10 Things to Know About - Season 9
Season 9
Episodes
Trees
In this episode we discuss how better land management and land planting trees is an essential part of our climate goals, we meet the researchers who are breeding trees to create better quality timber and tackle devastating diseases like ash dieback, and reflect on how literature can shape our views on trees and nature.
Ageing Well
In this episode, we examine how nutrition can help reduce age-related loss of muscle mass and strength, thereby reducing frailty. We'll hear about the causes of delirium and meet the researchers who want to raise awareness of the condition within healthcare to help reduce misdiagnoses with dementia. Finally, we investigate a disease that is so prevalent you could fill Croke Park with the people in Ireland who suffer from it. Age-related Macular Degeneration, or AMD, is the leading cause of blindness in Ireland. We catch up with the researchers who are working to find the causes of this disease and hope to develop cures for it.
Where You Live
When choosing where we want to live, we usually ask questions such as, how far you are to the local shops, whether there are any good schools nearby or if it's a long and arduous commute to the workplace. We rarely consider how the environment around where we live could affect our health. In this episode, it's all about Location, Location, Location.
Fungi
Fungi are an ancient form of life, existing long before the first amphibians, reptiles or mammals roamed the planet. There are estimated to be well over 1 million species of fungi worldwide – some can be poisonous and destroy trees, others can be very healthy to eat or can help crops absorb nutrients. Despite several mass extinction events, fungi are the one form of life that always survive, and in this episode, Jonathan investigates what ancient fungi can tell us about historical climate events and how studying them might help us predict what will happen in our planet's future due to climate change.
Oceans and Climate
In this episode, we investigate the Atlantic Ocean conveyor belt that moves warm water north and maintains Ireland's mild climate, check out the latest Irish research monitoring changes in the Gulfstream and Jonathan meet the scientists at Met Éireann who are using supercomputers to produce climate models that are essential to understanding the ongoing impacts of the climate emergency.
The Immune System
The human immune system is amazing, consisting of a variety of cells all working together to identify and destroy invading cells and protect our bodies from infection. Unfortunately, in some cases, the immune system is unable to distinguish one from the other and begins to attack healthy cells.
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