Temperature Rising: Stories about forest fires

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Wildfires can impact so many things, from ecosystems to the air quality, to even the economy. But in this week’s episode, both of our storytellers take a look at the more personal impacts of forest fires. Part 1: In college, Nick Link almost burns down the entire neighborhood when he and his friends set some Christmas trees on fire. Part 2: After moving to America from Mumbai, Urvi Talaty feels like she has finally escaped the heavily polluted air that choked her as a kid. Nick Link is a second year PhD student at Northern Arizona University and part of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society. His research broadly focuses on wildfires - and how we can apply our scientific understanding of the ecosystem to protect communities across Alaska and the Yukon. Urvi Talaty is an environmental consultant and creates life cycle assessments and carbon footprints for clients. She is also a dancer, a poet and a self-proclaimed funny woman who likes to read and travel the world. Urvi holds a Master’s degree from Yale and a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an MBA in technology management from NMIMS University in Mumbai, where she is from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	A science story, huh?
0:36.7	Is NYU scientist the... I felt...
0:37.7	I was so...
0:39.0	And I just thought, well...
0:39.9	I figured it out.
0:41.0	It was that golden moment.
0:43.1	Because science was on my side.
0:50.1	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the story clutterider, where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human.
1:03.3	I'm your host, Mishigayevsky, and today's stories are all about forest fires.
1:07.4	Something we're starting to see more and more of as climate change impacts us.
1:11.5	Our first story is from Nick Link. Nick is a PhD student at Northern Arizona University,
1:16.1	where he researches wildfires. His story was recorded at Kit, Recital Hall,
1:20.4	in Flagstaff, Arizona for a special event in collaboration with writing class radio
1:24.5	in Northern Arizona University. Nick's story is a great reminder never to light a Christmas tree on fire.
1:31.7	But on a deeper level, it's all about how something seemingly small and dumb can come back and
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