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Threshold Podcast—Season 2, Episode 13: 'Try Harder'

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Winfred Obruk points to the lost beach in Shishmaref, Alaska, where the community's playground and fish-drying racks are now under water. The island faces rapid erosion due to the effects of climate change, and residents have voted twice to relocate. They are determined to move as a community, but while they try to navigate this costly and complicated process, the Chukchi Sea pushes ever-closer to their homes." Image by Nick Mott. United States, 2017.
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Season two of Threshold takes listeners to the homes, hunting grounds, and melting coastlines of...

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A Sámi bark peeling scar from 1821. Image by Amy Martin. Sweden, 2018.
A Sámi bark peeling scar from 1821. Image by Amy Martin. Sweden, 2018.

Eighteen months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a little and try to see the big picture.

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ARCTIC REPORT CARD

The Arctic Report Card is an annual, peer-reviewed source of information on the current state of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records. One of the significant findings from the 2018 report card is that Arctic air temperatures from 2014 to 2018 have exceeded all previous records since 1900.

MORE THAN SCIENTISTS: JIM WHITE

James White is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and the director of The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). Watch this short video in which he makes the argument that the issue of climate change is about ethics.

BARK PEELING, FOOD STRESS, AND TREE SPIRITS

The Sami people of northern Scandinavia and many indigenous peoples of North America have used pine inner bark for food, medicine and other purposes. This study co-authored by Lars Östlund compares bark-peeling and subsequent uses of pine inner bark in Scandinavia and western North America, focusing on traditional practices.

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