The Green Planet by Leisa Stewart–Sharpe and Kim Smith, 2022. Puffin Books (an imprint of the Penguin Random House group of companies). Not so long ago I appraised The Green Planet by Simon Barnes. Although I had...
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Nigel Chaffey
How green is my planet?
Stunning images, like the TV programme, incredible facts, like the TV programme and the same referencing as the TV programme.
Experimental Eating in Food: Delicious Science
Food: Delicious Science connects food, science, and people compellingly. The stories is presents are a good resource for instructors and those looking for ways to deepen curiosity about food and plants. It may also...
Ian Street
Garlic and octopus battle tree disease
An allicin-based solution has been shown to treat trees infected with fungal diseases.
Bananas and their future on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg
Bananas are our favourite fruit: you can hear lots about them on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme, produced by award-winning BBC producer Emma Weatherill and presented by Sheila Dillon, a University of Leicester graduate...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
A bit of warmth and we all go bananas!?
In a warming world, could bananas really replace potatoes?
Attenborough’s at it (again)!
Finally, news of a new TV series written and presented by the world’s most famous natural history broadcaster and UK National Treasure, Sir David Attenborough. Sadly, it’s on a pay-per-view Sky Atlantic digital channel...
Prof. on the box
After his phytophyllic antics were revealed to the world last year, serial seriously scientific stuntsman Iain Stewart – our original ‘Prof. in a box’ – has done it again. Not content to use contemporaneously generated...
Prof. in a box
In the good old days of the late 18th Century in England it was considered the height of scientific enquiry for a polymath cleric to put a mouse in a bell jar to demonstrate that animals could be sustained by the...
Bigging up botany
Scott Bauer, USDA ARS. It being such a rare TV event these days, I have to ensure that everybody is aware of the recent series on BBC4 (a digital channel from the UK’s British Broadcasting Corporation), Botany: A...
Botany: A Blooming History
Last night at 9pm hell froze over – the BBC broadcast a programme about plant taxonomy on a mainstream TV network. Did you see it? I thought not, it was tucked away on BBC4. It was excellent and well worth...
AJ Cann