Hungry for another podcast to get your teeth/ears into? Look no further. The SAGES Climate Podcast is live! (It has been for quite a few months now… This is a belated plug!)

SAGES, the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society, was awarded funding from the Scottish Government’s Climate Engagement Fund to create a podcast series on climate change, where the fabulous Laura Young interviews a bunch of brilliant scientists over 11 episodes.  

It was treat to be involved in the Soil and Peat episode, alongside Professor Lorna Dawson, Principal Scientist at the James Hutton Institute, and Luisa Orci Fernandez, Hydro Nation Scholar and PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.

There are all sorts of topics discussed in the series, covering themes from the link between air pollution and environmental (in)justice, to national and international water use and water shortage stats, to carbon of the colour blue, to name a few. I’ve learnt about all sorts of topics I didn’t know constituted pressing ‘issues’, as well as (importantly) the excellent research and action being done to try to mitigate them. One of the key goals of the podcast series is to bring Scotland’s scientists one step closer to Scotland’s decision makers, to improve the flow of evidence towards change-making. Enjoy!