Green Spring Clean: Greener Homes

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As the UK announces the world's most ambitious target for cutting carbon and enshrines it in law, we're looking at how to improve the green credentials of one of the country's largest carbon contributors: the homes we live in. Plus, as India sees covid cases hit more than 300,000 a day, is the emergence of a variant there - and its detection here - cause for concern? And, the coffee species lost for 70 years and now rediscovered... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running,
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0:05.8	Welcome.
0:06.8	This is the show where we bring you science.
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0:17.8	Hello, welcome to the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine with Katie
0:24.0	Haler and Chris Smith. And this week as the UK announces the world's most
0:27.8	ambitious target for cutting carbon and enshrines it in law we're looking at how to improve the green credentials of one of the largest carbon contributors, the houses that we live in.
0:38.6	Plus, as India sees COVID cases hit more than 300,000 a day is the emergence of a variant there and its
0:46.4	detection here cause for concern.
0:49.2	And the coffee species lost for 70 years and now rediscovered.
0:54.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. India is in the grip of a devastating second wave of COVID-19. The number of documented new cases now exceeds
1:17.0	300,000 per day. And main hospitals, even in Delhi, are running out of oxygen.
1:23.4	And that's assuming patients can get a bed in hospital in the first place,
1:27.1	because there are none left.
1:28.6	The tragedy echoes the ongoing situation in Brazil,
1:32.4	thought to be fueled there by the P1 variant and leading some
1:35.9	to speculate that the emergence of an Indian variant could be to blame.
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