On Thin Ice: Penguins in Paradise (Part 2)
Science Quickly
Scientific American
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:25.7 | For Scientific American Science Quickly this is Rachel feltman. |
| 0:29.6 | You're listening to part two of our Friday fascination miniseries all about Antarctica. |
| 0:36.7 | Last week we met award-winning Brazilian journalist Sophia Motino |
| 0:40.4 | aboard a US icebreaker called the Nathaniel B Palmer. |
| 0:44.0 | Today we'll follow her as she and her fellow passengers hit the ice, |
| 0:47.6 | literally disembarking onto one of the many ice flows that drift through the southern ocean. |
| 0:52.0 | They'll have to navigate tricky terrain and frigid temperatures |
| 0:55.0 | to collect samples of pristine ice, |
| 0:57.0 | which is crucial for helping scientists figure out |
| 1:00.0 | how the world's waterways will change |
| 1:01.0 | as our warming climate melts this region's |
| 1:03.7 | glaciers and ice shelves. But before we get into all that science and the hard |
| 1:08.8 | work that makes it possible, Sophia has some new friends to introduce us to. It's just so much for attitude. |
| 1:24.4 | It's just once in a lifetime these things. |
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