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A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas 'Bomb' in the High Arctic

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.com.j.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:34.5

PSA will bring hiking boots when walking on a

0:40.1

Tundra. Your view will get stuck. It's like a wet sponge. We're almost there. About halfway.

0:51.3

Getting my ass handed to me. Well it's a lot faster with snowmobiles.

1:00.0

Hey, I'm Joss Bentley, and this is the final part in a three-part Science Quickly Fascination series from a fast warming Arctic.

1:10.0

Today, I'm heading to a place called

1:12.3

the Trail Valley Creek Research Station, high in the Canadian Arctic. I'm sloshing around

1:17.6

with Gabriel Hould Goslin. Gabriel is a research assistant for Wilfred Lorry University in

1:23.6

Ontario and the University of Montreal. We actually did his original interviews in French.

1:29.7

So you are listening to a combination of field audio and a new interview in English.

1:35.1

I brought you about 60 kilometers north of Inuvik,

1:39.2

which is a little town at the top of the northwest territories,

1:48.0

out near the Tukti Arctic Highway, in the tundra. We passed the treeline on our drive. No more trees, just a flat carpet.

1:54.0

Orange, red, and green tundra. It's unlike any landscape I've ever seen.

1:59.0

There's permafrost all over the place. It's super deep. It's unlike any landscape I've ever seen. There's permafrost all over the place.

2:01.6

It's super deep.

2:03.6

It's like 4 to 600 meters depending.

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