What’s hidden in Arctic ice? - Brendan Rogers and Jessica Howard
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In June 2022, a gold miner in the Canadian Yukon made a remarkable discovery. While working on the traditional lands of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, he uncovered the exceptionally well-preserved, frozen remains of a wooly mammoth calf that died 30,000 years ago. And this find isn’t the only of its kind. Brendan Rogers and Jessica Howard uncover secrets buried in the Arctic permafrost.
Carbon emissions from thawing permafrost are largely left out of climate models that inform international assessment reports (e.g., IPCC), as well as estimated remaining carbon budgets that humans can emit to stay within thresholds such as 1.5 or 2°C global warming. What do you think the implications of this might be?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Jessica Howard, Brendan Rogers
- Director Denys Spolitak
- Narrator Susan Zimmerman
- Music Cem Misirlioglu, Greg Chudzik
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Senior Producer Anna Bechtol
- Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Script Producer Cella Wright
- Script Editor Charles Wallace
