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We’re back for an all-new season with a new team! Our hosts sit down with an earth scientist and discuss the most recent developments in their field and how these discoveries impact all of us. This podcast is supported by the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto.
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Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
In this episode of Earth News Interviews, we discuss the events which added oxygen to our oceans and atmosphere. We get into the importance of oxygen for life, the stability of Earth's systems, and even the search for other planetary life.
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Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
In this episode of Earth News Interviews, we discuss scientific journals. What kinds of scientific papers get produced and what kinds of journals accept them? How might review journals be of use to aspiring undergrad and grad students? What is it like to have your work peer reviewed or be the reviewer?
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Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
In the episode of Earth News Interviews, we discuss the current COVID-19 pandemic and the surprising links between pathogens and the earth sciences. How can earth scientists contribute to the study of new outbreaks? Is there a link to climate change? How does land development and deforestation lead to disease? Tune in to learn all of this and more!
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Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
In this episode of Earth News Interviews, we learn about some of the ways gold can get collected in nature via chloride or bi-sulfide complexes. We also talk about the challenges of understanding these processes through modelling, and the extraction of gold in an environmentally and socially conscious way.
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Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
In this episode of Earth News Interviews, we discuss the surprising range of health and environmental consequences of small-scale mining operations in Peru. How does mercury affect human health? How does it get from a small mining operation to the bloodstream of people hundreds of kilometres away? Is there anything we can do?
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Gold mining with mercury poses health threats for miles downstream
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
In this episode we discuss the field of Economic Geology with Dr. Melissa Anderson. We touch on many timely questions concerning the role of this field in the next century: What have we learned from its history? What are the new frontiers of mining in practice and research? Why is mining so integral in our societies and our transition to a low-carbon future?
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The Future of Economic Geology
Mineral Resources and Sustainability: Challenges for Earth Scientists
Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
In our inaugural episode of Earth News Interviews, we get into a discussion about the K-Pg extinction event with geophysicist and extinction aficionado, Dr. Charly Bank. We learn about the discovery of a flood layer in North Dakota which may have been deposited in the first hours after impact, and find out what it can tell us about that fateful day.
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Astonishment, skepticism greet fossils claimed to record dinosaur-killing asteroid impact