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Cold Comfort | 5 | Just Decide
Cold Comfort | 5 | Just Decide

Everyone's heard of Vikings -- their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinavia…

7 years, 2 months ago

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Cold Comfort | 4 | Becoming Arctic, Becoming Human
Cold Comfort | 4 | Becoming Arctic, Becoming Human

An eight-ton concrete ball and a 32,000-year-old needle collection. What's all this got to do with the Arctic? Find out on this episode of Threshold.…

7 years, 2 months ago

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Cold Comfort | 3 | Impermafrost
Cold Comfort | 3 | Impermafrost

All across the Arctic, frozen soil is thawing out. A lot of stuff is buried there -- plants and animals that lived more than 10,000 years ago. What h…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Cold Comfort | 2 | Invisible Hands
Cold Comfort | 2 | Invisible Hands

When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling int…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Cold Comfort | 1 | The Water is Wide
Cold Comfort | 1 | The Water is Wide

In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

 

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7 years, 3 months ago

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Cold Comfort | Preview
Cold Comfort | Preview

What is the Arctic, anyway? Like, is it the North Pole, or the south? Do penguins live there? Polar bears? What about people?

On Threshold Season Two,…

7 years, 3 months ago

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Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 9 |  The Long Game
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 9 | The Long Game

In this final extra for season one, you'll meet Vernon Finley, Chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Amy talked to him last April …

8 years ago

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Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 8 | Dustin Ranglack
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 8 | Dustin Ranglack

What does it feel like to run with a bison herd? Dr. Dustin Ranglack knows. He spent years studying one of the country's wildest herds in Utah's Henr…

8 years ago

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Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 7 | Preview and Review Featuring You
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 7 | Preview and Review Featuring You

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To learn more about the Gwich'in and the Arctic Nati…

8 years, 1 month ago

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Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 6 | Breaking News on the National Bison Range
Oh, Give Me a Home | Extra 6 | Breaking News on the National Bison Range

Today, the Missoulian is reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is planning to "change course" on the proposed transfer of the National …

8 years, 9 months ago

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