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| | | Costing the Earth tells stories which touch all our lives, looking at man's effect on the environment and at how the environment reacts. It questions accepted truths, challenges the people in charge and reports on progress towards improving the world we live in. | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN Ìý30 min | | | |
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'I really enjoy working on Costing the Earth, because it has the time to get its teeth into a subject and the resources to look at it critically. I hope it manages to say something new about most of the subjects it covers.'
Alex Kirby
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|  | | | Cara Hughes sieving for sea life. |
Hurricane Hope
Last September Hurricane Isabel ripped along the eastern seaboard of the United States killing nine people, flooding countless homes and plunging Washington DC into darkness. But can hurricanes actually be good for the environment? In this week’s ‘Costing the Earth’ Alex Kirby travels to Virginia to meet the scientists and naturalists out to prove that Mother Nature loves a hurricane.
Cara Hughes, a student from the University of Wales at Bangor was studying the life of the Virginia seashore when Isabel struck. Weeks later she returned to discover that dozens of new organisms such as worms, crabs and shellfish had appeared on the beach. But it’s not just the little beasties- everything from sea bass to rare birds seems to enjoy the sudden and violent disruption of a storm. | |  | | | Barry Truitt explains how hurricanes can benefit the coastal wildlife. |
As Alex discovers hurricanes can create new habitats, wipe out dominant predators like racoons and the imported English fox and, most importantly, drive human development away from the beachfront
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