This episode explores new research, which has found that better-managed road verges can help boost the effectiveness and conservation of pollinating insects.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Mower’ by Philip Larkin here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 75: Shrinking Monarchs
Episode 74: Tidal Evolution
Episode 73: Bellwether Beetles
Episode 72: Circles Beneath the Sea
Episode 71: Better than Earth
Episode 70: Zombie Fires
Episode 69: Wild Offerings
Episode 68: Symbiotics Senses
Episode 67: Rediscovered Frogs
Episode 66: At Loggerheads with the Storm
Episode 65: An Outbreak of Flooding
Episode 64: The Tragedy of the Bees
Episode 63: Artificial Galaxies
Episode 62: The Quiet Sun
Episode 61: The Mortality of Trees
Episode 60: Forecasting Drought
Episode 58: Plastic Lobsters
Episode 57: Gnawing the Permafrost
Episode 56: Lost in the Glow
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