The global race to build icebreakers
The World
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4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The EU has awarded Finland around $105 million to help purchase a new icebreaker ship. It's part of a global race to expand fleets with the capacity to safely move through the Arctic as climate change opens up new pathways through the ice. Also, Houthi rebels strike two ships in the Red Sea. And, Palestinian Christians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say they’re facing “systematic attacks.” Plus, the Olavide Museum in Spain, which was founded in the late 19th century and contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous diseases, is set to close its doors.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the assignment with me, Audie Cornish. |
| 0:03.9 | The push to have bigger families and more babies is part of a movement called pro-natalism. |
| 0:09.6 | They are freaking out about declining global fertility rates. |
| 0:13.8 | And that is real. |
| 0:14.7 | It's a phenomenon called birth-death. |
| 0:17.4 | What's behind this push to start a new baby boom? |
| 0:20.8 | Who are the voices pushing for a more |
| 0:22.5 | pro-family America? And what exactly does that mean? Listen to the assignment with me, |
| 0:28.7 | Audie Cornish, streaming now on your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:44.5 | As ice melts in the Arctic, more ships are going there and it is getting more dangerous. |
| 0:50.0 | If you think of like one continuous ice sheet, it's very easy to know where it is, where it ends, and it doesn't really move around. But as the ice kind of starts to break up, you have random |
| 0:54.3 | icebergs or ice flows. |
| 0:56.1 | Enter the race to build ice breakers. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:00.1 | And I'm Marco Worm, and today how Finland is edging out the competition. |
| 1:03.9 | Also, what to make of recent hoothy attacks in the Red Sea. |
| 1:07.1 | Basically, the hooties are back to business. |
| 1:09.7 | And the director of a new movie about racial violence in 1970s, Rhodesia, is not afraid of blowback from audiences today. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm not worried. I bring it on. It's so strange to me that it seems to repeat and repeat. |
| 1:23.3 | Plus two words, airport, music. Coming up today here on the world. |
| 1:32.7 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:35.7 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for tuning in this Thursday. |
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