Podcast #51: New ways of monitoring Earth from Space; Apple CEO takes on conservative think tank + The lonely tree

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Two new schemes tom monitor rainfall and deforestation from Space
2. My top environmental web picks
3. Apple CEO Tim Cook tells climate skeptic think tank where to put their money
4. A community's attempt to save the tree it loves 

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Global Precipitation Measurement mission (NASA)

Info graphic of Global Precipitation Measurement satellite (Space.com)

Global Forest Watch

The Passing of a Giant (Mark Deeble)

Nuclear Waste's Final Destination (BBC Costing The Earth)

Show Me The Way To Go Home (BBC Discovery)

A town's love for one tree (Guardian)

Podcast #46: Astronaut Chris Hadfield bows out, Why we should eat more insects + Our vocal ancestors

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth a celebrity
2. Timetable agreed for ending EU fish discards
3. Eat insects, says UN
4. Top picks in environmental news
5. Peugeot pioneers air-powered car
6. Report: 97% of scientists agree on man-made global warming
7. Baboons reveal clues about our vocal ancestors 

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Episode #44: The battle to stop ivory poaching, Fish fraud in the US + The electric Grand Prix

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Efforts to stop the deepening crisis over ivory poaching
2. Fish fraud: A third of US products mislabelled
3. More than 7,500 dead pigs found in Chinese river
4. Keystone XL passes environmental impact report
5. Mars Rover finds evidence that life could have existed
6. 2012 saw second steepest CO2 rise since records began
7. President Obama appoints environment champions
8. Should weather forecasters talk about climate change
9. Formula One to go electric 

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Podcast #42: President Obama's climate pledge, Beijing air pollution + Why mackerel is off the menu

This podcast includes the following stories:

1. President Obama's inaugural address
2. Why mackerel could be off the menu in Europe
3. NASA prepares to launch latest Earth-monitoring satellite
4. A global treaty to phase out mercury
5. BP to pay penalties totalling $4bn
6. Shell not responsible for oil leaks in Niger Delta
7. McDonald's to use sustainable fish
8. Beijing's air pollution goes off the scale 

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Podcast #41: Aussie bushfires, A setback for Shell's Arctic drilling plans + Your chance to be an astronaut

 This podcast includes the following stories:

1. Bushfires engulf southern Australia
2. Beached Kulluk drilling platform proves a major headache for Shell
3. Report: Half of the food produced on Earth is wasted
4. Transocean to plead guilty over Gulf oil spill
5. Kenya's largest ivory poaching massacre
6. Lake Ellsworth team downs tools
7. Ghana bans imports of fridges
8. Record price paid for bluefin tuna in Japan
9. Wanted: Volunteers to colonise Mars

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