The plastic tide and spewing in space!
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Peter Kohler is the founder and director of The Plastic Tide, a charity made up of ocean, science and tech enthusiasts obsessed with working out ways to keep our beaches and seas clear of marine litter and plastics. This week, he's chatting to Dan about how plastic is affecting our oceans, what we can do to help and using drones.
Plus Dangerous Dan is heading back 74,000 years to one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions ever, we're finding out how feeding birds in your garden may not be such a good idea and what happens if we spew in space!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Right, hello, yes, here we go again. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:15.3 | This is the show where we ask the three Ws. |
| 0:18.2 | Why do things happen? |
| 0:19.9 | Where do things happen? And when are we going to learn |
| 0:22.9 | about all the epic, amazing, dangerous stuff in a little bit? Because today, we're talking about |
| 0:27.8 | the most destructive volcanic eruption in the last two and a half million years. Also, I've got a way |
| 0:34.9 | that you can help save the world just by getting online, clicking a few buttons. |
| 0:39.1 | It's dead easy. |
| 0:39.9 | And next, we'll spin the fun kid's shout-out wheel, |
| 0:42.5 | see who's getting a hello on the show today. |
| 0:44.6 | First, let's catch up with Marina Ventura. |
| 0:47.0 | This is from her Climate Explorers series, |
| 0:49.9 | which she's telling us why the weather around us works the way it does. |
| 0:55.9 | Marina Ventura's Climate Explorers. |
| 1:00.3 | Hi there. |
| 1:01.7 | Marina Ventura here. |
| 1:03.4 | Now, as we've been finding out, when you hear the words weather and climate, |
| 1:08.0 | you might think they mean the same thing, but they're quite different. Isn't that |
| 1:11.7 | right, Mappy? Hi Marina. Yes, that's correct. It might be rainy today or it might be sunny. That's the |
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