PODCAST: Life Under Water in the Oceans

Hannah Stitfall’s been getting updates from onboard the Arctic Sunrise, one of Greenpeace’s research ships, since the beginning of the series, from Panama where it set sail out into the Galápagos Islands marine reserve.

Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to how we view sharks. The Great White, we all know. But sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs,…

3 billion people rely on the oceans for their livelihoods. But who are they? What are their stories? Hannah Stitfall is moving away from the ocean’s wild animals this week,…

They’re like aliens from another planet. There are over 300 species and counting, from the size of your fingernail to 10 metres across. They live on the ocean’s surface, and…

Did you know that pretty much anything goes in international waters? Past a certain point, national jurisdiction ends and the wild west begins. There’s no police force for the ocean,…

The world’s longest mountain range is actually in the middle of the ocean – the mid-Atlantic ridge, at more than 40,000 miles long. But who knows about these mountains? How…

Antarctica is one of the harshest environments you can imagine. Winds can reach 200mph and the lowest temperature ever recorded was -89 degrees Celsius. But the monochrome above the waves…

Hannah Stitfall is asking all the questions you ever wanted to know about whales. Did you know they have culture? She’s joined by whale legend Hal Whitehead, whose close encounters with sperm whales and understanding of their culture has completely changed how we view these enormous animals.