This episode explores new research, which has found that combustion from gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the toxic chemical benzene.

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This episode explores new research, which has found evidence of the first prehistoric wind instruments.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that night-time pollinators such as moths may visit just as many plants as bees.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that global flash droughts are expected to increase in a warming climate.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that current measures to protect grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are damaging the ecosystem and should be stopped.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that coastal lights trick coral reefs into spawning earlier than they should.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that bird species body size may predict the rate of climate change.

This episode explores new research, which has found that air pollution exposure is associated with an increased risk of irregular heartbeat.

This episode explores new research, which has found that water arsenic is linked to higher urinary arsenic totals among the US population.

This episode explores new research, which has found that the diversity of present tree species is shaped by climate change in the last 21,000 years.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.   

Read ‘Native Trees’ by W.S. Merwin here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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