Using Resources

Episode 3 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart examines the situation in the 21st century, at which point the global consumption of oil...

Sustainable cities | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart visits Masdar in Abu Dhabi, a city that relies on renewable energy.

Carbon capture and storage | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates CCS, a process that is attempting to reduce carbon dioxide...

Nuclear energy and Thorium | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains how nuclear power works and investigates a new energy source.

Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.

Carbon dioxide levels | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart outlines the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Extracting oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the new technologies with which oil is being discovered and extracted.

North Sea oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the discovery of North Sea oil.

Caspian oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the impact of the Caspian oil.

Episode 2 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart looks back at the 1950s, a time when the oil and gas fields of the Middle East became a ...

How is oil formed? | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the natural process in which over millions of years oil is formed.

Episode 1 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transfor...

Carbon dioxide and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine demonstrates how increased burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution pro...

The Secret Science of Sewage | Horizon

George McGavin and Zoe Laughlin investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in sewage.

Greenhouse gases | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson investigates the key greenhouse gases.

Carbon footprint of a loaf of bread | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine discusses the carbon emissions from the process of baking a loaf of bread.

Climate refugees | Black Black Oil

Hundreds of millions of people are expected to migrate from their countries by 2050 due to rising sea levels.

Climate change in 50 years | Black Black Oil

Forecasts an extremely bleak future for the children of today where an unrecognisable landscape of the world is shaped by rising...

The future of North Sea Oil | Black Black Oil

How the future of the North Sea Oil rigs are being sold off to foreign state-run companies and what that means for the future o...

The world as a hydrocarbon-based infrastructure | Black Black Oil

Oil and gas companies maintain their products are necessary for the world to operate, however that view is ...