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EarthDate is a weekly podcast providing a fun and informative interlude for listeners which focuses on the workings and complexity of our planet – its geology, its environment, and its major geologic events, both distant and more recent.

12/08/2025

Advanced speech was thought to be reserved for the higher intellect of humans, but new research, with the help of AI, suggests that some whales might also exhibit complex language. Today's EarthDate episode tries to translate. Hear it at: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/whale-words

05/08/2025

New evidence suggests that the Earth may have once had rings similar to other planets in our solar system. Today's EarthDate episode investigates how Earth's rings may have come to be. Learn more about the theory here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/did-earth-have-rings

29/07/2025

Plastic pollution poses a grave threat to the fish, birds, and mammals that inhabit ocean ecosystems. Today's EarthDate episode raises the alarm about this growing global challenge. You can hear it at: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/ocean-plastic-pollution

22/07/2025

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are considered to be the closest environment to Mars on Earth. Despite this, microorganisms thrive. Today's EarthDate episode looks at these organisms for clues to how life on other planets might survive. Listen here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/antarctic-dry-valleys

18/07/2025

The hypodermic needle hasn’t evolved much since the first successful injection by Francis Rynd in 1844, and despite improvements to hollow needles over time, the jab is usually painful. To avoid detection and death, the mosquito has evolved its jab over millions of years to the point that it is painless by developing a complex system of six “needles.” Scientists are using biomimicry to lessen the pain of injections by imitating the stealthy bite of the mosquito. Today's EarthDate episode is bitten by the stealthy mosquito. Listen here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/mosquito-inspired-injections

15/07/2025

Cappadocia in central Turkey is renowned for its fairy chimneys. These formations are not only natural wonders but also served as shelters and fortifications for centuries. Today's EarthDate episode travels to explore this fascinating region. Join us at: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/lost-underground-city

11/07/2025

Humans use string so regularly that we tend to take it for granted. String is a simple tool that can be strengthened by twisting or braiding into twine and rope. String also can be woven into textiles. Hominids began using string during the Paleolithic age, along with stone tools. String was used to fasten stones to spears for hunting and fishhooks to lines for fishing. Ropes lashed together shelters and rafts. Cords held mobile containers together, freeing up hominid arms for other purposes. String, like stone tools, created an instrumental advantage for us. Today's EarthDate episode ties up all the loose ends from the history of string. Hear it at: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/the-thing-about-string

08/07/2025

Amber, or fossilized plant resin, has the ability to preserve ancient life forms, from tiny insects often lost in the fossil record to feathers. Today's EarthDate episode discovers these ancient fossils frozen in time. Listen to it here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/frozen-in-time

03/07/2025

Archaeologists recently discovered the world’s most ancient water purification system. Centuries before Asian and European cities developed methods to clean water, the Maya city of Tikal in modern Guatemala used natural zeolite minerals for water purification and quartz sand for water clarification. For nearly 1,000 years, these systems provided Tikal’s population with safe drinking water, until the city’s decline around AD 900. Today, the same concepts and minerals are used in swimming pool filtration. Today's EarthDate episode remembers this remarkable use of geological knowledge. Listen here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/maya-water-purification

01/07/2025

In 2003, scientists were surprised to discover a diminutive species of hominin on the island of Flores near Java. Today's EarthDate episode joins archeologists in deciphering the complex diversity of ancient human species. Hear about the research here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/real-life-hobbits

27/06/2025

Stripes of opposing magnetic polarity discovered on the seafloor in the middle of the 20th century led to a couple of amazing scientific realizations: The seafloor was constantly being generated by basalt emplacement along spreading ridges, and like a tape recorder, iron minerals in the basalt had been recording reversals in the orientation of Earth’s magnetic field over millions of years. Hundreds of magnetic episodes are now documented. Some lasted thousands of years, while others lasted tens of millions of years. The most recent reversal followed a couple of “failed attempts” over the course of 22,000 years before flipping to today’s orientation 773,000 years ago. Understanding past events like this flip is critical to our modern civilization. Today's EarthDate episode recounts these magnetic shifts. Listen here: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/earths-flipping-poles

24/06/2025

Every night all around the world vast numbers of aquatic animals migrate from deep waters to the surface. We are just beginning to understand why this happens. Today's EarthDate episode tracks the nightly "great migration". Hear it at: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/earths-greatest-migration

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