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Science Talk

Journey to the Thawing Edge of Climate Change

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood. 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, visitacolkot.co.j.p.

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 YacLt.

0:32.2

Are you okay?

0:32.8

Yeah, no, I'm just looking around where everyone is.

0:34.6

I have to do that once in a while.

0:35.6

They look like they're... We had a bear almost walk into us the other day

0:38.3

because we're like staring at a thaw slump

0:41.1

and then we turn around and we're like, oh.

0:44.2

That'd be a grizzly bear there.

0:52.8

That's Steve Coakale.

0:54.9

And the reason he has to be on the lookout for Grizzlies

0:58.2

has everything to do with where we're standing right now.

1:09.0

We're in the Northwest Territories.

1:11.6

That's the Northwest Territories in the High Canadian Arctic.

1:15.6

Hey, I'm Josh Bentley, and I'm out here just north of the Arctic Circle

1:22.6

to take you on a journey to the thawing edge of climate change.

1:33.8

Over the next three episodes of science quickly, we'll be mucking around in a part of the world that's warming faster than just about any other.

1:37.5

Just a few years ago, the tundra here was frozen solid.

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