Amplified Arctic Amplification and Microclot Clues to Post-Viral Disease

BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Professor Anna Hogg joins us on today’s programme for some polar explorations, we speak to one team recalculating arctic warming estimates and another who are storm chasing in Svalbard. Antii Lipponen from the Finnish Meterological Institute talks us through how quickly the arctic is really warming and Professor John Methven and PhD student Hannah Croad from the University of Reading send greetings from Svalbard where they’re chasing arctic storms. Also, new evidence for a possible biomarker of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a condition associated with debilitating tiredness and brain fog similar to Long Covid. The microclots, described by Professor Doug Kell at the University of Liverpool and Professor Resia Pretorius of University of Stellenbosch, suggest a possible inflammatory cardiovascular element to the disease which might one day forge a path towards new treatments. And how can trees help us in a heatwave? Vic joined Dominik Spracklen from the University of Leeds on a stroll around a Cumbrian forest to explore the cooling potential of forests. Presented by Victoria Gill Reporter Emily Bird Produced by Alex Mansfield

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0:45.3	originally broadcast on the 11th of August 2022.
0:48.7	This week we're storm chasing in the Arctic with some intrepid airborne meteorologists.
0:53.6	We'll be finding out about blood clots that could reveal a path to treating chronic fatigue
0:57.8	or ME and long COVID.
1:00.4	And as the weather heats up again across a large part of the UK this week, I'll be finding
1:04.8	out why trees are even cooler than I thought.
1:07.8	But first I have an expert inside science guest this week, Professor Anna Hogg from the
1:12.2	University of Leeds, Polar Science Specialist.
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