Living Planet

By DW

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Episodes: 100


 Sep 15, 2021

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Looking to reconnect with nature? Want to make better decisions for the health of the planet? Every Friday, Living Planet brings you the stories, facts and debates on the key environmental issues of our time.

Episode Date
Nature's healing touch: Fact or fiction?
Mar 28, 2025
Are your flowers bad for the environment? (Rebroadcast)
Mar 21, 2025
How far will governments go to stop climate protests?
Mar 14, 2025
What does 1 ton of CO2 look like?
Mar 07, 2025
Water, AI & the craic – Your questions answered
Feb 28, 2025
Who's scared of 15-minute cities?
Feb 21, 2025
Growing food in the dark
Feb 14, 2025
A Pacific island starts packing for metaverse move – but what to take?
Feb 07, 2025
Ireland's water dilemma: Protecting the River Shannon or powering the future?
Jan 31, 2025
Part 2: Light pollution – Rewilding the night
Jan 24, 2025
Telling landscapes: The Brontes, Stoker and Herriot
Jan 17, 2025
The winter secrets of bees
Jan 10, 2025
The call of the sea
Jan 03, 2025
BONUS: Your questions answered, plus our favorite moments of 2024
Dec 27, 2024
What's better – real Christmas trees or fake ones?
Dec 19, 2024
Introducing: Don’t Drink the Milk — The curious history of the lawn
Dec 13, 2024
Part 1: Light pollution – Bright lights, big, LED cities
Dec 06, 2024
Why woodpeckers are choosing the city over the forest
Nov 29, 2024
One country's shock solar revolution
Nov 22, 2024
The ticking time bombs at the bottom of the ocean
Nov 15, 2024
Introducing: Up from Dust
Nov 07, 2024
Can planting trees really offset my flight emissions?
Oct 31, 2024
What wild geese teach us about teamwork
Oct 25, 2024
How eco-friendly funerals are changing traditions
Oct 17, 2024
The battle to ban fossil fuel advertising
Oct 11, 2024
What’s better – leather or vegan leather?
Oct 04, 2024
Chirping from the crypt
Sep 27, 2024
Introducing: What on Earth
Sep 20, 2024
When ants invade
Sep 13, 2024
Suck, bury, store – Denmark wants your CO2, but why?
Sep 06, 2024
The dirty truth about laundry
Aug 29, 2024
What’s better – dairy or plant-based milk?
Aug 23, 2024
The fox's tale
Aug 16, 2024
Finding humanity beneath the Arches
Aug 09, 2024
The lost art of foraging
Aug 02, 2024
Murky waters - what's stealing the light from our oceans?
Jul 25, 2024
What's better - the 4 or 5 day workweek?
Jul 19, 2024
Why you’d better check the sunscreen you use
Jul 12, 2024
Can soccer go green?
Jul 05, 2024
Are we blind to our pets’ climate crimes?
Jun 28, 2024
The true cost of sugar
Jun 20, 2024
Could ocean viruses be used for carbon capture?
Jun 14, 2024
Where do all the flowers come from?
Jun 06, 2024
Quick update – Living Planet gets a refresh
Jun 05, 2024
Reviving repair culture
May 29, 2024
What's better – electric or combustion cars?
May 23, 2024
Introducing: Feet in 2 Worlds
May 16, 2024
Learning from your local stream
May 09, 2024
The hidden toll of roadkill
May 02, 2024
The evolution of our plastic dependency
Apr 25, 2024
A mercurial problem
Apr 18, 2024
Illegal bushmeat trade
Apr 11, 2024
What's better – cotton or polyester clothing?
Apr 04, 2024
An ode to the crow
Mar 28, 2024
What's better – contact lenses or glasses?
Mar 21, 2024
The iron grip of Brazil's mining industry
Mar 14, 2024
What's better – tea or coffee?
Mar 08, 2024
What's better – paper or plastic?
Feb 29, 2024
What's better – e-readers or paper books?
Feb 22, 2024
The memory of trees
Feb 15, 2024
We need to talk about farmers and mental health
Feb 08, 2024
The truly amazing world of fungi
Feb 01, 2024
If you love salmon, you might want to listen to this...
Jan 25, 2024
Why this 3D-printed house could be a gamechanger
Jan 19, 2024
Is recycling really the answer to the plastic crisis?
Jan 11, 2024
Bioplastics: The good, the bad and the ugly
Jan 04, 2024
Bugs that eat plastic
Dec 28, 2023
The everyday Americans tackling climate change
Dec 21, 2023
What kind of world is possible?
Dec 15, 2023
Cooling amphibians & carbon-capturing mollusks
Dec 07, 2023
Whisky's peat problem, the repair cafe & climate skeptics cashing in on the green economy
Nov 30, 2023
Amitav Ghosh on colonialism & the climate crisis
Nov 23, 2023
War & warming
Nov 17, 2023
Holding on: Dutch farmers, California's salmon & Germany's Ahr valley
Nov 09, 2023
Is it time to end biofuels?
Nov 02, 2023
Rethinking conservation
Oct 26, 2023
The business of bogs
Oct 19, 2023
Out with the old: European cities & climate change
Oct 12, 2023
Tweaks for the environment? From pills for burping cows, eyes on cows' butts & more
Oct 05, 2023
Introducing: The Big Switch on Europe's energy crisis
Sep 29, 2023
Reenvisioning the restroom
Sep 21, 2023
The growing microplastics problem
Sep 14, 2023
Insuring ourselves against the inevitable
Sep 08, 2023
Giving up fast fashion
Aug 31, 2023
Water woes & how to combat water scarcity
Aug 24, 2023
Life in the Arctic & Russia's exiled environmentalists
Aug 17, 2023
How did we become planet plastic?
Aug 10, 2023
Extreme heat & mass tourism
Aug 04, 2023
Leaving coal, not people, behind
Jul 27, 2023
The power of solar
Jul 20, 2023
Cooling amphibians & carbon-capturing mollusks
Jul 13, 2023
Where your dirty old cars end up & Norway's bid to mine the ocean floor
Jul 06, 2023
The world on fire: How to deal with wildfires
Jun 29, 2023
Whale speak, nature's opera & tidal marshes (rebroadcast)
Jun 22, 2023
Bill McKibben on power & the climate emergency
Jun 15, 2023
Amitav Ghosh on colonialism & the climate crisis
Jun 08, 2023
Introducing: Drilled on ExxonMobil's oil colonialism in Guyana
Jun 01, 2023
Critical minerals & decarbonization: Can we have our cake and eat it, too?
May 25, 2023
Climate misinformation: How do we tackle it?
May 18, 2023
Genetic modification divides Kenya, swapping coca for biodiversity in Colombia & Ghana's eroding coastline
May 11, 2023