Episode 181: Deep-sea Soot

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that up to one a half million tonnes of carbon, soot, and other particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches every year.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3634/deep-sea-soot/'>here</a>.   </p> <p>Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JG006814'>here</a>.</p> <p>Read 'Ocean of Earth' by Guillaume Apollinaire <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58343/ocean-of-earth'>here</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>.</p> <p>---</p> <p>Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:</p> <p>Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p>