Episode 9: Our Elephant Graveyard

Trees and plants use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, removing it from the atmosphere. In this episode of the podcast I investigate how forest elephants help to make this process more efficient, and how their extinction will have negative effects on global warming.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read ‘The Elephant Graveyard’ by Roy Marz here.   

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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