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The important role that trees play in clearing carbon dioxide.
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Professor Iain Stewart explores the industrial history of coal production in Scotland.
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An experiment that demonstrates the greenhouse effect.
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Professor Iain Stewart explores the history of oil in Scotland.
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Professor Iain Stewart discusses wind power in Scotland.
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Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.
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How Benson and Calvin established the biochemical reactions involved in photosynthesis.
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Scientists harnessing the processes in photosynthesis.
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How botanists made the connection between a plant's growth and the energy from the sun.
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Stefan Gates reveals how we can see photosynthesis in action using some simple props.
Photosynthesis | Curriculum Bites
Photosynthesis research by Jan Ingenhouz | Botany: A Blooming History
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Photosynthisis | Bitesize Science
Photosynthesis is essential to life on this planet.
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Series telling the story of how the development of civilisation was influenced by planetary forces. Professor Iain Stewart explores the rol...
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Eurasia | Rise of the Continents
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami | Volcano Live
Demonstrations of what happened to cause the earthquake and then tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004.
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Iain Stewart explains what caused the Boxing Day Tsunami and discusses its devastating impact.
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