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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Activists Around the World: Dr. Heidi Sevestre

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today we're talking about climate activist and glaciologist Dr. Heidi Sevestre.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.2

Hey, this is Annie.

0:10.4

And Samantha.

0:11.4

And welcome to Stuff on Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:29.7

And for this activist around the world, we wanted to bring someone who actually, we mentioned,

0:41.0

we did a very small blip in a 2024 episode that highlighted several different activists and scientists around the world. So I took a little more time.

0:45.2

I was like, you know what? Let's talk about this one a little more in depth and look at her work.

0:52.9

So from our earlier episode, here's a bit of information on her and who is her or she. We're talking about Dr. Heidi Sylvester, who is a climate activist.

0:57.3

She is a glaciologist who works at the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program,

1:01.9

a map, working group of the Arctic Council with a PhD from France who is a pioneer in researching

1:10.1

and studying glaciers around the world.

1:13.1

Dr. Sevastra has been bringing attention to the causes of climate change and its impact.

1:18.9

So she's a bad ass in general.

1:21.2

Everything that I've seen of her, I'm like, damn, damn, okay.

1:25.0

And here's some more information from her site, Heidi Sevestra.com.

1:28.8

I'm a glaciologist, fellow international of the Explorers Club, working at the Secretariat of Amap.

1:34.3

I am an avid science communicator and lead several expeditions to cold and icy places every year.

1:41.3

I say this should be a smenty episode where where we go on in an adventure, an expedition

1:48.0

with her, Annie. Listen, you know, part of the reason I have this job at all is I wanted to go

1:56.5

to Antarctica. I'm just saying, we talked about this at the very beginning. I think this is why she

2:01.7

came into mind when we did that episode in 2024, because you had talked about loving and wanting to

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