In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Defense of Plants
4.8from 2,233 ratings
- 595
- Episodes
- 116
- Transcribed
- 2,233
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 936K
- YouTube views
About In Defense of Plants Podcast
Plants are everything. They are also incredibly interesting. From the smallest duckweed to the tallest redwood, the botanical world is full of wonder. Tune in for a podcast celebrating everything botany.
- Publisher
- In Defense of Plants
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
116 of 595 episodes have a transcript.
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 596 - A Carboniferous Video Game?!
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 595 - Disrupt Plants, Disrupt Life: A Climate Change Story
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 594 - Of Orchids & Woodpeckers
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Ep. 596 - A Carboniferous Video Game?!
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I mean, it must have felt like opening a door into its own country of libraries on not just the plants themselves, but the ecosystems they were a part of. Yeah. And I feel like, so the Carboniferous, you know, it was originally named because of coal. And right up until about a month and a half ago, I thought the Carboniferous was just swampland. And that's all that there was because there's so much coal from the Carboniferous, specifically in England and in the eastern side of North America, that that's really where a huge publication bias has come from. So there definitely is other stuff. But because coal is so common and it preserves things so well, and so much of the coal that was economic early on is from the Carboniferous, there's so much research about it. […]
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- Meaghan Wetherell
- Regan Dunn
- Sam King
- Melissa McCormick
- Richie Hodel
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 935,975
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,260 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 973 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 91 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 94
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