Threshold

Series produced by Auricle Productions

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Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that tells captivating stories about people and the planet. Each season, we do a deep dive into one pressing environmental story, exploring it through the intersections of science, politics, culture, and environmental justice. We aim to make space for thoughtful, honest, and intersectional conversations about human relationships with the natural world.

Season 4: "Time to 1.5" documents this profound moment in human history, when the window for keeping global heating to 1.5ºC is still open—just barely.

Season 3: "The Refuge." The controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Season 2: "Cold Comfort." Climate change in the Arctic through the eyes of people who live there.

Season 1: "Oh Give Me a Home." Can we ever have wild, free-roaming bison again?


47 Pieces

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Caption: Bowhead whale skull, Credit: Amy Martin
What happens when the thing you can't live without in the short term threatens your very existence in the long run? Meet two whalers in Utqiagvik, ...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
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Caption: Two men carry a Soviet flag, Credit: Amy Martin
Russia has more land in the Arctic than any other nation. It's also a regime that does not tolerate dissent. What does this mean for residents of M...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Parades are held across Russia on May 9 to commemorate the end of the war and to honor the 26 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives., Credit: Amy Martin
Half of the Arctic is in Russia, and half of Russia is in the Arctic. Oil, minerals, pollution -- it's a web of complicated environmental stories t...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
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Caption: Iqaluit is the capital city of Nunavut, the largest territory in Canada., Credit: Nick Mott
All across the Arctic, indigenous languages are on the decline. But in many communities, people are finding new ways to reclaim both language and c...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
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Caption: Graduate student Ian MacDowell, undergrad Aidan Stansberry, and principal investigator Joel Harper at work on the Greenland ice sheet, Credit: Amy Martin
The Greenland ice sheet is basically a giant ice cube the size of Alaska. What happens when it melts? We spent five days camping out on the ice wit...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
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Caption: Jim White is the director of INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder., Credit: Jim White
18 months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a lit...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
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Remember the Sámi family from episode six? The Aleksandersens face threats to their reindeer herding from both climate change and climate change so...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2019
  • Length: 35:40
Caption: The sea wall, just like the coast, is gradually wearing away., Credit: Nick Mott
Promos for Threshold's one-hour Earth Day Special

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
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Caption: A boat floats off the coast of Shishmaref, Credit: Nick Mott
What is the Arctic? Who lives there? How are their lives changing as the climate warms? In this Earth Day Special, we take listeners on a three-par...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:31
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Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:57
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:56
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Caption: Vebjørn Aishana Reitan, polar bear guide and certified U.S. Coast Guard captain, on the refuge., Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Robert Thompson, Kaktovik polar bear guide, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sarah James on her four-wheeler in Arctic Village, Alaska, Credit: Amy Martin
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
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Caption: A polar bear ambles across a grassy plain just outside Kaktovik, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and KSKA


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: :32
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 1
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Humanity has a mission right now, whether we recognize it or not: to keep global heating to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 2.7 F) over pre...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:37
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After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 46:29
  • Purchases: 1