Dr. Emily Fairfax on nature’s rockstars the beavers.

Dr. Emily Fairfax on nature’s rockstars the beavers.

Author: Gemma Plumb & Aisling Creevey January 25, 2023 Duration: 51:01

Dr Emily Fairfax is an ecohydrologist. She is an expert in beavers and describes them as rockstars in climate mitigation.

Beavers are nature’s wetland creators, providing natural solution to droughts, wildfire risk as well as well as floods while also providing huge natural stores of carbon.

You will probably be as surprised as we were to find out that before human’s fully settled in North America the landscape was unrecognisable from the one we know today. There was a vast network of waterways with a beaver population of about 400 million, today they are trying to regrow they beaver population to between 10 and m 40 million.

There are so many amazing nuggets of information and after listening through you will find out where to find a beaver meadow and what a fossil beaver dam is.

We are sure you will leave this episode as a fan of beavers!

We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did. You can find Dr Emily Fairfax at https://emilyfairfaxscience.com .

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Thanks so much for listening and supporting the podcast and we hope you leave this episode loving the weather that little bit more.


Ever find yourself actually enjoying a rainy afternoon or wondering why a certain cloud looks the way it does? You're not alone. For the love of weather is the ongoing conversation between meteorologists Gemma Plumb and Aisling Creevey, who have spent over fifteen years forecasting across the UK. This podcast captures the kind of deep-dive chats they've been having for years, moving far beyond simple small talk. They pull back the curtain on what weather really means for our daily lives, drawing on a surprising range of experience. Their professional paths have seen them predicting conditions for everything from major music festivals and national rail networks to agricultural harvests and even ice cream demand, giving them a unique perspective on how the atmosphere connects to the ground beneath our feet. Each episode feels like sitting with two experts who are still genuinely fascinated by their subject, discussing the science behind a storm front, the challenges of a long-range forecast, or how a shift in the wind can change an entire industry's plans. It's a look at the patterns and stories in the sky, grounded in the reality of jobs, life changes, and a shared curiosity that hasn't faded. Tune in for a human take on the forces that shape our days.
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