The Race To Protect Millions Of People From Melting Glaciers

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes that can cause dangerous flash floods. Millions of people downstream are threatened.

In today's episode, NPR Climate Desk reporter Rebecca Hersher and producer Ryan Kellman take Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong to a community high in the mountains of Nepal where residents are on the front lines of this new climate threat, and explains how scientists are looking for solutions that can save lives around the world.

Check out the full series about how melting ice affects us all: npr.org/icemelt.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	On Shortwave this week, we are talking ice.
0:09.0	The surprising scientific connections between melting ice at the poles of our planet
0:14.0	and people's everyday lives around the world.
0:17.0	And today's story is all about melting glaciers.
0:20.0	Yeah, specifically about what happens to communities after a glacier melts.
0:25.0	You must walk as a penguin.
0:27.0	Like this?
0:28.0	Yes.
0:30.0	Hi.
0:31.0	I'm Rebecca Hershert and that's me, getting help from a trekking guide named Depesh Goshi.
0:37.0	If you walk fast, you get more tired.
0:41.0	Slow and steady.
0:42.0	Yes.
0:43.0	Okay, I can do that.
0:45.0	Walk like a penguin.
0:48.0	We were high in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal near 16,000 feet, with a team from NPR's climate desk,
0:55.0	including producer Ryan Keldon.
0:57.0	I'm not my legs full of tired now.
0:59.0	Some of these, yeah.
1:00.0	Nicely done you two.
1:02.0	You're working it.
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