Episode 208: Sprung too Soon

<p>This episode explores new research, which has found that birds raise fewer young when spring arrives earlier in a warming world.</p> <p>--- Read this episode’s science poem <a href='https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3704/sprung-too-soon/'>here</a>.   Read the scientific study that inspired it <a href='https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221961120'>here</a>.    Read ‘Spring’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51002/spring-56d22e75d65bd'>here</a>. --- Music by <a href='http://smarturl.it/thepaperwaits'>Rufus Beckett</a>. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: <a href='mailto:sam.illingworth@gmail.com'>sam.illingworth@gmail.com</a>   Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/samillingworth'>@samillingworth</a>  </p> <p> </p>