardwoods Harnessing the power of rivers Harvested forest thrive? Haskins Report, The Have Human Beings Ceased to Evolve? Hazel Weevil, The Head Lice Heat in the atmosphere Heat in the atmosphere and air source heat pumps Heat produced by different energy sources Heather Beetles Heating from animal and human waste Hedgehogs Hedgehogs in the Outer Hebrides Hedgerow trees Helium 3 Help with wildflower meadows Hemp's role in a sustainable future Herbicides/Pesticides in glasshouses Home Planet Carbon Footprint Honey Bees: Disorientation Hormone mimicking Horse Chestnut Canker Horse Chestnut Leaf miner Horseflies Hot Air House martins and house sparrows? Houseflies How are shells formed? How can you tell whether a badger has TB? How did salt get into the sea? How do birds know that spring has arrived? How do birds navigate? How do plants mimic human characteristics? How do ponds freeze? How do salmon and trout survive in freshwater and saltwater? How do we measure biodiversity? How heavy are clouds? How is coal made from trees? How is the supply of volcanic lava replenished? How is the Universe expanding? How much carbon dioxide do the oceans soak up? How much carbon does a tree store? How much energy is used in recycling paper? How much land would I need to keep my family self-sufficient in vegetables? How much oxygen is there in the atmosphere? How much water and organic material is tied up in the bodies of human beings? How Plants Move How the human population is growing in height How to take off from the Moon How will stored carbon dioxide remain underground and not leak back into the atmosphere? Humane Mousetraps Humming-bird hawk moth Hummingbird Hawk Moths Hydro Electric Power in Iceland and the Pink Footed Goose Hydrogen Hydrogen Sulphide Hydrogen Sulphide and the Permian Extinction Hydro-Power


I Ice Age If the Atlantic Ocean is the biggest influence on Britain's weather Impact of African Game Reserves on nature and people Impact of nitrogen on heaths Impact of sea-level rise and polar ice-melt on seismic activity Impact of the removal of mangroves on the Mumbai Floods Impact on insect populations from climate change Incineration of animal carcasses Increased C02 and plant growth Indian shipbreakers Individuals making a difference to the health of our environment Insect hibernation Invasion of Algae Invasive species Invasive Species Inversion layer Inversion layers Invest in Models or Mitigation? Involving children with environmental issues Is Autumn Coming Early? Is global warming the new religion? Is it a good idea to pay loggers not to cut down trees? Is it for us to tell others how to manage their environment? Is it safe to feed nuts to birds in the Summer? Is mathematics truly infallible? Is nature conversation planning for climate change? Is the Black Poplar under threat? Is the caviar trade wiping out sturgeon? Isostatic compensation Ivy


J Japanese Melody Roads Jellyfish Jet Stream and Weather Journey to the centre of the earth


K Kariba Dam, The Kefalonian sea caves


L 听 Ladybird spiders Ladybirds (2004) Ladybirds (2006) Lake Naivasha Lake Vostok Large Numbers Lead Shot from Shooting Lichens Light Pollution Light Rail Transit Liming and Limestone Quarrying Living close to waste transfer stations Local Agenda 21 Local Bio-Fuels Lochs Locusts Longshore Drift Looking after our soil Loose Dogs


M Magpies Mainland oil exploration Mammals and flooding Managed Retreat Marine Conservation Areas Marine Conservation Areas Marine mammals tolerance of salt Marram grass Martian ice caps and global warming Maud Dickinson and her 'Life Crystals' Measuring biodiversity and tackling the loss of Rainforest Measuring Sea Level Melting glaciers Melting ice in Antarctica Melting of the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica Message in a bottle Methane production by trees and implications for carbon offset programmes Mice eating unusual things Micro generators Midges 'Mobbing' Mobile Phone Masts Molluscicides threat to song thrushes following stubble burning ban Mongrel Birds Monkey Puzzle Trees Moon and The Weather, The Moon Craters Mosquitoe eradication: Disadvantages? Moths Moths Mountains Movement of Earth Through Space Mucuna - the "magic" bean Muntjac deer Mystery mark on windows in Milton Keynes Mystery woodpecker in Shropshire Myxomatosis


N Nano and pico-plankton NASA articles about Europa and Lake Vostok National Forest, The Natural England Nature Parks Nauru and Phosphate Mining Nectar nematodes and hedgehogs Network Rail's Policy on tree removal New Builds or Renovations New Zealand Flatworm, The Night time electricity Nightingales Nightjars and Forest Management Nile Perch Nitrogen Cycle, The North American Moose, The Norwegian Waste Recycling Machine Nuclear energy Nuclear Energy in France Nuclear fusion Nuclear Waste Disposal - Spacejunk Nutritional value of locusts Nutritional Values in Organic and GM foods


O Offshore aggregate dredging Oil from plankton Oil reserves and dependancy Oil Spills at sea Organophosphates Organophosphates and carbamates Overgrazing Ozone over the North and South Poles


P Pagioclimax Palm Oil Paper from Eucalyptus Papilloma Virus Parakeets PCBs Peahens Peat production Pedalling Powerhouse, The Peregrines Phenology and Early Spring Phosphates for fertiliser: will we run out? Phosphorescence Photosynthesis Photo-Voltaic energy Placing Wind Turbines Offshore Plague, The Planetary Planes Plankton Plant Tendrils Planting acorns in the permafrost Planting Silver Birch Trees Planting Silver Birch Trees Plants to act as a Carbon Sink? Plastic bags Plastic Bags Plastic water bottles Plastic water mains Plastics in the ocean Plastics Recycling Plate Tectonics Poisonous fish in UK Poisonous spiders in the UK Pole Reversal Ponds and Biodiversity Pooh sticks Population Population Population growth Porcupine Fish Porpoises as weather forecasters Precession of the Earth Preventing Hurricanes Professor James Lovelock and Climate Change Professor Stott's calculations Protecting nature against nature - Norfolk & Suffolk Broads Protecting out Landscapes Protection of coral reefs Public consultation Purple Emporer Butterfly


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R Radon gas Ragworms Ragwort (2002) Ragwort (2003) Rail and the environment Railways and the postal service Rain harvesting Rainforest Feedback Rainforests Rats Rats Recycling Cars and Car Parts Recycling corks Recycling industrial waste Recycling Low Energy Light Bulbs Recycling Plastics Recycling Tyres Red Kites Red Spider Mite Redshanks Redwings Reed Beds Refrigerating foods Refuse collection on Tyneside Restocking the Ocean with Fish Rhododendron Ring Necked Parakeets Robins Role of Shooting and Conservation in Nature Conservation Rooks Rowan trees RSPB and wind energy, The Ruddy ducks Rural transport Russian Oil Industry , The


S Safe Disposal of Batteries Salmon and Global Warming Salt Levels Salt Marshes Salt Water Flush Salvinia Fern Salvinia Fern Samphire Samphire harvesting Sand dunes Savanna Saving Energy In The Home Scientific value of public wildlife surveys Sea defences and coastal erosion Sea Farming Sea Level Rise and Nuclear Power Stations Sea-bed recyling Seagulls in Dunstable Seals Seaweed Self Observation: Light and Space Selling Electricity to the National Grid Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Severn Barrage - Impact on Bird-Life Severn Estuary Severn Estuary, The Sewage heating homes Shellfish: 'R in the Mouth' Ships hitting whales Shooting song birds Shop Heating Should we feed garden birds? Sichuan Earthquake Silverfish Sites of Special Scientific Interest Slow worms Slugs Slugs and snails Snails Soil Invertebrates Soil Minerals and Nutrients Solar disinfection Solar flares Solar Panels Solar panels in new properties Solitary Bees: Do they sting? Solitary Dolphins Sound and the wind Space Rocket Pollution Spanish Hydrological Plan Sparrowhawks sparrows and song thrushes? Spider predator Spiders' webs Spiders' Webs Spore technology Sprats Squirrels Sri Lankan Wetlands Stag beetles Starlings Stoats Success of the Jubilee River Sudden oak death Sugar Beet Fungus Sulphur dioxide emissions from ships Sulphuric acid and potatoes Sun and sunblock Sun and Warm Weather , The Sunbathing blackbirds Sunlight and Smoke in the Atmosphere Supertrees Surfing Sustainable Forests Swallows Swifts Swifts Sycamore trees


T Tanalising Wood: Are the chemicals harmful? Tapping the power of the deserts Tarry residue from coal fires Temperature of Windermere Thermal conversion process Thermal depolymerisation Third World debt Thistles Threat to bees, The Threats from invasive species Thrushes Thunder bugs Ticks and Lyme Disease Tides Tides on lakes Topsoil erosion Town Gas Traffic lights Transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas Treatment of West Nile Virus in Chicago Tree Guards Tree loss in the re-creation of lowland heaths Tree Preservation Orders Trees Trees and absorption of C02 Trees and DNA 'finger printing' Tribal displacement Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Tuna Turbines at sea Turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans Tyres Tyres


U 听 UK Scorpians Undersea Methane Unidentified Caterpillar Unidentified snake Urban Wildlife Conservation Using wave power generation to fight coastal erosion


V Vanishing Seaweed Variability in houses energy efficiency Volcanoes


W Wasps and Badgers Waste incineration; the benefits Waste miles Wasted heat from power stations Water cycle - from rain to the tap Water filters Water softeners Water Table, The Water use in the former Soviet Union Water-meadows Wetlands and Greenhouse gases What damage to the environment does scientific exploration do? What does a tonne of C02 look like? What happens to spent lead shot in the countryside? What happens to sunscreen that is washed off people into the sea and can it cause environmental problems? What has happened to the populations of blackbirds What impact will making hydrogen from water have on our water supply and where will the energy to produce the hydrogen come from? What is driving the current high cost of food? What is the "Last Ice Age"? What is the green flash I can sometimes see when the sun sets? What is the herbicide Aminopyralid and why has it been causing problems on allotments? What is the impact of burning peat? What is the impact on low flying aircraft on walrus? What is the point of birds? What is the potential environmental impact of waste heat from power stations? What is the state of play of research into oil from algae What is wind-chill? What research has been done into the phosphate induced process of eutrophication in inshore waters? what similar features affect central Europe and the Middle East What was impaling beetles on barbed wire fences in the Inner Hebrides? What's happening to our frog spawn? What's in a slug's trail? Where did the water on Planet Earth come from? Where do all the fieldfares go? Where do all the snails in my garden come from? Where does Space start? Where does the rubber worn away from tyres end up? Whisky and peat Who are we related to? Who stands to gain from GM foods? Why are planets spherical? Why can't nuclear waste be re-used so all the radioactivity is consumed in energy production and it is no longer dangerous? Why did the small leaved lime disappear so quickly from British woodland? Why does Venus appear to spin backwards? Why the height of the tides varies daily Wildlife news Will burning fossil fuels reduce the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere? Will different road surfaces reduce tyre noise and what would be the impact of planting more trees on road noise? Will ice melt in The Alps affect diatoms in the sea? Will melting glaciers and ice sheets significantly affect the salinity of the ocean? Will painting roofs white reflect sunlight back into space and reduce global warming? Will the new Marine Bill include provision to protect Sand Eels from over dredging? Wind borne pesticides: Africa's impact on Caribbean coral reefs Wind Turbines and Birds Wind Turbines Effect on the Weather Wind turbines: how do they affect bats? Windfarms and marine ecology Winter temperature and our health Wood Based Society, A Woodlice Woodworm Worms and Wormeries Wren, The


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