How Record Heat In Siberia Is Messing With...Everything

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Climate change and this year's weather patterns are behind the record-breaking heat in Siberia. NPR Climate Reporter Rebecca Hersher tells us how it's contributed to all sorts of problems there — mosquito swarms, buckling roads, wildfires. And we'll hear how these high temps are threatening the livelihoods of Indigenous Russians.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave.
0:03.4	From NPR.
0:05.6	Hello, Rebecca Herscher, NPR climate reporter.
0:08.5	Hello, Maddie Sophia, woman on a mission.
0:11.0	Did you know that I have been watching a lot of alarming videos lately?
0:15.9	I did not, and that's not what I expected you to ask me. Go on.
0:19.2	Okay, just bear with me. Can we listen to one of them?
0:22.1	Tch.
0:22.6	Pfft.
0:23.5	Pfft.
0:24.5	Pfft.
0:25.5	What does this sound like to you?
0:27.5	Uh.
0:29.5	Like the Blair Witch project?
0:31.5	A lot of shuffling. I don't know.
0:33.5	Uh, it's a good guess.
0:35.5	So it's the sound of someone walking through a swarm of mosquitoes.
0:40.5	Oh.
0:41.5	So many that they're like coating the wall of this shed.
0:44.5	Like they look like paint.
0:45.5	No.
0:46.5	Yes.
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