This episode explores new research, which has found that soil carried on sea freight is loaded with dangerous pests and diseases.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘This Soil’ by Alice Corbin Henderson here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 194: The Unseen Heart
Episode 193: Weeding the Knots
Episode 192: Storms of Extinction
Episode 191: Making Beelines
Episode 190: Dirty Hearts
Episode 189: Tasting Geckos
Episode 188: Exotic Dangers in the Urban Forest
Episode 187: Vanishing Stripes
Episode 186: Cut out the Fireworks
Episode 185: Gardeners of the Forest
Episode 184: Unnecessary Deaths by Fire
Episode 183: A Lungful of Flying Lead
Episode 182: Sunburnt Algae
Episode 181: Deep-sea Soot
Episode 180: A Lethal Climate
Episode 179: Breathing Plastic
Episode 178: Risky Resilience
Episode 177: Binding the Coast
Episode 176: Caring Corals
Episode 175: Rays of Hope
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