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Welcome to the science podcast for August 28th, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week,

staff writer Paul Busen talks about new ways to lose sea ice. It turns out the rapid loss of

Arctic sea ice is not due to just hotter air, but also things like dangerous hot blobs of ocean water.

Next, Damien Fordham talks about how paleo archives of what happened to biodiversity

and ecosystems during different climate change scenarios in the past can help with prediction

and conservation under human-induced climate change.

And in our book segment, Kiki Samford talks with author Carl Bergstrom about his new book,

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