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Threshold

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  • Threshold podcast: Stories of life on earth.
    Threshold podcast: Stories of life on earth.

Threshold is a public radio show and podcast that tackles one pressing environmental issue each season. We report the story where it's happening through a range of voices and perspectives. Our goal is to be a home for nuanced journalism about human relationships with the natural world.

Threshold  season two takes listeners to the Arctic. The region’s warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet -- and where most coverage of the area begins with ice sheets and polar bears, we’re starting with people. So we’re taking you on a circumpolar journey. We’re talking with scientists, whalers, linguists, reindeer herders, even Inuit rock stars — and we’re asking: what is the Arctic, what’s changing there, and why does that matter for all of us?

Starting October 1 at 7:00 p.m. on MTPR, season two of Threshold will explore the ways climate change affects the lives of people in all eight Arctic countries.

Subscribe to the podcast here: http://thresholdpodcast.libsyn.com/rss  or find Threshold on iTunes.

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Threshold S02 Episode Three: Impermafrost

By Amy Martin - Auricle Productions • Oct 10, 2018
The Arctic sun in Sweden
Amy Martin

All across the Arctic, frozen soil is thawing out. A lot of stuff is buried there -- plants and animals that lived more than 10,000 years ago. What happens when a Paleolithic bison bone starts to decompose for the first time? And what does that have to do with climate change?

Threshold S02 Episode Two: Invisible Hands

By Amy Martin - Auricle Productions • Oct 7, 2018
Shishmaref, Alaska.
Auricle Productions

When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, the town became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling into the sea showed up in news outlets around the world. But the story here starts way before that storm.

Threshold S02 Episode One: The Water Is Wide

By Amy Martin - Auricle Productions • Sep 25, 2018
Waves pound a seawall in Shishmaref, Alaska
Nick Mott

In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

Each season, Threshold explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season two is all about the Arctic: what it is, what’s changing there, and why that matters for everybody.

The Anatomy Of A Wildlife Podcast, At The International Wildlife Film Festival

By MTPR • Apr 17, 2017
Threshold podcast: Stories of life on earth.

Join Threshold podcast's Amy Martin at the International Wildlife Film Festival for a behind-the-scenes look at one of this year's most exciting podcasts. Amy will discuss some of her decisions as producer and editor of her podcast about the past, present and future of bison and people.

Threshold Episode 07: Oh Give Me A Home

By Amy Martin - Auricle Productions • Mar 16, 2017
Students in Gardiner, MT share their schoolyard with wildlife, including elk and bison.
Amy Martin

In the final episode of Threshold season 01, listeners will encounter pearls of wisdom from youth who have grown up with bison in their midst, and take a trip to the Oakland Zoo, which will soon receive buffalo from the Blackfeet tribe that will help jumpstart a conservation herd there. We also conjure the big ideas driving this first season - what's our future with this animal? How does that connect with our history? Can America ever have wild, free-roaming bison again?

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