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Planeteers' Podcast

6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -

Welcome to the Planeteers Podcast! A new podcast all about Climate Change and Earth Systems Science, from a (South) African perspective. Join us each week for news, exclusive interviews and just a little bit of silliness. The podcast is intended for anyone who would like to learn more about how the Earth works and is best enjoyed alongside our open online course as it follows many of the topics included there (https://sites.google.com/view/access-online-course/home).

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Episodes

Episode 5: The Season Finale

October 21, 2019 07:42 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB

Welcome to the season finale of the Planeteers podcast. In this episode, brought to you live from Vida E Caffe in Rondebosch. In this episode, we hear about the biological pump as a carbon sink and meet UKZN doctoral candidate Leeth Singh. The show is hosted by Carl Palmer and Precious Mahlalela. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Accesshpw/ References: University of Tasmania. "Solution to Ice Age ocean chemistry puzzle." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 October 2019. .

Episode 4: Cool as Ice, Double-G and SOLE

October 09, 2019 09:07 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

This week in the Planeteers podcast we take a look at icebergs breaking off Antartica and new calculations reveal the total amount of carbon in the Earth System. In the interview, Phakiso meets up with Thathai Mosikili from Vaal University of Technology. One minute science takes us into the Southern Ocean with Asmita. Then finally Science Theatre heads to Rome to meet the Pope and some guy with the stage name DOUBLE-G. Find out more by listening now. WARNING: Contains mild profanity.

Episode 3: Global strike, the boss gets the mic and much more to like...

September 25, 2019 08:37 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

Welcome to the 3rd episode of the Planeteers podcast. This week we discuss the global climate strikes, meet the ACCESS director (Dr Neville Sweijd), hear some Geology in OMS and meet Einstein.

Episode 2: Oceans, Alex and the lost continent

September 18, 2019 18:17 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

Welcome to the 2nd episode of the Planeteers' Podcast. This week we hear about the discovery of a lost continent, DC interviews Dr Alex Lenferna (350.org), science theatre takes us back in time and much more. Tell us what you think on our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/accesshpw/ Link to the article on the lost continent here: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-lost-continent-beneath-europe.html The studio team for the podcast were Carl Palmer, Precious Mahlalela and Asm...

Planeteers Podcast Teaser

September 03, 2019 00:00 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MB

Teaser for our new Planeteers Podcast series.

Episode 1: Forest fires, DNA liars and Deon Aspires....

September 02, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MB

The Habitable Planet Crew meet up to discuss this week in science, meet some Planeteers, hear about how the structure of DNA was discovered and talk about the Planets. What more do you want? Please find the discussion of the amazon fires referenced in the pod on our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/accesshpw/ The studio team for the podcast were Carl Palmer, Precious Mahlalela and Asmita Singh. This week's news was researched and presented by Precious Mahlalela. The Interview...