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  • Episode 50: Mangroves, Drones, and Data

    September 25, 2025 · 43 min

    In a few week’s time the 30th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Belém, Brazil. While the world is making progress on cutting the carbon emissions that cause climate change, there is much work still to be done.Even if the…

  • Episode 49: Adding Autonomy to ROVs

    August 28, 2025 · 37 min

    Artificial Intelligence is developing at a dizzying pace. One day soon, its proponents promise, it will revolutionise the way we work. The growth of AI could lead to the birth of ‘cobots’, robots able to collaborate safely with humans in…

  • Episode 48: Remote Operations in Commercial Space

    July 31, 2025 · 49 min

    Some time ago, in an office quite far away, Tim Crain, vice president of R&D at Intuitive Machines, joined Jon Baston-Pitt for an episode of Planet Beyond, alongside Fugro’s Dawn McIntosh and Sam Forbes. In that episode, first aired in…

  • Episode 47: Innovation in Offshore Wind Biodiversity

    June 26, 2025 · 28 min

    Over three episodes, we’ve been learning about ways to maintain, and even improve, biodiversity around offshore wind farms. We’ve heard how the industry is helping to shape biodiversity policy. We’ve talked to researchers who are…

  • Episode 46: Best Practice for Offshore Wind Farm Biodiversity

    May 29, 2025 · 34 min

    Offshore wind farms promise to provide much of the clean power needed for the energy transition. But in their construction and operation, they interact with wildlife above and below the water. In this episode, the second of three on…

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  • Episode 45: The Future of Carbon Capture

    April 24, 2025 · 43 min

    Decarbonisation is vital to maintaining a safe and liveable world. Much of the carbon that human industry emits can be avoided through the use of renewable energy and other new technologies. But not all carbon can be handled in this…

  • Episode 44: Biodiversity and Policy Setting in Offshore Wind

    March 27, 2025 · 39 min

    Offshore wind farms are key to supplying the energy the world needs, sustainably and reliably. We know they are vital to meeting our decarbonisation goals; but we don’t fully understand their impact on ecosystems. With thousands of…

  • Short: Leon Koning – Back on Dry Land

    March 13, 2025 · 18 min

    In December, Planet Beyond talked to Leon Koning about his ambitious plans to cross the Atlantic with three teammates as Team Row4Cancer, part of the World’s Toughest Row. He set out with four goals: getting to the finish line, beating the…

  • Episode 43: The Mental Groundwork of Infrastructure

    February 27, 2025 · 37 min

    Infrastructure projects transform our world. Our ability to travel and to work, our individual health and our community cohesion, are all built upon the successes of infrastructural engineering. But these projects routinely underperform…

  • Short: Dan Smith – A Career with Impact

    February 13, 2025 · 19 min

    How can you build a career with impact? Dan Smith has a simple rule: ‘Follow your interests—when you look back, it will look like you had a plan’. Dan’s first interest was in cooking, and he started his career as a chef. But when he…

  • Episode 42: Samsø’s Community-Led Energy Transition

    January 30, 2025 · 35 min

    Samsø, a small Danish island, with a population of just 3,700, has revolutionised its energy landscape. Chosen in 1997 by the Danish government as a social innovation project, the Samsø community has since developed wind farms, solar…

  • Short: Jessica Pacifico — Bringing Out the Best in People

    January 16, 2025 · 26 min

    Throughout her career, Jessica Pacifico has always chosen the hardest path: learning Latin at high school, achieving a master’s degree in chemical engineering, then switching to IP law and studying, initially, in Dutch, a language that she…

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About the show

Welcome to the Planet Beyond podcast. Brought to you by Fugro, the leading partner in uncovering geo-data from the greatest subsea depths right to outer space and hosted by Jon Baston-Pitt. Planet Beyond is about doing business better in our fast changing, and acutely delicate, yet exquisite, world. Together we will explore issues beyond the day-to-day challenges; listen to those who should be listened to; seek out what needs to be done and get aligned around the new tomorrow our children deserve and that we have a responsibility to deliver.