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September 19, 2019
Threshold Podcast—Season 2 Extra 03: 'What Have You Done for Me Lately?'
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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.](/sites/default/files/11-16-17/170815_04111_raw_ngm.jpg "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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Cold Comfort
Season two of Threshold takes listeners to the homes, hunting grounds, and melting coastlines of...
In this special extra episode of Threshold, host Amy Martin and her team take you on a journey into a permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. It's called "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" and yes, that is most definitely a Janet Jackson reference.
The permafrost tunnel is sort of a Paleo-museum — a network of human-made caves, full of mammoth tusks, bison horns and clumps of 20,000-year-old grass. All of which is frozen. For now.
Janet Jackson, of course, is the queen of many things, including the fine art of shrugging one's shoulders in time to an irresistible beat.
