To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we've got six special episodes of our Bytesize Science podcast. Check them out below:
Episode 1: Plants—The Energy-Capturing Machines
A huge amount of plant material is produced every year when plants die or are harvested. In this podcast, we find out how scientists are using all of this plant matter to make useful biofuel.
Episode 2 and 3: Defensive Plants Make Medicines
A huge amount of plant material is produced every year when plants die or are harvested. In this podcast, we find out how scientists are using all of this plant matter to make useful biofuel.
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Episode 4: Phytoremediation
Plants are amazing cleaning machines, and scientists are using them to pull pollutants right out of the ground using a technique called phytoremediation.
Episode 5: Plants – the Green Machines
Learn all about the plant “machinery” behind photosynthesis, the process of how plants make their own food.
Episode 6: Plants — The Hardcore Cleaning Machines!
Don’t let the Pennycress plant’s wimpy name fool you — this flowery little plant is known as a “hyperaccumulator,” which can suck up toxic amounts of heavy metals and help clean up polluted land.
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