23 min
Carbon in the Ground 3: A landscape like butter Polar Pod
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Recorded during the UK's July heatwave, Sam and Roberta turn their thoughts north to cooler regions...We tend to think of Arctic regions as harsh, frozen, crisp, cold. But professor Marc Macias Fauria invites us to consider parts of the Arctic landscape differently. In summer, he suggests, it is like a landscape of butter.In this dynamic environment, the carbon locked up in frozen ground, or permafrost, is vulnerable. In episode 2, we looked at how carbon gets into the ground, and how the fre...
Recorded during the UK's July heatwave, Sam and Roberta turn their thoughts north to cooler regions...We tend to think of Arctic regions as harsh, frozen, crisp, cold. But professor Marc Macias Fauria invites us to consider parts of the Arctic landscape differently. In summer, he suggests, it is like a landscape of butter.In this dynamic environment, the carbon locked up in frozen ground, or permafrost, is vulnerable. In episode 2, we looked at how carbon gets into the ground, and how the fre...
23 min