Using Waste for Fuel for Aircraft, Nature-Based Climate Solutions, and a Book on Indigenous Conservation | Science

First this week, Science Staff Writer Robert F. Service talks to producer Meagan Cantwell about sustainable aviation fuel, a story recorded in Science‘s special issue on climate change. Researchers have been able to develop this green gas from materials such as municipal waste and corn stalks. Will it empower air travel in the future?

Also in the special issue this week, Nathalie Seddon, a professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, talks with host Sarah Crespi about the value of working with nature to support the biodiversity and resilience of our ecosystems. Seddon emphasizes that nature-based solutions alone can not stop climate change – technological approaches and behavioral changes will also need to be implemented.

Finally, we have the second installment of our series of author interviews on the science of food and agriculture. Host and science journalist Angela Saini talks to Jessica Hernandez, an indigenous environmental scientist and author of Fresh banana leaves: healing of native landscapes through indigenous scienceHernandez’s book examines the failures of Western conservationism – and what we can learn about indigenous land management.

This week’s episode was produced using Podigy.

doi: 10.1126 / science.add6320