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A Geochemical History of Life on Earth

Humanity is conducting a giant chemistry experiment with Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, but is it really unprecedented? Justin Rowlatt tells the story of how our planet was made.

World Service,5 episodes

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5. The Anthropocene
Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?
30 Oct 2021,23 mins
4. The great chemistry experiment
What can the last 66 million years teach us about the consequences of climate change?
23 Oct 2021,23 mins
3. A series of unfortunate events
How a chemical element may have held evolution back for a billion years
16 Oct 2021,23 mins
2. When bacteria ruled the world
How two of the most important developments in our planet's evolution occurred
09 Oct 2021,23 mins
1. In the beginning
How did the continuous chemical reaction that we call "life" first begin?
02 Oct 2021,23 mins