The icy-white crust of Arctic permafrost is melting, and increased plant growth is turning the glacial north green. Metals like iron, once locked inside the ice, are leaching into hundreds of Arctic rivers, giving them an orange hue. Vivid changes may catch our eye, yet invisible shifts are also afoot. Microbes locked in the frozen ground since the age of the mammoths can now be revived when they thaw. We’re exploring the consequences of changes in permafrost, how AI may help us better understand Greenland ice loss, and get reactions from scientists about the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the premier climate and weather researcher centers in the world.

Guests:

Tristan Caro – Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological and Planetary Sciences Division, California Institute of Technology

Twila Moon – Glaciologist and deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, within the cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Abagael Pruitt – Biochemist and ecosystem ecologist, postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis

Karina Zikan – Glaciologist and snow hydrologist, PhD candidate at Boise State University

Roland Pease – Science writer and broadcaster often heard on the BBC World Service, and former presenter and host of its program Science in Action

Alan Sealls – Retired broadcast meteorologist, adjust professor at the University of South Alabama and president of the American Meteorological Society

Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake

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