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Caption: Anna Cummins
After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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HOUR ONE: "Eye-To-Eye With Animals" - Have you ever locked eyes with an animal in the wild? It can be a shattering experience. HOUR TWO: "Going U...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we continue our journey at COP26 in Glasgow to see what the process for organizing a so...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 41:08
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This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we take you into the trenches of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to explore how the process...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 58:55
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After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 46:29
  • Purchases: 1
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and KSKA


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A polar bear ambles across a grassy plain just outside Kaktovik, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Robert Thompson, Kaktovik polar bear guide, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Vebjørn Aishana Reitan, polar bear guide and certified U.S. Coast Guard captain, on the refuge., Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Jack Hutton, Richard Ladkani, Cynthia Smith and Andrea Crota, Credit: Andrea Chase
Richard Ladkani, Jack Hutton, Cynthia Smith, and Andrea Crota talk symbols, hope, and the definition of extremist.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2019
  • Length: 23:03
Caption: A boat floats off the coast of Shishmaref, Credit: Nick Mott
What is the Arctic? Who lives there? How are their lives changing as the climate warms? In this Earth Day Special, we take listeners on a three-par...

Bought by KUT, Wyoming Public Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jim White is the director of INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder., Credit: Jim White
18 months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a lit...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Graduate student Ian MacDowell, undergrad Aidan Stansberry, and principal investigator Joel Harper at work on the Greenland ice sheet, Credit: Amy Martin
The Greenland ice sheet is basically a giant ice cube the size of Alaska. What happens when it melts? We spent five days camping out on the ice wit...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Parades are held across Russia on May 9 to commemorate the end of the war and to honor the 26 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives., Credit: Amy Martin
Half of the Arctic is in Russia, and half of Russia is in the Arctic. Oil, minerals, pollution -- it's a web of complicated environmental stories t...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Two men carry a Soviet flag, Credit: Amy Martin
Russia has more land in the Arctic than any other nation. It's also a regime that does not tolerate dissent. What does this mean for residents of M...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bowhead whale skull, Credit: Amy Martin
What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, ...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Richard Beneville, mayor of Nome, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
If there's one thing everybody's heard about the Arctic, it's that sea ice is melting, and that's bad news. But what's less well-known is that some...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
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Take a trip through the Norwegian archipelago, meet workers in the tourism industry, and get a glimpse of some charismatic Arctic megafauna. Plus, ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 18:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ulf Isak Aleksandersen is 10 years old, and speaks three languages: Norwegian, Sámi and English. , Credit: Amy Martin
After thousands of years of tradition, a shifting climate is forcing changes in the way Sámi families herd reindeer. But some climate solutions are...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Amanda Kernell, film director and screenwriter, Credit: Carla Orrego Veliz
Everyone's heard of Vikings -- their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinav...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A trombonist plays on installation day, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
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.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMPG and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A group of researchers collect data on methane releases from Arctic lakes and wetlands., Credit: Amy Martin
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...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, PRX Remix, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Winter storms are eating away at the island, but moving the whole community is expensive., Credit: Amy Martin
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 i...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5