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Russia acknowledged that 'several aircraft caught fire' following Ukraine's attacks on its air bases in Murmansk & Irkutsk, in the Russian Arctic and eastern Siberia.

In the second episode of our three-part series on WCS's REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we go behind the scenes to uncover the inspiration behind this inaugural event celebrating remarkable filmmakers and extraordinary wildlife stories from around the globe.    From Namibia's resilient desert lions to a massive annual walrus gathering in the Russian Arctic, this year's lineup aims not only to captivate audiences but also to spark meaningful conservation action. Hannah Kaplan has this report.   Get your tickets for The REEL WILD™ NEW YORK Film Festival: reelwild.org   Reporting: Hannah Kaplan Guests: Natalie Cash, John Calvelli 

This week's guest is Dr Charlotte Wrigley, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has a mixed academic background, but her PhD (at Queen Mary University in London) was in human geography. Her research expertise concerns the arctic, extinction, and climate change. We talk about mammoths, and especially Charlotte's beautifully named book Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic, which was released in 2023 by University of Minnesota Press. This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press.

Guest host Alex Guye asks independent defence analyst Ken Hansen how much Canada should worry about Trump's efforts to pull the US away from its traditional allies, and towards Russia. And they listen to a minute of US Vice President JD Vance scolding Europeans at a security conference in Munich.

A year after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Oscar-winning documentary producer of the 2022 film "Navalny" has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her memories of him. Odessa Rae spent over three months living with the Russian dissident in Germany following his 2020 poisoning as she tracked his life to make the film. Navalny died just over a year ago in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic in circumstances that remain unclear. Speaking to us in Perspective, she called Navalny "one of the most extraordinary humans that I have ever met."

Ken Hansen is a former naval commander, and a former chair of the Maritime Studies Program at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He speaks with Mainstreet host Jeff Douglas.

On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before the election that enthroned Vladimir Putin for another six years of near-absolute power. Within days of Navalny's death his wife Yulia Navalnaya rose up, spoke out and vowed to continue her husband's struggle. A decade ago The Kitchen Sisters were in Moscow reporting for our NPR series Hidden Kitchens: War and Peace and Food. We were at lunch with writer, television journalist and government critic, Victor Erofeyev and asked what his hidden kitchen was. “Dissident Kitchens,” he said. “The Soviet Union fell apart because of the kitchen.” We started digging. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, millions of people poured into Moscow from the countryside, many living crammed together in the appropriated grand apartments of the wealthy — a single, communal kitchen shared by the ten or so families squeezed together under one roof. Spaces were crowded, food scarce, privacy nonexistent. After Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev came to power. His new Soviet government built hundreds of huge standardized apartment buildings with single family units, each with their own kitchen. These new, private kitchens became hotbeds of politics, forbidden music, literature – "dissident kitchens" where the seeds of ending the Soviet Union were sewn. Just as Victor Erofeyev told us over lunch. Today, in honor of Alexei Navalny and in honor of Victor Erofeyev, who fled Russia with his family after the invasion of Ukraine, The Kitchen Sisters Present: Dissident Kitchens.

Summary: In this episode, Justin and Adam chat with Dr. Jonathan Reisman about hunting, cooking, and eating offal and organ meats. They discuss the incorporation of organ meat into diets and highlight the nutritional value of organs and the unique nutrients they provide. Dr. Reisman shares his journey into butchering and cooking organs, his passion for hunting, and how hunting has allowed him to explore various organ meats. They also address the myth that organs are dangerous to eat and advocate for the reintroduction of lung consumption, which is currently illegal in the US. The conversation emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with the source of our food and exploring traditional food consumption. They discuss different organs' unique textures and flavors, such as lungs, kidneys, and sweetbreads. They also touch on the importance of proper handling and care of organs to ensure optimal taste and safety. They discuss the need for better anatomical diagrams, education around organ meats, and the growing interest in nose-to-tail eating. Dr. Reisman also mentions his Anatomy Eats dinners, where he combines his knowledge of anatomy with culinary experiences. - Leave a Review of the Podcast - Buy our Wild Fish and Game Spices Guest: Jonathan Reisman, M.D., is a physician, author, and adventurer. His interests include anatomy, food, travel, nature, wilderness, and prehistoric crafts. He has practiced medicine in some of the world's most remote places, including Antarctica, Arctic Alaska, the Russian Arctic, the Himalayas of Nepal, rural Appalachia, the urban slums of Kolkata, India, and on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He is the co-creator of the anatomy-based dinner series Anatomy Eats, which explores human anatomy through cuisines worldwide using offal, internal organs, and other unusual body parts. Visit Dr. Reisman's website Visit Anatomy Eats Instagram Takeaways: Organ meat, such as liver and heart, is packed with nutrients and can be a healthy addition to one's diet. Social media platforms like Instagram are great resources for finding creative and innovative ways to incorporate organ meat into meals. There is a misconception that organ meat is dangerous to eat, but as long as it is not toxic, it can be consumed safely. The sale and consumption of lungs are currently illegal in the US, but efforts are being made to overturn this rule. Reconnecting with the source of our food and exploring traditional food consumption can lead to a greater appreciation for organ meat. Organ meats have unique textures and flavors that can be enjoyed properly. Proper handling and care of organs is essential for taste and safety. Hunting provides access to a wide variety of organ meats. There is a need for better anatomical diagrams and education about organ meats. Nose-to-tail eating is gaining popularity as people explore different parts of the animal. Anatomy Eats dinners combine anatomy education with culinary experiences. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Discussion of Organ Meat 19:31 Exploring the Nutritional Value of Organ Meat 25:04 Tips for Incorporating Organ Meat into the Diet 29:37 Misconceptions about Organ Meat 35:40 Advocating for the Reintroduction of Lung Consumption 36:14 Reconnecting with the Source of Our Food 36:24 Exploring the Unique Textures and Flavors of Organ Meats 44:09 The Importance of Proper Handling and Care of Organs 52:13 Hunting as a Gateway to Trying Different Organ Meats 59:28 The Need for Better Anatomical Diagrams and Education 01:05:02 The Rise of Nose-to-Tail Eating 01:05:44 Anatomy Eats: Combining Anatomy Education with Culinary Experiences Keywords: organ meat, nutrition, misconceptions, lung consumption, traditional food, organ meats, textures, flavors, handling, care, hunting, anatomical diagrams, nose-to-tail eating, Anatomy Eats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his 52 years of work, actor Charles Dance has travelled from the Russian Arctic to far East Asia. This week, he reveals his 6 travel secrets and the many stories that go alongside them.Charles shares with Tanya Rose why he gets emotional thinking about Venice, why his favourite restaurant experience is actually in London and his favourite street in Bologna. Don't forget to follow @travelsecretsthepodcast and remember, you can watch all of our episodes on YouTube.PLACES MENTIONED:Venice, ItalyBologna, ItalyIndiaThe Arlington, LondonCorfu Formentera, Balearic Islands Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pavel Devyatkin, a senior associate at the Washington-based Arctic Institute, explains in this podcast episode the Arctic's significance, the Russian Arctic strategy, the impacts of climate change, and the role of the Arctic Council. Devyatkin highlights Russia's goals in the Arctic, including resource extraction and the management of the Northern Sea Route. The episode also covers Russia's socio-economic interests tied to oil and gas resources, challenges and opportunities presented by climate change, and the Northern Sea Route's development. Devyatkin mentions Russia's cooperation with China and other international partnerships and how territorial claims and disputes in the region are managed within international law, emphasizing the Arctic Council's role in fostering cooperation despite geopolitical tensions.

The family of the deceased Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, is locked in a grim battle with the Russian authorities over the politician's body. Lyudmila Navalnaya, Mr Navalny's mother, has been making efforts to recover the remains of her deceased son since last Saturday, directly at the prison colony in the Russian Arctic where Navalny died. She confirmed that she was allowed to see her son's body and was shown a medical report that said Navalny died of natural causes. Meanwhile, Yulia Navalnaya, the late opposition leader's widow, has vowed to continue her husband's work to challenge Putin's autocratic rule. How well known is Navalnaya in Russia? Does she have a chance to unite the opposition in Russia and abroad?Guest: Julia Ioffe - American journalist, founding partner and Washington correspondent of Puck Článek a další informace najdete na webu Seznam Zprávy.Sledujte nás na sociálních sítích X (Twitter), Instagram nebo Threads. Náměty a připomínky nám můžete psát na e-mail zaminutusest@sz.cz

Alexei Navalny's death Friday in a Russian Arctic prison continues reverberating around the globe. World leaders, including President Biden, spoke Monday of stepped-up sanctions against Russia as Navalny's widow picked up his fight against Vladimir Putin. Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and Center for European Policy Analysis senior fellow, joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Alexei Navalny's death Friday in a Russian Arctic prison continues reverberating around the globe. World leaders, including President Biden, spoke Monday of stepped-up sanctions against Russia as Navalny's widow picked up his fight against Vladimir Putin. Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist and Center for European Policy Analysis senior fellow, joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity that affects both life and nonlife on earth. With a look at the coldest regions in the world, Wrigley examines the wild new economies and mitigation strategies responding to thawing permafrost, including such projects as Pleistocene Park, Colossal, and Sooam Biotech, and offers a new angle on extinction through the concept of discontinuity. Here, Wrigley is joined in conversation with Pey-Yi Chu.Charlotte Wrigley is a postdoctoral researcher at The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is author of Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic.Pey-Yi Chu is associate professor of history at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She is author of The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science. PUBLICATION REFERENCES:The Life of Permafrost / Pey-Yi ChuOnce Upon the Permafrost / Susan CrateThe Breath of the Permafrost / Nikolai Sleptsov-SylykCryopolitics / Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, editorsPLACES REFERENCED:-Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian region of the Sakha Republic-Chersky, Arctic port in the Sakha District on the Kolyma River-Permafrost bank on the Kolyma called Duvanny Yar-Pleistocene Park in CherskyPEOPLE MENTIONED:-Sergey and Nikita Zimov, geophysicist and son behind Pleistocene Park project-George Church of Harvard University, behind the business Colossal-Hwang Woo-Suk (Sooam Biotech), biotechnology expert and veterinarian who claimed to clone human embryonic cells and does work in Yakutsk with mammoths.-Stewart Brand, environmentalist and founder of the Long Now Foundation, known for quote: “We are as gods, so we have to get good at it.”More about the book: z.umn.edu/EarthIceBoneBlood

216# Russian lake people | genetic mistakes or aliens? On this week's show...   We, venture into the waters of the Russian Arctic, the Baltic Sea, and the vast network of rivers and lakes that adorn the Russian landscape. Here, we will delve into a realm that is shrouded in secrecy, where legends of mythical creatures have endured for centuries. Or a product of genetic experiments? All we can say for sure is, Russia's aquatic ecosystems are teeming with fascinating and unique inhabitants.  This weeks episode is brought to you buy our sponsor Hivemind clothing a Manchester based clothing line that has some excellent designs using eco-friendly materials, plants trees and even offers free postage, we love this company and recommend you have a look at there on line store. So if you're looking for cool unique designer tees head over to hive mind Manchester. Link in the description.  ⁠https://hivemindmcr.teemill.com/⁠ Join Audible for a free trail and GET A BOOK FREE ⁠https://amzn.to/3COojbo⁠ MERCH STORE Our new merch is available on tee public! stickers, buttons, mugs and masks all with our sweet new design! #MERCH #Sales #NASAScience #PodernFamily #teepublic ⁠https://teepublic.com/en-gb/t-shirt/21303964-nasa-beam-me-up…⁠ GET YOURS TODAY! CONTACT US!! Get in touch! Have a question for us or a comment or suggestion you can email us neverstraightanswer@gmail.com Website Neverastraightanswer.co.uk Email Neverstraightanswer@gmail.com ⁠NEVERASTRAIGHTANSWER.CO.UK⁠ Spotify ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0noBaIL4CkiSrjESHAY3lkhttps://linktr.ee/Neverastraightanswer⁠ #podcastinglife #podcastlove #applepodcast #podcast #newpodcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcastlife #podcasts #podcasters #podcaster #spotifypodcasts #podcastnetwork #newpodcast #podcastmovement #podcastaddict #podcastersofinstagram #spotifypodcast #podcastshow #applepodcast #podcasts #aliens #ovnis #flyingsaucer #ufosightings #ufologia #extraterrestrials #ufos #ufology #extraterrestrial #ufosighting #EternalAtake #liluzi #EAGrief #extraterrestrial #extraterrestrials #ufo #ufos #ufosighting #ufosightings #ufohunter #ufohunters #fulldisclosure #aliencontact #alien #aliens #et #greys #greyalien #aliensighting #ufology #ufologia #flyingsaucer #flyingsaucers #aliensarereal #ufologist #alienart #cropcircle #cropcircles #aliensarehere #starwars #spaceflight #deepspace #spaceship #spacelovers #spacesuit #spaceexploration #spacecraft #telescope #spacex #spacestation #space #astronomy #universe #galaxy #earth #moon #nasa #science #physics #cosmos #spacetravel #explorer #astrophoto #milkywaychasers #milkyway_nightscapes #spacephoto #deepsky #telescope #ngc3314as #themilkywayout --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neverastraightanswer/message

Today Mariel & Melissa welcome Cory Richards to the show! Cory is an internationally renowned photographer, filmmaker/director, and writer. He is an artist and storyteller who passionately explores the human experience through all mediums. Cory uses his life as a conduit to illuminate the global issues we face and how to overcome them through re-humanization, the reimagining of leadership, and vulnerability.  His work for National Geographic Magazine began with adventure features, exploring the most remote corners of the globe from Antarctica to the Russian Arctic. As a professional climber, his early career was defined by high-risk expeditions and leaned on his unique skillset to capture stories that were largely out of reach to others. Much of Cory's life has been defined by his journey with Mental Health to which he speaks openly and honestly, laying bare the hidden struggles that so many face in silence and solitude. As a high school dropout at 14, his life has followed an irregular arch that has lent itself well to exploring the balance of high achievement and struggles with mental health. See Cory's Photography Portfolio on his website, here: https://www.coryrichards.com Hosts - Mariel Hemingway & Melissa Yamaguchi
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Mathew Henson ExplorerI think I am going to do a series of PLEASE SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS PERSONTell me at the end if you would not sit and binge an entire series about Mathew Henson one of the first people to go to the NorthPole in our Black History month for I Can't Believe That Happened.Born August 8 1866 on a farm in MarylandHe was the middle child with an older and a younger sisterHis parents were free sharecroppers who escaped to Georgetown after the KKK made southern Maryland too violent to stay.Mathew was orphaned at a young age and raised by his uncle in Washington DC.He earned money by washing dishes in a restaurant.During the speeches of 1863 Mathew was deeply inspired by Fredrick Douglas.At the age of 12 he became a cabin boy on the Katie Hines traveling to ports in China, Japan, Africa, and the Russian Arctic. During his time on the Hines he was educated by the ship's captainWhen he returned to land he worked in a clothing store where he met Commander Robert E Peary. Once Robert learned of Mathew's sea experience eh recruited him for a surveying tour of Nicaragua. Mathew impresses Peary on the voyage and became first man on all upcoming trips.For twenty years the expeditions centered around the arctic where they traded heavily with the Inuit. Mathew learned their language and was said to be the only non Inuit who became skilled in driving the sled dogs and training the dogs in the Inuit way.He was a skilled craftsman who learned to build igloos from snow and other mobile housing.In 1909 Peary mounted an expedition to reach the North Pole. He and Mathew boarded the Roosevelt leaving Greenland along with four Inuit assistants, Four Inuit guides named Egingwah, Ooqueah, Ootah, and Seeglo, and were the first people to set foot on the North Pole.Mathew was one of six chosen to make the final leg of the journey. Reports have it that Henson was no longer able to continue by foot and used the dog sled to scout ahead of the group.Henson was the one to plant the American flag.There was much controversy about the story but their accounts are backed up by the National Geographic association as well as the Naval Affairs Subcommitee of the U.S. House of Representatives.In 1912 he wrote a book about his experiences traveling widely to give speeches about his experiences. Though Henson was a very important part of the expedition it was Peary who received most of the fame and focus. Henson spent years working as a clerk.Long overdue in 1937 Henson was given membership to the New York Explorers Club.Congress awarded him the Peary Polar Expedition Medal in 1944He was honored by President Truman and President Eisenhower before he died in 1955Bibliographyhttps://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/explore/notable-graves/explorers/matthew-hensonhttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/may/24/matthew-henson-arctic-explorer-first-man-to-north-pole Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Living Planet, we hear from climate scientists whose work has been disrupted by the war in Ukraine. We visit an ambitious project in the Netherlands, which shows us that living things really are all around us. And we look into the exploitative practice of biopiracy.

Live fire training this week takes place at the Shary shooting range near Pechenga, the main base of the 200th Motorised Rifle Brigade. The exercise is lead by officers and instructors with experience from the war against Ukraine, the Northern Fleet informs.https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/01/ahead-deployment-ukraine-russian-arctic-troops-shoot-missiles-near-border-norway

The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington presents the first talk (12/1/2022)in the 2022-2023 REECAS Lecture Series on Russia in the Arctic. Valeria Vasilyeva (Ph.D. in Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences) is a research fellow at the Center for Arctic Social Studies, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, she is a Fulbright visiting scholar at Boise State University. Her research focuses on mobility practices, social construction of space, and perception of infrastructure in the Russian North. She has conducted fieldwork in several regions on the Arctic coast, but her primary region of interest is the Taimyr Peninsula.

In the early hours of 30 October 1961, a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over the frigid Russian Arctic. Hanging below this Soviet plane was a nuclear bomb the size of a small school bus. It was the largest and most powerful bomb ever to be created, and it was about to be tested. The Tsar Bomba's gigantic detonation was intended to be secret, but was detected by American intelligence agencies—bringing brewing Cold War tensions to fever pitch. The thermonuclear hydrogen bomb yielded the equivalent of 50–58 megatons of TNT, enough to annihilate a small country. The resultant mushroom cloud reached an altitude seven times higher than Mount Everest, and its 8-km-wide wide fireball could be seen from almost 1,000km away.This week, James is joined by Alex Wellerstein, an expert on the history of nuclear weapons. Together they discuss their development from WW2 to today, and the terrifying legacy of the largest man-made explosion in history.For more Warfare content, subscribe to our Warfare Wednesday newsletter here.To download, go to Android or Apple store. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Electric truck stops will need as much power as a small town. Heat pumps mandatory in new homes in Washington State. Indoor hydroponic wheat produces 6 crops per year on the same land. LaGuardia Airport will host a pilot project that uses a flywheel to speed up EV charging. SpaceX buys ads on Twitter. Could Tesla be next? Battery espionage in Canada by China.  Tesla proposes a North American charging standard. Should ICE trucks pay highway tolls? New study could show how batteries can have 20% more life cycles (and therefore lower prices). Half the world's fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036. The price of hydrogen at the pump in California has risen 33%. We compare gas and electric alternatives. Tony Seba has our Tweet of the Week: Percision fermentation land area to replace all the cows. Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! @cleanenergypod Check out our YouTube Channel! @CleanEnergyShow Follow us on Twitter! @CleanEnergyPod Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript Hello, and welcome to Episode 139 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. I'm James Whittingham. This week, an indoor wheat experiment is a big success. A new crop is harvested six times a year. Wish my hair did that. Heat pumps are now mandatory in new homes in Washington state. Also mandatory cheering for the Seattle Kraken electric truck stops will need more power than a small town. What about the same amount of meth? LaGuardia Airport will host a pilot project that uses a flywheel to speed up EV charging. This partnership makes perfect sense, because if there's one thing LaGuardia is known for, its speed. All that and more on this week's edition of The Clean Energy Show. Welcome, everyone, to what I think is the best podcast on the Internet everywhere. It's objectively true. Objectively true. I think so. Right now, this is a particular moment. And also on this week's show, Brian, we also have stuff about SpaceX. It's buying ads on Twitter because it's CEO bought Twitter. And we wonder if Tesla could be next, because Tesla has never advertised near her SpaceX. So maybe this could break ground for that. We'll see. The first case of battery espionage has been discovered in Canada. Hydrogen pump prices are going up 33% in California, half the world's fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036. So keep that in mind when investing today. How are you? I'm good. So just an update on my house. So I applied for the Greener Homes grant here in Canada to do energy upgrades to my house. All right. Hoping to put in an air source heat pump, get rid of my natural gas. And so the first step of that is the blower door test and kind of home energy evaluation. And that all happened today. So that was fun. They put the big blower in the door. They test the air tightness of the house. So they got this doorshaped mass that goes all over the door with a hole for the blower. And the blower only, right? Yeah. And it blows air in or out, I can't remember. And then they could also go around the house with the sort of infrared camera thing and with the blower on, kind of show you where the leaks are in the house. It's wintertime now. It's super cold out. Oh, well, then it will be sucking. It will be sucking it. And the air will be coming in through the window cracks and things like that. Yeah. So did they go around with a smoker? No smoker. Just this infrared thing. Maybe they use a smoker more in the summer. Okay, well, they didn't use a smoker on mine, and they didn't do that on mine. They didn't go around. So what did you find out? Not too much yet. They have to sort of crunch all the numbers because they do a volumetric assessment of the house where they calculate the interior volume of the house. So then they have to go and take the measurements that they got from the blower door, do some calculations, figure it out, and you get kind of like an Energy Star rating for your home. And we did this about ten years ago when we did some upgrades. It was a similar program. So they give you a number, I think it's out of 100 of what your energy efficiency is, and then as you make improvements, you hope to they do the blower door test again when you're all done, and you hope to increase the sort of Energy Star rating of your house. This is mostly for air ceiling, right? Yeah, and we could see that a little bit with the infrared camera. But we will hopefully do some more upgrades. It's the main thing we want to do is the air source heat pump, and we should get the grant for that kind of regardless of what the blower door result is. I told you last week there's a TV series shooting across the street from me, and they were actually outdoors shooting today, so I was worried the blower would they come knock on our door. Because you're a film, you know, the film community. Old man stalked and wanting money to shut down his blowers so we could continue our production, because people do that on the streets. They'll run their muscle cars and have to get paid off get paid off to shut it down because the film crew needs quiet. And I watched The Godfather yesterday, which I hadn't seen in many, many years. Let me guess. Blue Ray, 4k? Exactly. It's this restored version. It's quite cool. They did extensive restoration, but a lot of that movie is ADR. I sort of didn't remember that, but ADR being dialogue replacement, where a lot of the dialogue was replaced in post production. Like, a lot of it, like, way more than half, I think. Wow. So it was a low budget film, more or less, wasn't it? Yeah, I guess that would be the reason. Like, lots of location shooting and lots of extraneous noises. But yeah, that was sort of the surprise on that one for me. Did you just notice it more this time, or what? Yes, I haven't seen it in 2030 years. You were just a child then, really. I mean, you naive. You accepted everything as reality. Yes. I wish I was that. It's a fascinating if you're interested, on the Bluray, and there's these special features about how they had to restore it because the film, when it came out in 72, was just wildly more popular than anybody expected. And whenever that happens, they have to run more prints so that they have to make more prints of the film. So the original negative, even though it's only 50 years old, I ended up getting totally ruined. And the restoration that they had to do was to the point where they were going and taking outtakes they were taking outtakes and cutting them back into the film because certain shots were damaged. And with the approval of the director, you can do that kind of weird thing. Oh, wow. I don't know how I feel about that. You get used to a film that would stand out to you. It shouldn't be in any way that you notice it's like literally like just a shot of somebody walking down the hallway or okay, that's different. It's nothing important. You know, my childhood home has been destroyed. There was an explosion in Regina. That was your childhood home. No, it wasn't, but it was built next to my childhood home. And when I say childhood home, I mean I lived there for three months with great eight. My brother lived there, and I left home in grade eight and went and lived with him and found out he had a girlfriend who became his wife, who eventually became his ex wife. That building, which is a brick, three story apartment building with, I think, you know, twelve suites, and it was, has to be demolished now because the house next door blew out. Well, it was kind of like an apartment building that they were building right when I was living there, I think. And it's like a four suite housing, but nobody was living there. The whole thing blew up, rain off the ground, boom. And the only person who was injured was somebody who didn't live there, who lived somewhere. That window broke. But this is a story. Kids at Natural Gas caused this explosion with solar and wind have never caused an explosion. You know, I had my first clean energy show dream the other night, and it was a paraphrase in the first one. Brian, I was in the backseat of your Tesla. You got out and I was concerned. Did he hit the brake? You got in front of the car and the car ran over you. And I think I was watching Breaking Bad because I'm just now watching Breaking Bad, and there was a scene of a car running over somebody. So the same crunch for Breaking Bad was there, and I didn't think it went well for you. There's another part of the dream. For some reason, I was in this giant mansion with all kinds of celebrities around people, and I was ready to record my end of the podcast. And we couldn't find you. It was just not to be found. Like I said earlier, SpaceX, as a guest, has bought a package to advertise its Starlink Internet service on Twitter. Now, SpaceX has never advertised before. Starlink has never advertised before. Tesla famously does not advertise because its CEO has always said that the car sells itself. Until this point, it continues to do so. But I wonder, Brian, I wonder if either to prop up the company he bought, or could this be the first time that Tesla actually buys advertising on Twitter? Could that happen one of these days. Well, the explanation I heard was that he wanted to test the efficacy of advertising on Twitter. So they also bought ads on, like, Facebook and Instagram at the same time to kind of see how the Twitter kind of advertising scheme works. But it is a sort of demand lever that Tesla could employ. They still have a big backlog of orders, so demand is super strong. But if demand ever starts to slip, once they start producing more and more vehicles, they could start advertising to if the demand ever does start to slip, I guess the first thing they would probably do is lower prices because they've been raising prices because the demand has been too high. The first thing they would do is back off in those price increases and maybe go even a bit further if they had to. I imagine they're going to I mean, they've got three factories around the world which are going to hit their stride pretty soon, right? Or is it more than 03:00 a.m. I counting wrong, I guess technically four, if you count three months. Yeah. And there was an Arranium, what people think is an Iranians report that Tesla was going to sell the Chinese made cars in the United States. Some of them. I've long predicted that ever since I saw what's his name? Sandy Monroe. Sandy Monroe live his channel. Yeah, he said that from what he understood and he has expertise in Chinese manufacturing and has consulted with automakers over there that 20% less is what the Tesla can make in China. Like, they'll save 20% on the price of the car. And it turns out that the Chinese manufacturing is really good because they're bringing the Chinese manufacturing people over to the States to say, why can't we be as productive as you? Did you ever see that documentary called what was it called? I don't know. It was a factory. It was produced by Obama, and it was about Chinese companies that decided to take advantage of tax breaks in Ohio or somewhere to bring back an automotive factory or a factory that was in an automotive town in, I don't want to say Ohio, somewhere like that. And they just could not get the productivity. They couldn't understand it, but they couldn't no matter what they did, they finally threw in the towel, I think, and went home, and they visited the factory in China and man, what a different culture. What a different work culture. Everything is like calisthenics and unanimity and one team. I don't like that. I wouldn't want to work there. But as a manufacturer, it seems like quite an advantage, and it seems to be effective. Yeah. Well, the Tesla Shanghai factory is now operating at a run rate of about a million vehicles a year, so it is likely the largest car factory in the world. And they've gotten there in pretty short time. It's only been a couple of years that they've been producing cars. And it's true that demand in China is down a little bit, and they did cut the prices in Japan a little bit, or sorry, in China a little bit too, because the demand is slipping. But yeah, and they export those cars currently to Europe, but the Germany factory is going to start filling those orders. So those Chinese cars, if there's too many of them for the Chinese market, will have to go somewhere. I don't think it would be North America, because the Texas factory will start filling that in, but more cars to go to Australia or Japan or wherever. But on the other hand, Brian, you've got the Cyber truck coming and the Tesla semi. So maybe you could take one of those lines and start spitting out Model YS or something from China. Or maybe you make the X and the S, which are lower volume. It's more likely, like the next model that's coming, like they'll eventually be a lower cost model. So I assume they're planning for that in China, and they could start making more variants, too, like longer range variants as well. Sure. So, from Bloomberg, a 35 year old Hydro Quebec employee who worked on battery materials research has been charged with espionage for allegedly obtaining trade secrets for China. Well, he's in Kandiac, Quebec. He has a Chinese sounding name. So I don't know if he was originally from China or if he's an immigrant worker or what his nationality is for sure, but he was arrested following an investigation that they get in August. I'm concerned about the Chinese government. They have no shame when it comes to these things. There's some car companies in China accused of duplicating Tesla's, blatantly copying them, and a lot, even down to the software, this is the first time this happened. But it seems like they'll do anything to be competitive. And as we've mentioned before so Hydro Quebec, that's the electricity utility in Quebec, the provincially owned utility, but they've done a lot of research into batteries and battery materials, and they own a lot of patents in that. So I guess whatever they own there at Hydro Quebec was valuable enough to be espionaged. And it's a highly competitive batteries are highly competitive. But if they have, who knows what hasn't been caught? Because it seems like there's been more and more instances of this. And of course there's computer espionage and all that sort of thing. That's a concern for all countries, it seems like you have to put a lot of money into that. What do you think? This is why I asked, Brian. What do you think about things that I don't know what to think about? So, Brian Tesla has proposed a North American charging standard. Now, those of you who are new to the game, there is basically two charging ports in North America, CCS and Tesla. Tesla has its own charging network, which is the largest and most consistent, but it's got a different connector, so that's a problem. But it's amazing how great that connector is, right? Because it's small. If you compare it side by side to what everybody else is using for all the other cars, my car included, it's like half the size, but it's basically when you charge your car, you can do DC Direct, fast current fast charging at public charging stations, or you can AC charge at home. But what I didn't realize until today is they only have two pins on there that does both. So that's why it's lighter and smaller. They've figured out a way to do both now and the connector, it's more like a quarter the size of the CCS connector. So I think it'd be a fantastic idea. It's definitely the better standard of the two. So if North America were to standardize on the Tesla charging socket, I think that would be fantastic. Question is it might be a bit too late. Like Tesla could have maybe released this a couple of years ago, a couple of years ago, five years ago. A better chance at this. Yeah. So disappointing. Too little, too late, because it's probably not going to happen now. Probably not. But what Tesla said in their press release was that some of the, they've been talking already to the companies that make the charging networks, the chargers for the third party networks that normally are CCS. And it sounds like they have some plans already to incorporate the Tesla connector onto those. So, I don't know, there is some hope, but it's probably too late. And CCS will likely be two standards in North America, CCS and Tesla. Part of this is the federal government in the United States is giving a lot of money to expand the charging networks. But when you do that, you have to have more than one charging standard, more than one car company that uses it. So if just one car company, any car company that sells maybe ten cars a year adopted Tesla's in the clear, they don't have to make the GCs ones, and they could get all the government subsidies for just making their charges that they already make. Now the government could go and tweak that fine print. Okay, so here's another one for you. This is a clean technical op ed. It says Tolling the highway to green trucking. Should tolls be implemented on combustion semi trailers once EVs are on the road. Do you think that would be an effective way to do it? Well, I don't think you'll have to. It's kind of like the cost of running a combustion truck will already be more expensive, so there's already a kind of a penalty just for using one. So an extra toll probably not needed. I mean, what's needed is faster production of the electric trucks and get those on the road. That's the thing. This is assuming price parity, that the cost of ownership is going to be the same, right? Well, charging lithium ion cells at different rates boost the lifetime of battery packs for electric vehicles. So says yet another Stanford study. We have so many Stanford studies on the show. According to the study, batteries managed with this new technology could handle at least 20% more charge discharge cycles, even with frequent fast charging, which puts an extra strain on the battery. So basically they're saying don't charge each of the individual cells at the same rate all the time. And that actually gives you 20% longer life. And 20% longer life if you're talking about a fleet of cars of a million cars and a robotxis, or storage for the electrical grid that lasts twelve years instead of ten, the costs on those greatly changes with doing this basically a software tweak. So that seems quite to me, it seems like it's got a lot of potential if it works, yes. That's exciting. There's a lot that can be done with software. It isn't just the hardware components of a battery or the chemistry's, or the chemistry is where you can improve the life. Yeah, the software can have a big benefit. So Ford is officially the number two electric vehicle seller in the United States. And if you extrapolate out the twelve months of a year, based on what they had in October, ford would achieve 75,000 EV sales. Which is what's, Tesla right now? Close to a million. Close to a million. So that's not much, but that's what your number two is. A lot of people wouldn't have picked for it to be number two right now. They would have took GM or more likely Volkswagen. And that points back to our previous conversations about the connectors. Standardizing on the Tesla connector has a fighting chance just because Tesla vehicles are so ubiquitous in North America in terms of EVs. Another thing I wanted to talk about is electric truck stops will need as much power as a small town. So as Tesla rose out, it's semi next month, hopefully, I think December 1 is when they're having the release. Are you looking forward to that one? Yeah. Do you think something special could roll out of the back of that truck? I hadn't thought of that. The tesla ebike. The robotic musk. I don't know. I do. Social media platform and we'll roll out the back of the truck. Yeah. So it's adding pressure on the truck industry to go green. But the grid upgrades must start now if the new era is to last. This is from Bloomberg, and sometimes these stories make me wonder if that is all accurate. But a sweeping new study. This is another study of highway charging requirements conducted by utility company National Grid Plc. Researchers found that by 2030 electrifying, a typical highway gas station will require as much power as a professional sports stadium. And I would think sports stadiums use less now with all the Led lighting, but it's probably better. But I know our city built a new football stadium a few years ago, and I don't know if you noticed, but they're all kinds of electrical transformer boxes outside the stadium. They hid them in the park. There's a park next to the stadium and they had to try and hide all of these electrical transformer boxes. And there's a lot of them. And the power used to go out on the old stadium we had here. This is a stadium we have for the Canadian Football League, by the way. Okay, so this is just for electrified passenger vehicles. As more electric trucks hit the road, the projected power needs for a big truck stop by 2035 will equal that of a small town. And they think that lots of wiring will have to be done. Nobody really knows how this is going to play out with trucks. Like, is there going to be specialized newly built truck stops? Because truck stops are a thing. You have a shower, you park the truck for a while. It's a truck resting stop as well. So I don't know. How do you think that will play out, if you had to guess? Well, there's usually a decent amount of space at existing truck stops, so I assume there's enough room at the existing truck stops to kind of transform them and have both fuel and electric. Hopefully they have started working on that already. Now, just to tag onto that, I want to skip ahead to the story about LaGuardia Airport. Sure. Because I think it sort of makes me think of the same issue. So there's a story here from Electrac about zoo's power that's got this machine with a flywheel. And this is being installed at LaGuardia Airport to facilitate fast charging of cars, rental cars particularly. And yeah, I bring it up because the reason this machine exists is that the power available in certain locations can be limited. Right. Like if these truck stops are going to need all the power of a small town, well, you don't necessarily have the grid infrastructure where you need it. I don't think this does an enormous amount. Like, it's not going to triple or quadruple the amount of power available. But the idea behind this zoos flywheel machine is that it literally uses flywheels. And we talked about this before. Some power plants use flywheels as well. It's literally just the momentum of a spinning wheel to help kind of even the power output of your hydroelectric dam or whatever. Anyway, so I guess the idea being that you take a limited amount of power that might be available in a parking lot at an airport, and then you use this flywheel machine. And some by spinning up the flywheels, you can increase the amount of power available. It's sort of similar to having batteries on site. I would think that's going to be the more normal solution. Like at these truck stops, would be to put a big battery pack, a grid storage battery pack at a truck stop. But this is a kind of a smaller and cheaper way to add just a bit more power to what's available for your fast chargers. So with hertz ordering a couple of hundred thousand electric vehicles from Tesla and GM, I wonder how the infrastructure at airports is going to go. I mean, nobody is panicking about that, but I mean that's going to have to be built up presumably, and larger airports will have a lot of cars sitting there with batteries. You would have the chance in the low demand because most flights happen 06:00 a.m. To midnight or whatever. You could have 6 hours to when people aren't taking those cars, maybe to charge off the batteries for the next day. And that would yeah, I can see that being an important thing unless they have some off site, like just off the airport type of parking spaces for charging. Yeah, and like our parking spaces here in Canada at our airports, a lot of them are probably already electrified where we live because it's super cold in the winter and so you have plugins for block heaters. So at least there's power running to these parking lots. Whereas of course, in many places there would be no power running there at all. Half the world's fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036 in a net zero transition. So says an article in the Guardian that I read. $11 Trillion in Fossil Fuel Asset Crash could Cause a 2008 financial crisis, warrants a new study. I don't care. Yeah, that's my hot. Take it. Yeah. It's something I really wonder about and think about. Like, obviously these assets are going to become stranded and worthless at some point or at least the value start crashing at some point. But what point does that start to happen? Is it two years from now? Is it six years from now? Is it 20 years from now? It's hard to say, but I wouldn't want to be holding a lot of fossil fuel investments longer than the next couple of years, that's for sure. I think the big question is when will EVs really take off where there's not a battery constraint? And it sure seems like it's going to be within five years. It could be two years, it could be five years, but somewhere in that period I think it's really going to grab momentum. Yeah, but also too, like, as we've discussed, like last week and other weeks, there's not a lot of new money being spent on new oil exploration because they can kind of foresee, okay, there's not really going to be the demand. It's not worth it to spend this money building. So that does mean that the supply of oil will be kind of naturally constrained if the system doesn't expand. So it could be that as the oil industry shrinks, the production shrinks and if the production shrinks enough, then the price stays up. So countries that are slow to decarbonise will suffer, but early movers will profit. This is something we say on the show all the time. You have to move now. And our jurisdiction is not great where we live. We live in fossil fuel country with a mentality thereof and our country as a whole starting to make some moves. But we're basically a fossil fuel country in Canada and even the United States to some extent. But it finds that renewables that are freed up investment will more than make up for the losses of the global economy. You're freeing up a whole lack of investment that was going into fossil fuels that can go into other things and expand the economy that way. And just the renewables themselves will save money, of course. So it highlights the risk of producing far more oil and gas than required for future demand, which is estimated to leave 11 trillion to 14 trillion in stranded assets, which is a lot of stranded assets. Brian. Also, as we always say, we predict that governments are going to have to, and therefore you and I are going to have to pay for the clean up of some of these wells as well. So the most vulnerable assets are those in remote regions are technically challenging environments. Most exposed are Canadian tar sands in northern Alberta, us shale and the Russian Arctic, followed by deep offshore wells in Brazil and elsewhere. And North Sea oil is also relatively expensive to extract and it's going to be hit when demand falls. I'm worried about this because it could affect us as being an oil part of the world, it says. In contrast, current oil, gas and coal importers such as the EU, japan, India and South Korea will reap hefty economic dividends from the transition because they will be able to use the money they save on spending those places, spending gobs of money. We get our gas cheap here in North America, but they're spending gobs of money on fuel purchases and they'll be able to use that money to invest in their own economies. The lead author of the report said in the worst case scenario, people will keep investing in fossil fuels until suddenly the man they expected does not materialize and they realize that what they own is worthless. And we could see a financial crisis on the scale of 2008. Houston Detroit could have the same phase detroit did in the car industry collapsed earlier in this century. So yeah, it's got to be carefully managed. If you don't accept that all this is going to happen like people around here, yeah, it's going to be a problem. That's what I have to say about that. Yeah. And when your oil is expensive to extract like it is in the Alberta oil sands, that stuff will be the first to go because you won't be able to sell it at. A profit. So you've got another heat pump story. Heat pumps are the item of the year. I say yes, absolutely. No, it's amazing how even when this podcast started a couple of years ago, it was barely in our vernacular. It was barely in the vernacular. Yes. And now it's everywhere. So yes, electric is reporting heat pumps are now mandatory in Washington State for new homes and apartments as well from July 2023 onward. But the thing that I think is interesting about this, and it's not really mentioned in the story, we talked about the incredible heatwave that happened last summer on the west coast of North America. So Seattle area, Vancouver area, they're just an unprecedented heatwave because of climate change. And so many of those homes and places and businesses and apartments are not cooled. So this is the other benefit of this. So not only do you start heating your homes with electricity, but you also in Washington State now are adding essentially mandatory air conditioning, which, especially if it's low income apartments or something, would be a godsend for people who are hopefully won't. I mean, there was literally thousands of people died from the heat stroke on the west coast last summer. Well, that's an interesting take in a region that doesn't have air conditioning. And yet with climate change, we can see this happening a lot more often and now they'll be prepared. That's an interesting aspect of the story and I have to wonder if it was even part of the planning. No, I'm not sure. I mean, it depends on when they started talking about this. But one of the great benefits is of a heat pump heating and cooling. You get both in the same machine. So why just put in an air conditioner when you can put in an air conditioner that also runs in reverse and can heat your home as well? And for people who are new to the podcast or this type of thing, heat pumps are reverse air conditioners, essentially that transfer heat from one place to another, like inside the house to outside. And air conditioning or outside, even if there's a little bit of energy in that area, it takes it out. And the idea is to use electricity, which instead of natural gas, right, if you're heating, you want to use electricity and this is the most efficient way to do it. Yes, and in a place like Washington State, a lot of homes are already heated with electricity. Like it's not a frigid cold place like here. So there are more like 99% of homes where we live are heated by natural gas because it's so ridiculously cold. But in a milder climate, you might have electric baseboards in a lot of homes. So it is something like 50% already are heated with electricity in Washington state and this will eventually get it up to 100%. Yeah, that's very interesting. And a very interesting side effect of going green using solar and wind and so forth for your heating, that you will actually probably save lives from a government policy in future heatwaves. Who knows when those heat waves will come, but they're going to come more often, those once in a century type heat waves, or once in a thousand years or 500 years, whatever it was. I want to talk about indoor wheat because we live in a heart of wheat country. You can't swing a cat with a wheat chief. It's on symbols for everything. Where we live, we're the breadbasket of Canada. And what was the name of your first feature film? I made a film called Wheat Soup. There you go. It had to be in the title. It had to be. So this is interesting to us because you know how there's hydroponics like indoor gardening, which I'm fascinated with. They do it in containers, they do it in buildings where they're basically using fertilized water and no soil to grow tomatoes or whatever in greenhouse like conditions. And I find that very interesting, especially when they can do it up north. And by the way, I saw another article in Blueberg about the Yukon. The climate changing, and the people are up there growing potatoes and things that they never used to grow before, and wheat as well, which required a lot of cabbage. And things like that require a lot of sunlight when they have 20 hours sunlight days in June. But, you know, it costs a lot to transport fresh food up there. So it's very expensive and very not fresh. Carrots is another thing that they're growing a lot of potatoes and carrots. So that's great. It's great in one sense because there's an advantage to them. But in this case, indoor wheat. Amsterdam based startup In Farm grew wheat without using soil or chemical pesticides, which is nice, and with far less water than conventional farming, which is also nice. So the first indoor farming company to grow a stable staple crop in a milestone for an Asian industry that has attracted venture capital funding on its promise that its technology can help feed the planet if delivered at scale. Growing a staple crop indoors has the potential to become a game changer. Supplies have increasingly been challenged by climate change and logistical issues. So you could grow well, you could grow wheat in Antarctica if you wanted to, right? If you got this technology down. And Infarm says that its first trial shows that projected annual wheat yields of 117 tons a hectare, okay? Now, that compares to the average 2022 yields of 5.6. So let me give you that again. Indoors, 117 tons hectare annually. Outdoors, 5.6. And in the European Union, it's 3.1. So that's in the European Union, it's actually less than the United States, which surprises me. It's only 3.1. Now, part of that reason of the higher yields is they have six crops a year. Okay? But if you times 3.1 times six, you still don't get 117 tons. So it's just a lot more dense and efficient to do it that way. I mean, it's not easy. We're probably decades away from this being a regular thing and getting the efficiencies and the cost down maybe a couple of decades, it's hard to tell. But, you know, it depends on what the need is, too. But this is interesting. It's going to be perfect, right? You don't spread pesticides on it. You're not going to have to worry about weeds. It's just going to be pure indoor stuff and locally delivered. No. And the more things, of course, you can do locally, then the more transportation that you can eliminate. You know, so many things now that, you know, our produce at the grocery stores just shipped in from incredible distances here. But if all that stuff could be grown locally, it would just be so much more efficient and just kind of save all that energy. I mean, theoretically, you could, in the middle of a desert in Africa, start up an operation like this and make flour or make proteins for food. Basically, you would need water, but you wouldn't need as much of it. So if you could use solar to desalinate water, you could put it anywhere. You could put it in there because we transport all of our grain by ship, which goes by train from the center of the continent out to the coasts and then onto ships. I don't think that this is going to completely replace green farming, but it could augment it. Maybe 100 years from now, it could replace it, but in the near term, this is basically saying that it could just fit in, reduce the challenges of supply, and in certain situations, a lot of land will be required to produce this. Wheat cultivation takes more than 216,000,000 land, more than any other crop. So, yeah, wheat takes a lot of land, which we have a lot of land here. A lot of land. Most of our province is filled with wheat fields. It's kind of insane. So, yeah, they would require very large indoor farms exceeding the area of all the wheat in France, I think. But they said it could potentially increase its yield by another 50% in the coming years, thanks to better technology. So it could even be 200 times or 200 tons instead of three tons. So that's interesting. Yeah. Once they learn what they're doing and tweak it and software can play a part, perhaps. Yeah, it could be amazing. Okay, so starting here from Hydrogen Insight, and this is about hydrogen pump prices in California. So this was something I just had never thought about before now. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles do exist. James, take a guess. How many hydrogen fuel cell vehicles do you think there are in California, which is currently one of the main markets for them? 410. There's $10,000. Okay. Which is not bad. It's kind of more than I expected. And there's a series of hydra. They're not all the Toyota Mariah. What are these vehicles? There's a Toyota Mirai there's a Hyundai. That's really nice. I forget the name of it, but there's a big Hyundai SUV. That's a hydrogen vehicle. They've sold a few of those for sure. Okay. But yeah. So there's hydrogen fueling stations in California, not in too many other places. But I just was interested in this because, yes, recently they had to hike up the price at the pump of these hydrogen, up 33% in California. This is a fairly big price jump. So just in terms of the price per mile, I thought this was really interesting. So right now is basically what it costs you to drive a hydrogen vehicle in California, roughly in a gasoline vehicle down to California has the most expensive gasoline in North America. Yeah, well, no, it's probably more expensive here in Canada. Is it? Because I went there, it was pretty damn expensive. That was a few years ago. So $0.22 for gas per mile and for hydrogen. Plus, you spend a whole bunch more money on your hydrogen car than you do a gas car. It's a serious technology. And then if you're driving an EV and you charge it off the grid, you're down to if you have to use a fast charger like a Tesla Supercharger, then you're up to but that's compared to for driving a hydrogen car. So I just wasn't totally clear on that until now. The actual cost of driving a hydrogen vehicle is more than gas, way more than electricity. Now, theoretically, if we were to SuperBuild out the hydrogen infrastructure and kind of get that all pumping again, locality is a key to that. Like, if each city had its own hydrogen plant or whatever, you had even smaller ones at the filling stations, making the hydrogen there, that would reduce costs a lot. But for right now, it's super expensive to fill up with hydrogen. And I don't see that coming down anytime soon. And the days of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is probably numbered. If we had no other option, we would be going full steam ahead with hydrogen and trying to get that that still take a while, but we would be trying to get green hydrogen, and then we'll be trying to get that green hydrogen price down so that it would be cost effective. But since we have an alternative to that called battery electric vehicles, electricity is also expensive in California. So if you compare it to other places, it would be even a larger variation there. And as we said, so obviously the electricity for charging your electric car comes from the grid. And there are certain shortfalls at places, perhaps like truck stops that don't have enough grid infrastructure. So it's far from perfect. But any electrical outlet anywhere in the world can charge an electric vehicle. So that's just an insane advantage over these very rare hydrogen stations. Yeah, they're expensive. And transportation and processing of hydrogen is also an issue. So Amazon is getting heat. We get heat for not talking about ebikes sometimes. Well, Amazon is getting heat for selling kits to override speed limits of ebikes. Now, this is mostly happening in Europe, right? Because there's more restrictions in Europe. Europe has strict electric bike laws that limit electric bicycles to a sluggish 25 km an hour or 15.5 mph. Even an old man like me can go well, I can't go 25, actually. It takes the work to go 25. Yeah, that is kind of cool. But solutions range from an electromagnetic modifications or chipping, quote unquote, that can remove digital speed limits. So people do that with cars sometimes, to hardware hacks to trick the bike speed sensors into thinking it's going slower than it truly is. And I haven't been able to find out exactly how that works. So I'm kind of curious. Yeah, I thought maybe you had done that on your bike where it's like you change the setting and it messes up the speedometer, so it ends up sending you faster than it's what you do is you change the wheel size on your bike. Didn't work for mine. It was supposed to, but my bike manufacturer has been kind of savvy to all the tricks, so by the time I get to them, they've figured it out and have eliminated that. But yeah, if you have like a 29 inch wheel and then you tell that it's a kid's wheel of half that size, then it thinks that one rotation is actually going a shorter distance and yes, and then you won't have a proper speed. And I have that FETO electric folding bike and I looked on the Internet and apparently there is a hack that you can do by pressing a certain combination of buttons on the little kind of remote screen there where you can hack it to go faster. But I haven't tried it. And with mine it was a code. It was like an eight digit code that you could type in at a certain place. And that one also did not work. I was curious, but I think the longevity of James is more important than the thrill of maybe trying out a 50 kilometer an hour. That's probably all my bike could do if it really wanted to. It would take a while to get there too. The important thing to remember in all this is you probably don't need your bike to go any faster. No, but what does my bike do? My bike does 32 instead of 25. So that's the next level. I think that's about what mine does. And that's pretty fast. And like I've said before in the show, I get kind of uncomfortable at that speed, and yet some other bastard on an ebike passes me and I think, I wish I had more speed. I start pedaling, which you can do. Apparently you can pedal and use the Ebike part. Well, anyway, I guess Ebike hot rodding as it's called, is much less common in the United States, where E bikes are permitted to go up to 45 km an hour. That's the United States. You can have guns and fast Ebikes or whatever you want. Tanks, cruise missiles, no. And modifying your car. Take out the pollution controls, although they have been cracking down on that lately. Oh, it's time for the Tweet of the week. This is where we pick a Tweet. And this last week was for Tony Siba. It's going to be for Tony Siba again. Okay, I'm sorry. Tony Siba is kind of one of our main people that we follow on the show here. Now, this was a person who was responding to how 5 million, what Tony calls precision fermentation. This is the future of food. He believes that will be disruptive based on price. This is one of the ways that is like beyond meat, that's one aspect. And then there's cellular meat, which will actually resemble steak and the texture of steak in the future, maybe ten years from now, that will be viable financially. But dairy is the first one that's going to be disrupted because glass of milk is 90% water and 3% of that is protein from the milk. So that's really all you're dealing with is that protein because the rest is fat and sugars, which you can get from other places. It doesn't have to be from a cow. So as they make these things in like brewery like buildings and disrupt milk. He says there are 5 million dairy cows in New Zealand. And so that would require 100 precision fermentation factories to replace all the cows. Less if they're bigger, which they will be. So it's just a matter of time and probably less time than most people expect. And Tony. Steve assisted that tweet. Correct. The total land needed to replace all the cows in New Zealand, 5 million of them, which is more than Canada, by the way. I believe we only have a million cows in Canada. I haven't counted lately, but I'm told that it's around a million. The total land needed would be around 1700 acres. But you compare that with the Auckland airport, it's 3700 acres. So basically half the Auckland airport could replace all the dairy cows the land wise. And then you have all that land. You can put solar on and do other things. This is a huge disruption of the world. Yes. If you think of a cow as basically a type of food technology, well, it can be delicious. It's the least efficient food technology. In fact, I think Tony said that the cow in particular is the least efficient of all of the kind of animal food technologies. So we get a lot of things from a cow, but the resources and the land and everything needed to get that is kind of insane and is ripe for disruption. So, as Tony points out, the first disruption will happen in just a few years. And he thinks that dairy will be bankrupt by 2030. And the reason is 30% of his business is business to business. So if you buy a protein shake, you're buying protein powder. Okay? And if it's cheaper to come from this fake stuff, if you can call it that, fermentation than it is from a real dairy cow, and you're greener people are just going to go, where the cheapest? If you want to buy bulk for a protein bar or a protein shake or whatever, all these things that have chocolate bars and everything and all kinds of foods that are processed will have first that will go and then 30% of dairy's gone. Yeah. No. And he mentioned, too, in his latest video, just the switch, like Coke and Pepsi switched from cane sugar to corn sugar back in the 80s. Basically, their entire product lines switching over to corn as the source for sugar. And while there is probably some taste difference, they was definitely not enough taste difference to stop what they were doing, because they completely four years. Four years. They did it in just both yeah. In four years. Complete switch over. And this is the main ingredient in their products? Yes. That means it's time for the lightning round. A quick look at fast paced energy news and climate news from this past week. Growing EV dem demand helps Volkswagen reach half a million ID deliveries one year early. Brian, that is a good news story, isn't it? Yeah, we talked about that a few weeks ago. They're on track for 500,000 deliveries. That's Volkswagen this year of EVs, and that's a huge number. Volvo debuts its first electric trucks made with fossil free steel. That is steel made with green electricity, and it is also 90% recyclable. So that's cool. Yeah. So Volvo was trying to green their whole lineup of vehicles, and they're doing it partly by switching over to electric, but they're also doing it by going with fossil free steel in their cars, which increasingly more and more manufacturers are going to do. Cough 27 news, 41 signatories have joined the pledge to stop funding fossil fuels by the end of year. But problematically. Brian, four large signatories are not signing. Germany, Italy, the United States and your favorite country in the world, canada. No, I'm sorry. Damn, it just sad. Can't overuse that, can I? Okay, it's time for a CS festival. Toyota has sold 4.7 million Priuses to date. That's no easy feat. Tesla did 3 million. But total yeah, that's to date, over the last ten plus years, 4.7 million Priuses are on the road, but nobody buys them anymore. No. Did you see the stat of, like, at one time they were selling 500,000 Priuses a year and it's down to 86,000? Yeah. People who bought them initially wanted an environmentally friendly car or to save money. Best way to be environmentally friendly or to save money is to buy electric now. Or at least electric hybrid. But anyway, solar power already saved China, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. $34 billion American in potential fossil fuel costs went in the first half of this year. First half of 2022. We're just getting started. That's astonishing. Yeah. I mean, spend your money on solar and then you won't have to spend it on fossil fuels. The US will finance about a third of the $9 billion rooms romania needs to build two nuclear reactors. That's a lot of money. They're getting it from the United States, which seems like a bad investment. I thought I would mention this. Globally up 13%. Okay. That's everywhere in the world. Europe is up 35%. I wonder why. Vladimir, the US is up 15% and China 13%. So this heat pump thing is, whoever makes the most of the best heat pumps, put your money in them because they're going to pay back. No, and I assume that I haven't seen announcements, but I assume that there are heat pump factories being built as we speak. And I don't know, we always hear battery factory announcements and things like that. I don't hear heat pump factory announcements, but presumably it's going on. The demand is huge. Inflation Reduction Act had money for developing better heat pumps, too, so there's going to be some R and D in there. Friend of the show, Greta Thuneburg thoonberg rather. I'm kidding. She's not a friend of the show, but we're working on it slowly. Global Witness found that more than 600 people are at the talks in Egypt at Cop 27. They're linked to fossil fuels. And, Brian, that is more than the combined delegations from the ten most climate impacted countries. Barf, we're at a critical stage now where we got to say no to fossil fuels. Just say no. And we got to stop the green washer, we got to stop the BS right now. Right now. No time left. From Tennessee Valley Authority, that is one of the grids in the southern US. The three giant cooling towers at the retired paradise coal plant in Kentucky came down this morning, was a few mornings ago now as demolition efforts continued at the site. And they say we are striving for a cleaner and more efficient energy future as we are building the energy system of the future. And by God, Brian, we have a clip. Fantastic. Here's the initial charge. The towers are collapsing. They're coming down completely now. And they're gone by the doctor. Goodbye, coal plants. Three cooling towers in Kentucky, a grave risk of winter blackout speaking of nuclear, is happening in France because electricity prices have surged past $1,000 or, pardon me, €1000 per megawatt hour as more nuclear reactors, more are closing in France, as if enough hadn't closed already. What this means, Brian, is, on a cold January day, france needs around 45 gigawatts of nuclear energy, and one day last week, there was only 25 available. Yeah, and there was a lot of reactors down, or at least down partially for repairs. So the amount of electricity from nuclear in France dropped 34% year over year in October. Just less power available from nuclear, which everyone always says it's like reliable base load power. That's one of the reasons it's promoting this is not reliable here. But it's not exactly that. You know, it's the pipes, the cooling pipes that are structurally problematic and cracked, and they realize that they're all bad. So they have this, and it apparently takes a while. They've hired like, 100 contractors to go in and fix this, but it's not that easy. Finally this week, Brian japan's government wants to remotely control private air conditioners to avoid power outages. The Japan Time points out that the government committee is currently working under the concept that the government would only be able to turn down AC units if individual owners have agreed in advance to grant them that authority. This is something we've seen, or, what, the third time now on the show? Yeah. And in Ontario, they're working on this. Here in Canada where remote control california, they do it with text messages where they just tell everybody to stop using so much AC. But this works. And no one really suffers if you shave a degree or two off your air conditioning for an hour and say it's much better than a blackout where you have no air conditioning. So that's not so bad. That is our show for this week. Next week I'll be talking about the new Toyota Prius lineup that will be announced between now and then and what excitement that will be. Because I need a car badly, Brian. Mine's starting to fall apart. My FUS is getting long on the tooth. How disappointed will I be? Tune in to find out. Maybe I should sell you my car. Would you buy my Tesla? Well, the street price for that Tesla, unless there's a murder in it, is not going to be good for me. What if I gave you a really good deal? I'll take two. Why would you want to? It's not the form factor you want, I guess, but I don't care. I would take a Tesla. What would you do for a new car? Buy a why? Yeah, something like that. You think I want to start? What's interesting, what are your interest rates? How quickly do you break legs? We'll sign over. Like making a 20 year loan? Pretty much what it would have to be, I think. Anyway, everyone out there, we thank you for listening. We do appreciate you and we'd love to hear from you. So contact us with anything that's on your mind Cleanenergy show@gmail.com. We are on social media with the handle Clean Energy Pod. We're on TikTok. Check out our TikTok channel. Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel, too, because you know why not? Sometimes you might want to look at things that are shiny. And you can even leave us a voicemail where we get to hear your voice, which is always a thrill for us. Speakpipe.com cleanenergyshow. Remember, subscribe if you're new to the podcast so that you can get new episodes delivered every week. And, Brian, I look forward to next week. you.

This one's got to be up there on one of my favorite interviews. I am joined by the remarkable and inspiring Cory Richards. Cory is an internationally renowned photographer, filmmaker/director, and writer. His work for National Geographic Magazine began with adventure features, exploring the most remote corners of the globe from Antarctica to the Russian Arctic. In 2011, Cory became the first and only American to climb one of the world's 8000 m peaks in winter, summiting Gasherbrum II in the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan. His documentation of the climb and aftermath of the experience was made into the award-winning documentary, COLD and appeared on the cover of the 125th-anniversary issue of National Geographic Magazine. Much of Cory's life has been defined by his journey with Mental Health to which he speaks openly and honestly, laying bare the hidden struggles that so many face in silence and solitude. As a high school dropout at 14, his life has followed an irregular arch that has lent itself well to exploring the balance of high achievement and struggles with mental health. His advocacy work has garnered millions of views online through his social media platforms as well as through his speaking career. I'm a huge fan of his work and really admire his courage and resilience with all the obstacles he's faced in his life. We chat about finding people in his personal life and supporting him on his journey and evolvement, what identity means to him, writing a book about his life and the hardest chapters to write, and the importance of community (finding a group of men at his gym), as well as internal and external goals he has. We also end the episode with some rapid-fires such as his least favorite photograph that he's taken and the 3 most influential people in life right now (the answer may surprise you).

Greg Dalton founded Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in 2007 after traveling to the Russian Arctic on a global warming symposium with climate scientists and journalists. Today Climate One produces a weekly radio show broadcast on public stations in California and across the country in addition to a podcast that is heard around the world. Greg also hosts a monthly TV show on KRCB TV 22 on Comcast and DirecTV. Climate One is the only regular talk show that engages high-level leaders from business, policy, advocacy and academic circles in a conversation about building sustainable economies, resilient communities and a healthier future.

How can storytelling help to tackle some of the biggest issues of our time, like climate change and biodiversity loss? And what role can migratory birds play, like swans and ospreys?  To talk about these issues and many more is today's guest, Sacha Dench. Sacha is the CEO of Conservation Without Borders, which organises inspiring expeditions following the paths of migratory birds, along the lines of both geographical and political borders. By displaying the flyways from the air, land and sea, they help to highlight the importance of collective action in the fight against climate change and biodiversity collapse. Sacha is an adventurer, a conservationist, a champion freediver, and is known as the human swan for her paramotor journey in 2016 following the Bewick's Swan's migration from the Russian Arctic all the way to the UK. We spoke to her in the final days before her latest expedition, from the UK, through Europe and into Africa, charting the flight of the Osprey, and the impacts of climate change on migratory birds. In this episode, we talk about the realities of climate change and the importance of storytelling and communications for conservation, and how to stay hopeful and optimistic for the future.  Sacha also shares her inspiring career so far, along with her top advice for people like you who might be seeking to follow in her footsteps. It's a wide-ranging, enjoyable and really eye-opening chat. Enjoy.

58 - Anatomy of Hell (2004) / How I Ended This Summer (2010) This week we locked ourselves in for a two-hander, as Catherine Breillat helps us get under each other's skin and Alexei Popogrebski cools us down with a bucket of Russian Arctic water.

In Episode 118 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores the possibility that Putin's criminal adventure in Ukraine could backfire horribly, actually portending the implosion of the Russian Federation into its constituent entities, the "autonomous" republics, oblasts and krais. Troops from Russia's Far East were apparently involved in the horrific massacre at the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. But indigenous leaders from Siberia and the Russian Arctic are breaking with Moscow over the Ukraine war. Rumblings of separatist sentiment are now heard from Yakutia (Sakha), Khabarovsk, Kalmykia, Kamchatka, Tatarstan, Tuva, the Altai Republic, and the entirety of Siberia. China, which controlled much of what is now the Russian Far East until the 1850s, has its own expansionist designs on the region. Frederick Engles called for the "destruction forever" of Russia during the Crimean War, but it may collapse due to its own internal contradictions rather than Western aggression. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex Production by Chris Rywalt We ask listeners to donate just $1 per weekly podcast via Patreon -- or $2 for our new special offer! We now have 31 subscribers. If you appreciate our work, please become Number 32!

Links:1. FONOP in Vain: The Legal Logics of a U.S. Navy FONOP in the Canadian or Russian Arctic, by Cornell Overfield, Arctic Yearbook, 20212. The "Polar Sea" Voyage and the Northwest Passage Dispute, by Philip J. Briggs, Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1990.3. Could a Kiwi Sailor's Northwest Passage Transit Break the Legal Ice Between Canada and the US?, by Cornell Overfield, lawfareblog, September 25, 1990.  4. The forgotten cruise of the SS Manhattan, by Jim Coogan, Cape Cod Times, September 1, 2009.  

In the early hours of 30 October 1961, a bomber took off from an airstrip in northern Russia and began its flight through cloudy skies over the frigid Russian Arctic. Hanging below this Soviet plane was a nuclear bomb the size of a small school bus. It was the largest and most powerful bomb ever to be created, and it was about to be tested. The Tsar Bomba's gigantic detonation was intended to be secret, but was detected by American intelligence agencies—bringing brewing Cold War tensions to fever pitch. The thermonuclear hydrogen bomb yielded the equivalent of 50–58 megatons of TNT, enough to annihilate a small country. The resultant mushroom cloud reached an altitude seven times higher than Mount Everest, and its 8-km-wide wide fireball could be seen from almost 1,000km away.This week, James is joined by Alex Wellerstein, an expert on the history of nuclear weapons. Together they discuss their development from WW2 to today, and the terrifying legacy of the largest man-made explosion in history.Please vote for us! Dan Snow's History Hit has been nominated for a Podbible award in the 'informative' category: https://bit.ly/3pykkdsIf you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! To download the History Hit app please go to the Android or Apple store. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Smart Growth, the Philidelphia Planning Authority and Island Books combined to bring a special event to life in which Peter Norton talked about his new book: "Autonorama: The Ilorory Promise of High-Tech Driving". A full-length recording of the event can be found on the Smart Growth website. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) enabled people to hear a discussion about the question: "What Does the Glasgow Climate Pact Mean for the Fight Against the Climate Crisis?". Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "Scottish Tory MPs did not engage with UK over carbon capture funding"; "Let's turn the tide on climate change"; "New US energy standards would reverse Trump's war on lightbulbs"; "LABarometer survey finds adverse environmental conditions impact a growing number of Angelenos"; "Poor neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat, ‘legacies of racist decision-making'"; "How did the Dutch get their cycle paths?"; "Australia's coal-fired power plants likely to shut almost three times faster than expected, report suggests"; "‘Really sad moment': bogong moth among 124 Australian additions to endangered species list"; "Margaret River bushfire threatens properties as locals flee homes, but Yallingup fire downgraded"; "Israeli winemakers see climate change affects their grapes"; "Climate Change Is About To Change Everything We Knew About Tiger Sharks"; "Shale Reality Check 2021"; "Iceland facility sucks carbon dioxide from air, turns it into rock"; "Warmer winters leave Connecticut's forests vulnerable to a tiny, wooly pest"; "Dictionary update shows how changing climate changes language, and much more"; "Seed is Australia's first Indigenous youth climate network"; "Stop Ecocide"; "Korea Joins the Race to Reach Carbon Neutrality by 2050"; "Coalition, Labor jockey for carbon dollar"; "Scotland marks end to coal power as Longannet chimney is blown up"; "WA firefighters must navigate caves to fight bushfire threatening Margaret River region"; "Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform"; "Land rights"; "Landback"; "Labor calls for ‘grassroots mobilisation' of religious Australians to tackle climate crisis"; "Indigenous  Climate Action"; "How global warming brings Indian Ocean Region together"; "A TikTok food star on why gas stoves are overrated"; "Coastal GasLink could face million-dollar fines for repeated environmental infractions"; "Getting it wrong on self-driving vehicles"; "‘Really sad moment': bogong moth among 124 Australian additions to endangered species list"; "Australia's weekend weather: west battles bushfires as storms and rain forecast for most of east coast"; "Hats off to the ResourceSmart Schools!"; "Rain-Soaked Rural Australia Asks: When Will It End?"; "Searching for Australia's Climate Tipping Point"; "The tricky business of charging electric cars"; "Why Nissan is probably the most serious threat to Tesla out of the traditional automakers"; "FMG CEO Elizabeth Gaines stands down as company reinvents itself with green energy"; "Australia's climate culprits pay little or no tax, new data shows"; "‘Extraordinary': End of coal in sight as Australia maps out 2050 electricity plan"; "CCC warns Scotland must rapidly reduce emissions to meet 2030 target"; "Orange launches new carbon fund to finance reforestation and ecological restoration projects"; "Regional Paths to COP26: An Overview of Climate Policy and Regulation"; "Extreme weather and pandemic help drive global food prices to 46-year high"; "How ‘Big Oil' works the system and keeps winning"; "Climate action leadership program helps teens channel concern into action"; "Crab Wars: A Tale Of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, And Human Health By William Sargent — Review"; "A rush to mine the deep ocean has environmentalists worried"; "Europe conflicted over push to fast-track mining code for the ocean floor"; "US spending on airport expansion flies under the radar for climate activists"; "African Union urged to bring political clout to Egypt climate talks"; "We're Living Through the ‘Boring Apocalypse'"; "'We want justice on climate', Makate says"; "Concern over impact of Norfolk Boreas offshore windfarm on seabirds"; "The Man Who Predicted Climate Change"; "Tropical forests can regenerate in just 20 years without human interference"; "NSW bars environment officials from holding financial interests linked to offset scheme"; "WA bushfires: two fires burn near Margaret River in Western Australia – video"; "Homeowner told to remove solar panels – but next door has had them for decade"; "Dave Sharma, the very model of a Wentworth modern Liberal"; "Dissecting the Language of Climate Change"; "Biden approves relief for Kentucky after tornadoes kill dozens in heartland"; "‘We can't save everybody': could biobanking offer Australian animals a last hope against extinction?"; "First Fires, Then Floods: Climate Extremes Batter Australia"; "Renewables growth puts heat on Kurri gas peaker"; "More than 70 people killed as series of deadly tornadoes smash several US states"; "A Plea to Make Widespread Environmental Damage an International Crime Takes Center Stage at The Hague"; "A Life's Work Bearing Witness to Humanity's Impact on the Planet"; "Scientists Join Swiss Hunger Strike to Raise Climate Alarm"; "‘A Trash Heap for Our Children': How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth"; "UNEP: Current climate commitments are ‘weak promises, not yet delivered'"; "‘Gentle giants': rangers prepare for return of wild bison to UK"; "Tornadoes Leave Trail of Devastation Across Six States, With Scores Dead". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

DEVCOM and the future of work John Willison, deputy to the commanding general of U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, discusses the three-phased future of work initiative his command is implementing and its reception by employees Negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran Richard Goldberg, senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses indirect talks in Vienna between the United States and Iran on its nuclear program Responding to Russia's Arctic militarization Jim Townsend, adjunct senior fellow in the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the significance of Russian militarization in the Arctic region and recommendations to prevent conflict

Patagonia has put together a three-part series about the climate with Lucy Siegle telling the story via a podcast to energise the planet and people. Meanwhile, The Guardian reports on a move by Australia's Federal Government which has even deepened the country's climate shame in the story "‘Vandals': Victoria, Queensland fume over federal climate intervention". Australia's States and Territories have been frustrated by newly invoked Federal Government policy that prohibits them from joining the "under 2 degrees" climate group. Other Quick Climate Links for today are: "The Federal Government's new foreign relations laws have passed Parliament. Here's what that means"; "State to host biggest wind farm in southern hemisphere as turbines win final approval"; "Succession's plot twist prompts surge of interest in leaving money in wills to Greenpeace"; "Don't add to e-waste mountain, campaign urges UK shoppers" "Climate extremists have terrified a generation into not wanting children"; "‘A Trash Heap for Our Children': How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth"; "Transparent Solar Windows: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; "Easy rider? We'll miss the roar, but electric motorbikes can't kill our road romance"; "‘It's critical': can Microsoft make good on its climate ambitions?"; "Ministers seek acceleration of water security, access to safely managed sanitation"; "A Mind-Blowing Festival of Ideas"; "Zoe Daniel announced as Independent Candidate for Goldstein"; "Matike Mai Te Hiaroa: Ihumātao and just relationships"; "UBI Pilot in Catalonia"; "I'm a coal miner and I've been in the industry for 40 years. About three years ago, I sort of woke up"; "I work as a schoolteacher in Western Sydney. Here, teaching kids when the weather is getting hotter by degrees is difficult"; "I want action on climate change because things are changing year after year. Our Country's getting hotter, our food less and less each season"; "From 2014 to 2019: How the Adani Group funded its expansion"; "IEEFA: BlackRock has moved rapidly on climate – but Adani exposures remain a major obstacle: "Council and Community Action in the Climate Emergency"; "Interview: Philip Sutton - a passionate man pushing for a "Climate Rescue'"; "More Americans Than Ever Understand Climate Change Is Real And Harmful"; "Coal activist released from prison with strict bail and curfew"; "What does Shell's takeover of Powershop mean for green energy?"; "Europe's Energy Crisis Is About to Get Worse as Winter Arrives"; "Offsetting agricultural emissions through reforestation would cost 15pc of farm profits"; "How global business could be the unexpected COP26 solution to climate change"; "Australia's Black Summer of fire was not normal – and we can prove it". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Jonathan Reisman M.D., the author of “The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy”, to discuss the human body and reveal medical stories about our insides that have uniquely our perspectives on life, culture and the natural world. Jonathan Reisman M.D. is an internist and pediatrician, naturalist, adventure traveler, forager, foodie and teacher of wilderness survival and prehistoric crafts. He has practiced medicine in some of the world's most remote places - in the Alaska and Russian Arctic, in Antarctica, at high-altitude in the Nepali Himalayas, in the urban slums of Kolkata, India, and among the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, and Discover Magazine. He runs a non-profit called "Calcutta Rescue USA" dedicated to improving healthcare and education for some of the poorest people in Kolkata. He also is co-creator of the anatomy-based dinner series Anatomy Eats. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest episode of Expert Opinions, a podcast from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and Eurasianet, Masha Udensiva-Brenner interviews Kimberly Marten about her research on climate change in the Russian Arctic.

Bill has taken Healing and Hope “from sea to sea” in Canada and abroad.At “the ends of the earth,” in both the Canadian and Russian Arctic, he and his teams took the Gospel where the name of Jesus had never been heard, mentored leaders, and spearheaded the funding and establishment of native churches.

Bill Prankard (Speaker) Sunday July 25 – Tuesday July 27 BILL PRANKARD is the Founder of the Bill Prankard Evangelistic Association a healing evangelist with a burning vision for revival. In 1972, while pastoring a small Pentecostal Church in Canada, he had a life-changing encounter with the Holy Spirit in a Kathryn Kuhlman service. That experience launched him into international healing and evangelism ministry. Thousands of people have received outstanding physical miracles and spiritual transformations as he crosses denominational lines and carries the full Gospel message, “in demonstration of the Spirit and power.” The scripture that has been the driving vision of the BPEA ministry is Canada's motto, Psalm 72:8 – “He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.” During his more than five decades of evangelistic ministry, Bill has taken Healing and Hope “from sea to sea” in Canada and abroad. He established and led churches, hosted weekly and daily television ministry, and authored several books and publications. At “the ends of the earth,” in both the Canadian and Russian Arctic, he and his teams took the Gospel where the name of Jesus had never been heard, mentored leaders, and spearheaded the funding and establishment of native churches. Although he has passed the baton of leadership of BPEA to Steven Carleton, he continues to accept invitations to minister in Hope and Healing services, Conferences, and Christian events. Bill and his wife Gwen are parents to four adult married children, twelve grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.

Oil is big business. It's an industry that employs an estimated 6 million people from Russia to Saudi Arabia to the US. But oil is a leading contributor to climate change and can lead to leaks and spills that pollute waterways and ecosystems. As the world gets more serious about shifting away from fossil fuels, the future for oil looks tenuous.

John Kampfner discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster, commentator and cultural leader. His book Why The Germans Do It Better is Guardian, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year and Waterstones Best Books of 2020. Find out more at www.jkampfner.net. People playing cricket in Chicago www.iplcc.com Cornwall's links with Mexico https://www.journeylatinamerica.co.uk/travel-inspiration/other/mexico-the-cornish-connection/ Insect-based cuisine https://www.tasteatlas.com/most-popular-insect-dishes-in-the-world The impact of climate change in the Russian Arctic https://www.ft.com/content/d855d522-cefc-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f Marine le Pen's gay acolytes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-39641822 German football fans drinking and smoking on the terraces https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/dec/11/sport.worldcup20061 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In Episode 60, Chris answers a listener question about The Royal Yacht Britannia, we have a great round up of the latest cruise news from around the world and finish the show with Emma from Emma Cruises reflection on the first UK Cruise onboard MSC VirtuosaThis podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. It is just like shouting your mate a coffee, and we consider our listeners close mates.  https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXThe Royal Yacht Britannia - Credit Marc MillarMARITIME HISTORY & LISTENER QUESTIONFurther information on The Royal Yacht Britannia & Fingal (Hotel Ship): https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/CRUISE NEWS Cunard Announces New Itineraries across FleetCunard resumes operations from July 19, 2021 as Queen Elizabeth welcomes guests on board for a series of UK voyages from Southampton, England; and beginning October 13, 2021, sailing internationally with new voyages including to the Iberian coast and the Canary Islands. Queen Elizabeth will then leave the UK in mid-February to resume her previously scheduled season in Japan from April 13, 2022.Queen Mary 2 will resume sailing with a Transatlantic Crossing on November 14, 2021 as per her existing schedule, and will now sail on a series of voyages around the Caribbean between January and April 2022, with embarkation options from Southampton, New York and Hamburg before resuming her existing published schedule on April 24, 2022.Queen Victoria will embark on three new voyages departing from Southampton from April 22, 2022 which includes Western Europe, the Baltics and the Iberian Coast before resuming her existing published schedule on May 20, 2022.Due to the ongoing complexities of navigating global travel, Cunard has today announced that they will be cancelling the following voyages:Queen Elizabeth's sailings from the UK to Australia and her homeport season in Australia from October 18, 2021 up to and including March 9, 2022.World Voyages on Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria in 2022 are now cancelled.Queen Victoria's sailings from September 10, 2021 up to and including April 29, 2022 are now cancelled.However, five of Queen Victoria's sailings will transfer onto identical voyages on sister ship Queen Elizabeth. These voyages are V126, V128, V129, V130 and V201.A-ROSA sets sail againRiver cruise line celebrates successful first departure of 2021A-ROSA successfully welcomed guest back onto its cruises on the river Douro. After an enjoyable first night on board in Porto, this morning, A-ROSA ALVA and her guests departed on a seven-day cruise through the Douro Valley to the Spanish border and back.Cruises on the Danube will resume in two days' time on 19 June, on board A-ROSA DONNA, calling at three European capital cities – Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava. By the end of this month cruises on the Rhine will be back in operation and by the middle of the summer, A-ROSA plans to have three quarters of its fleet operating along the Rhine, Main, Moselle, Danube, Douro and Rhone rivers.Having sailed successfully for over five months in 2020, A-ROSA used the winter months to further fine tune its sophisticated health and hygiene protocols. 2021 will see the return of A-ROSA's popular gourmet buffets, plus as in 2020, the SPA-ROSA with its sauna, treatments room and gym, the pool/whirlpool and a range of excursions will be available, all in compliance with strict hygiene measures.An Icon Is Born As Royal Caribbean Starts Construction On Revolutionary ShipAn iconic day for the cruise industry's next iconic ship took place on Monday, June 14 when Royal Caribbean International marked the start of construction on its first Icon Class ship. To celebrate the milestone, the world's largest cruise line held a steel-cutting ceremony at Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku, where the revolutionary ship's name was revealed as Icon of the Seas.Debuting in fall 2023, Icon will be the cruise line's first of three ships to be powered by LNG (liquefied natural gas). LNG and the state-of-the-art ship's additional environmentally friendly applications, such as shore power connection, will boost energy efficiencies and reduce carbon footprint. More details about Icon's advanced environmental technologies will be revealed at a future date.Viking ex Malta Viking announced new details about its upcoming Welcome Back voyages in the Mediterranean that launch in July 2021. Over the course of summer and early fall, Viking will homeport three sister ships—the Viking Star®, the Viking Sea® and the company's newest ship, the Viking Venus®—for three different 11-day itineraries that explore the Mediterranean, roundtrip from the Maltese capital city of Valletta, a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site. Viking also announced today that it has partnered with Lufthansa to offer non-stop flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Malta, exclusively for Viking guests.Mediterranean Voyages Beginning in July 2021Malta & Adriatic Jewels (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Croatia, Montenegro & Malta) – Discover Malta's millennia of history and visit ancient UNESCO sites. Explore Croatia's captivating coastline and some of the great iconic cities of antiquity. Stroll the majestic city walls of Dubrovnik and visit Diocletian's Palace. Or immerse yourself in nature and the great outdoors during a visit to Krka National Park. Join us for a fascinating journey as you witness rolling landscapes and ancient architectural treasures along Adriatic shores. Multiple sailing dates July through October 2021.Malta & the Western Mediterranean (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Italy, Spain & Malta) – Traverse the historic and heritage-rich waters of the Western Mediterranean during a 10-night roundtrip voyage from Valletta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You will discover the magnificent Amalfi Coast from elegant Naples, gateway to Pompeii, and visit Messina, Sicily's cultural crossroad. See the storied sites of ancient Rome and immerse in Tuscan Florence and Catalonian Barcelona's art and architecture during your unforgettable journey. Multiple sailing dates in September and October 2021.Malta & Greek Isles Discovery (11 days; Valletta to Valletta; Greece & Malta) – Immerse in the ancient world as you discover the early empires of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Visit historic UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as the Maltese capital of Valletta and Rhodes' Palace of the Grand Masters. Enjoy dramatic views of the Parthenon in Athens, uncover the mysteries of the Minoans on Crete and admire the white facades and azure domes of the clifftop villages of Santorini during this enchanting voyage through the centuries. Multiple sailing dates July through September 2021.Viking opens up Europe to American cruisers Viking today welcomed Americans back to a reopened Europe. The 27 European Union countries reached an agreement to again allow travellers from the United States in a vote earlier today—a long-expected move that complements the CDC's recent announcement that it has eased travel recommendations for 110 countries and territories. As part of the new recommendations, the CDC has specifically ranked Iceland and Malta—two key destinations for Viking's Welcome Back voyages, which are offered exclusively for vaccinated guests – as “Level 1” or the lowest for risk of COVID-19.Viking successfully restarted operations in May and has been sailing in the United Kingdom with British guests since May 22. Nearly 100 percent of guests on these sailings provided exceptionally high ratings. Earlier this week, on June 15, the company welcomed its first American guests back on board in Bermuda for the first of eight sailings of Bermuda Escape. Over the next month, Viking will launch Welcome Back sailings around Iceland and in the Mediterranean – and will restart its European river operations with select itineraries in Portugal, France and along the Rhine.Crystal Expedition Cruises Announces 2023-2024 Deployment for Luxury Expedition Yacht Crystal EndeavorCrystal Expedition Cruises today announced the full roster of 2023 voyages as well as two early January 2024 itineraries for its luxury expedition yacht Crystal Endeavor.  The first ever “Made in Germany” Polar Class Six (PC6), all-suite, all-verandah ship will feature 27 world-spanning itineraries, taking guests on adventurous journeys to new and remote corners of the globe in bespoke luxury and comfort on the line's state-of-the-art vessel.Highlights include polar expeditions, remote island explorations, immersive voyages to Japan, Russia's Northeast Passage, cruising into the heart of Seville, and moreThoughtfully crafted itineraries range from 10 to 28 nights and will offer intrepid travellers a diverse range of adventures including expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic; South America and offshore islands; Cape Verde and the Canary Islands; the Mediterranean and Western Europe; the British and Scottish Isles; Iceland and the Faroe Islands; Norway, the North Cape and Svalbard; the Russian Arctic and the Northeast Passage; Japan and the Inland Sea; the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago; and Australia including New Year's Eve in Sydney.See Cruise News Post for full list of voyages: https://bit.ly/3vGlbdtPhilippines, Borneo & Indonesian Quest (Remote Expedition) – 16-night, November 21 – December 7, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan to Bali, IndonesiaExpedition to Bali, the Raja Ampat & Queensland (Remote Expedition) – 16-nights, December 7 – December 23, 2023, Bali, Indonesia to Cairns, AustraliaHoliday Expedition: Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania (Destination Exploration) – 14-night, December 23, 2023 – January 6, 2024, Cairns, Australia to Hobart, AustraliaDisney Cruise Line Offers More Holiday Cheer Than Ever Before in Fall 2022The magic of the holidays returns to Disney Cruise Line in the fall of 2022 with Halloween on the High Seas and Very Merrytime Cruises across the fleet, including the first fall season on the all-new Disney Wish. With cruises departing from Florida, New York, Texas and California, guests will have many opportunities to experience holidays at sea with Disney Cruise Line.“With five ships setting sail in fall 2022 from different homeports around the country, we are excited to offer more ways than ever before for families to make special memories with Disney Cruise Line,” said Thomas Mazloum, president of Disney Cruise Line.Halloween on the High Seas returns to Disney Cruise Line in mid-September through October 2022. On select sailings across the fleet, guests can dress up and join Disney characters in their Halloween costumes at Mickey's Mouse-querade Party; enjoy themed food, beverages and crafts; and immerse themselves in a ghostly ship takeover with elaborate decor and a magical Pumpkin Tree.From early November through December, the Disney Cruise Line fleet is decked from bow-to-stern with holiday cheer and entertainment during Very Merrytime Cruises. Holiday magic is unwrapped for the whole family with festive holiday decor, favorite characters in their finest holiday attire and a special visit from none other than Santa Claus.Bookings open to the public June 24, 2021Tropical Escapes from FloridaIn fall 2022, the Disney Wish and Disney Fantasy will embark on guest-favourite itineraries out of Port Canaveral, Florida, while the Disney Dream continues to sail from Miami.The Disney Wish will continue its inaugural season with its first-ever fall and holiday sailings, offering a series of three- and four-night voyages to the Bahamas, while the Disney Fantasy will offer six-, seven- and eight-night vacations to the eastern and western Caribbean.The Disney Dream will take guests on four- and five-night Bahamian itineraries and five-night Caribbean cruises to ether Grand Cayman or Cozumel, Mexico.All sailings from Port Canaveral and Miami will include a stop at Castaway Cay, Disney's private island paradise outfitted for family fun and relaxation and brimming with special Disney touches.Caribbean Cruises from San JuanThe Disney Magic will sail out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for two special itineraries in early November. A seven-night southern Caribbean sailing will visit Antigua, St. Lucia, Aruba and Bonaire, while a following six-night voyage will feature stops in St. Thomas and Falmouth, Jamaica.Baja Peninsula Voyages from CaliforniaSpooktacular sailings return to California in late September with Halloween on the High Seas cruises to the Baja Peninsula from San Diego. The Disney Wonder will host three-, four-, five- and seven-night vacations from southern California, allowing guests to celebrate the Halloween season at sea while taking in the mesmerizing beauty of Mexico.Sailings to Bermuda and Canada from New YorkThe Disney Magic returns to New York in late September for a series of Halloween on the High Seas sailings to Bermuda and Canada. Guests can visit Bermuda's pink sand beaches and colorful coral reefs on five-night vacations or set their sights for a special six-night cruise to the Canadian ports of New Brunswick and Halifax that includes a stop in Bar Harbor, Maine.Vacations to Bahamas and Caribbean from TexasThe Disney Magic will visit Galveston, Texas, in late November for a variety of five- and seven-night Very Merrytime Cruises. Guests can experience the magic of the holidays on western Caribbean itineraries with ports of call that include Cozumel and Progreso, Mexico; Falmouth, Jamaica; and Grand Cayman.Aida announces 2022 World Cruise After the great success of past world voyages, AIDA Cruises today announced that AIDAsol will sail its first world cruise in winter 2022-2023, a 117-day adventure that includes rounding Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope and visiting destinations such as Glacier Alley, Tierra del Fuego, Mauritius, Cape Town and New Year's Eve in Sydney. In addition to popular destinations, AIDAsol will make first-time port calls at Suva in Fiji, Nuku'alofa in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga, Mystery Island in Vanuatu, Île des Pins in New Caledonia and Geraldton in Australia.From October 26, 2022, AIDAsol will call at 43 ports in 20 different countries on four continents, pass the International Date Line and cross the equator twice. From Hamburg, the ship will first set course for South America. After calls on the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands, dream destinations such as Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Ushuaia and Chile await guests.From there AIDAsol continues westward to Tahiti, Bora Bora, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu (Christmas), New Caledonia and Australia to Mauritius. Guests welcome the New Year against the magical backdrop of Sydney.The last leg of the voyage takes guests aboard AIDAsol via La Reunion to South Africa and Namibia. On the way back to Europe, travellers visit Tenerife and Madeira. The voyage continues via Lisbon and Cherbourg/France, to Hamburg, where it ends on February 20, 2023.In addition, three legs of the world cruise can be booked. The duration of the voyage varies between 30 and 48 days — a perfect opportunity to fulfil the dream of a unique voyage in shorter stages. For example, AIDA guests can travel from Hamburg to San Antonio in 36 days, from San Antonio to Mauritius in 48 days or from Mauritius to Hamburg in 33 days.On sale now via travel agents.Coral Expeditions releases two new North Australian expeditions in 2022Coral Expeditions, Australia's pioneering small ship cruise line, has today announced two special departures ‘Across the Top' of Australia for early in the new year. The itineraries will operate between Broome and Cairns in January 2022 with only two 18-night voyages planned on the company's state of the art 2019 expedition ship Coral Adventurer.  Covering over 4,000 km of remote coastline, the voyage will take a small number of like-minded guests through Australia's great rivers, pristine outer reefs, and ancient traditional communities seen by very few in their lifetime. The expeditions will be hosted by Coral Expeditions' renowned guides who will share insights into the rich history, geology, and indigenous cultures of the region.“These voyages have been created for Australians and inspired by guest demand we see each year to join together our 10-night Kimberley and 11-night Cape York and Arnhem Land voyages” stated Commercial Director Jeff Gillies. “These are two of our most popular Australian expeditions.  This combined voyage brings together our greatest hits”Voyage Details: 18-nights | Broome to Cairns departing 1 January 2022 | Aboard Coral Adventurer18-nights | Cairns to Broome | departing 20 January 2022 | Aboard Coral AdventurerFred. Olsen Cruise Lines unveils brand new sailings aboard new ships Bolette and Borealis in 2022Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has today unveiled 16 brand new sailings aboard new ships Bolette and Borealis departing in early 2022.The new cruises include a 34-night sailing to the Caribbean and a 15-night Mediterranean discovery, as well as sailings closer to home with a five-night scenic Ireland sailing and a two-night ‘no port' short break. Also included are scenic sailings to the Norwegian fjords, opportunities to witness the Northern Lights and voyages to the Canary Islands or Iceland, to name a few.Durations range from two to 38 nights, with departures available from Southampton and Liverpool.Highlights of the new 2022 programme include:Borealis' 34nt ‘Cultural Caribbean and the Americas' cruise, departing from Southampton on 6th January 2022. Departure of a 38-night sailing is also available from (and returning to) Liverpool on 4th January 2022.  Itinerary: Southampton, England – Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal – St John's, Antigua and Barbuda – Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis – Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – Santa Marta, Colombia – Colon, Panama – Puerto Limón, Costa Rica (overnight stay) – Belize City, Belize – Cozumel, Mexico – Kings Wharf, Bermuda (overnight stay) – Southampton, EnglandBolette's 14nt ‘In Search of the Northern Lights' cruise, departing from Southampton on 30th January 2022.Itinerary: Southampton, England – Trondheim, Norway – Alta, Norway (overnight stay) – Tromsø, Norway (overnight stay) – Bodø, Norway – Ålesund, Norway – Southampton, EnglandBolette's 19nt ‘Ancient Adriatic with Venice' cruise, departing from Southampton on 13th February 2022.Itinerary: Southampton, England – Cartagena, Spain – Valletta, Malta – Split, Croatia – Venice, Italy – Zadar, Croatia – Dubrovnik, Croatia – Cruising Strait of Messina, Italy – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy – Lisbon, Portugal – Southampton, EnglandBorealis' 5nt‘Touring Scenic Ireland in Five Nights' cruise, departing from Liverpool on 14th April 2022.Itinerary: Liverpool, England – Cruising by Spike Island, Ireland – Cobh, Country Cork, Ireland – Galway, Ireland – Cruising by Cliffs of Moher, Ireland – Cruising by Dún Aonghasa, Aran Islands – Cruising by Clare Island, Clew Bay – Cruising by Croaghaun, Achill Island – Cruising by Inishkea Islands – Cruising Wild Atlantic Bay, Mayo – Cruising by Downpatrick Head, Mayo – Cruising by Malin Head & Sliabh Liag, Ireland – Cruising by Arranmore, Ireland – Cruising by Tory Island, Northern Ireland – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Liverpool, EnglandSaga Cruises' new ship Captains announced as the cruise liner returns to the wavesSaga Cruises is welcoming two new Captains to operate the cruise company's sister ships, ‘Spirit of Discovery' and ‘Spirit of Adventure', as they return to the waves this summer, along with a familiar face who will be returning to take the brand new ‘Spirit of Adventure' on her inaugural cruise.Darin Bowland and Jason Ikiadis will join Kim Tanner as the Captains of Saga's cruise ships that are exclusively designed for guests who are over 50.Captain Bowland will take the helm of Spirit of Discovery on June 27 as she heads off around the British Isles, and Captain Tanner will take Spirit of Adventure on her inaugural 15-night cruise around the British Isles on July 26.Captain Darin Bowland has previously held positions with Royal Caribbean and Carnival Corporation (Holland America), after starting his career as a cadet with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1985.Captain Jason Ikiadis comes from a long line of seafarers, including his own father who was a ship's Captain, and his paternal grandfather who was in the Royal Navy. “Captain Ikiadis first went to sea in 1984, and has held many positions since, working up the ranks to Captain for cruise lines such as Azamara and TUIRegular Saga Cruisers will also recognise Captain Kim Tanner who has been with the cruise line for five years and is popular with guests and crew alike. MSC VIRTUOSAEmma from Emma Cruises recently sailed on the first UK sailing onboard MSC Virtuosa. 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In this second episode of the methane miniseries, I speak to Professor Orjan Gustafsson from Stockholm University about his team's ongoing collaboration with the Russian research team, led by Professor Igor Semiletov, investigating the Siberian Arctic. Orjan has published over 80 research papers jointly with his Russian colleagues on their findings in the Russian Arctic over the course of more than a decade. In this episode, he highlights why understanding this region is among one of the most important research areas in climate change today. Despite the complexity of geopolitics that often infects peoples thinking in dealing with Russia, the opportunities for scientific collaboration in pursuit of critical knowledge can, in the long run, prove more beneficial than any short term political aims. Thank you for listening to Shaping The Future. More interviews and podcasts can be found on climateseries.com, GENN.CC and on all major podcast channels and Youtube. There are many more episodes being recorded. In fact, I am working really hard to turn them all around. Please do subscribe and all feedback is much appreciated. CONTENTS: Interview contents by Timestamp[min:sec]|Subject 00:00 Overview of research programme looking at how carbon feedback processes work. 03:50 Degradation of subsea permafrost. 07:00 Different sources of methane. 09:00 Subsea permafrost not a risk? 11:30 Quantity of thermogenic methane. 13:30 Why this matters for policy. 14:40 Defining megaseeps. 17:00 Extrapolating estimates of megaseeps. 18:38 Is there a known countervailing force? 20:30 Is policy and rate of research in the area sufficient? 21:00 Is the Russian Presidency of the Arctic Council good for research? 21:50 Why what is happening in Siberia should be considered top scientific priority. 23:45 Slope hydrate vulnerability due to Atlantification of Arctic (warm inflow of water). 26:35 Russian Presidency a good opportunity for collaboration. 26:58 Research to be published in 2021. 27:38 New open access database live - CircumArctic Shelf Carbon database, “CASCADE”. 30:45 Science as diplomacy. Support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc Visit & subscribe to genn.cc: https://genn.cc

This can also be seen as a video edit with previously unseen footage from the last voyage in late 2020: https://youtu.be/lGgcUSJbAqE The transcript will also be posted on https://genn.cc and https://climateseries.com/climate-change-podcast This is part 1 in series of three posts on methane releases from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf recorded in 2021. This is the first in a miniseries discussing the ongoing work in the Russian Arctic talking to Dr Igor Semiletov, one of the lead scientists who has been studying the region for over twenty years. Old deep thermogenic pool In assessing whether the potential for increased climate warming is a significant risk, scientists look at the size of the carbon pool and also the origin of the methane. In many cases where methane is produced from biogenic sources, such as animals and plants, it is created by microbes and although has the same global warming potential, it is created very slowly and is often broken down to CO2 before it reaches the atmosphere. The other source is thermogenic methane that occurs due to the decay of organic matter at high pressure and temperature. For these conditions to occur, the sediments where they are found are older and deeper. In terms of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, many scientists have believed that the methane emissions are from biogenic sources. This means they would be slower to form and overall a lesser risk to the global climate. This article has been created using extracts from recent interviews with Dr Semiletov. In part 2 I speak to Professor Orjan Gustafsson from the Department of Environmental Science at Stockholm University. Orjan has been visiting the East Siberian Shelf for many years working alongside an international group of scientists including the Russians. He discusses how research into the escaping methane and thawing permafrost in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf should be greatly expanded considering the magnitude and changing stability of the carbon pool. He also suggests that this research could have enormous ramifications for how carbon budgets that inform policy, are calculated.

The Astronomy, Technology and Space Science News Podcast.SpaceTime with Stuart Gary Series 24 Episode 37*Earth’s first supercontinentA new study suggests Pangea was simply the latest of approximately three supercontinents that formed on the Earth’s surface and that they all formed with in the last two billion years.*NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First FlightMars 2020 mission managers say their Ingenuity helicopter should be ready for its maiden flight within the next few days.*Virgin Galactic unveils its first SpaceShip IIIVirgin Galactic has rolled out its newest spacecraft – the first so called Spaceship III variant – officially named VSS Imagine.*US Strategic commands cryptic tweetOften described as the dunny door of social media Twitter looked like things were getting a lot more serious the other day when the official twitter account of the United States Strategic Command -- which runs the country's powerful nuclear weapons force suddenly tweeted what looked like a cryptic code.*The Science ReportScientists have discovered a new type of immune system T Cells.Record high temperatures in the Russian Arctic.A new way to dramatically increase the power storage capacity of Lithium-ion batteries.The remains of an extinct species of Tree-Climbing Kangaroo discovered on the Nullarbor Plain.Skeptic's guide to QAnonWould you consider supporting SpaceTime?...SpaceTime is an independently produced podcast (we are not funded by any government grants, big organisations or companies), and we’re working towards becoming a completely listener supported show...meaning we can do away with the commercials and sponsors. We figure the time can be much better spent on researching and producing stories for you, rather than having to chase sponsors to help us pay the bills.That's where you come in....help us reach our first 1,000 subscribers...at that level the show becomes financially viable and bills can be paid without us breaking into a sweat every month. Every little bit helps...even if you could contribute just $1 per month. It all adds up.By signing up and becoming a supporter at the $5 or more level, you get immediate access to over 230 commercial-free, double, and triple episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. You also receive all new episodes on a Monday rather than having to wait the week out. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at Patreon www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or Supercast - https://bitesznetwork.supercast.tech/Details at https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com or www.bitesz.com/support For more SpaceTime visit https://spacetimewithstuartgary.com (mobile friendly).For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimewithstuartgaryRSS feed: https://rss.acast.com/spacetimeEmail: SpaceTime@bitesz.comTo receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at

Join Richard Roberts and Evangelist Bill Prankard for a fascinating discussion on the person and power of the Holy Spirit. Bill shares an encounter he had at a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting that launched him into an international healing and evangelistic ministry. He tells how his life changed when he made a commitment to pursue and to truly know the Holy Spirit. As an evangelist, Bill has traveled the Canadian and Russian Arctic to share the full Gospel message with miracles and signs following. To learn more about knowing the Holy Spirit and seeing His power work through you, join us for this podcast today!  -To learn more about Oral Roberts Ministries, go to www.oralroberts.com    -For prayer, go to www.oralroberts.com/prayer or call 1-918-495-7777 -To learn more about Bill Prankard Evangelistic Association, go to www.bpea.com 

Stockholm mayor pledges to make Stockholm the "Impact capital of the world," plus a Russian Arctic research vessel sets sail into the Neva River. Sweden's environmental education is building a generation of Greta Thunbergs, and scientists discover 12 new species in the deep Atlantic.

James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, sits down with Isaac Sligh, the 2020–21 Hilton Kramer Fellow, to discuss Isaac's travels in the Russian Arctic and in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.

In a special holiday episode, we travel to the Russian Arctic to meet the "prophet of the permafrost", take an extraterrestrial hike in the tracks of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars and meet the researchers cataloguing culture. Kenneth Cukier hosts Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions:www.economist.com/podcastoffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a special holiday episode, we travel to the Russian Arctic to meet the "prophet of the permafrost", take an extraterrestrial hike in the tracks of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars and meet the researchers cataloguing culture. Kenneth Cukier hosts Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions:www.economist.com/podcastoffer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this BONUS episode, the Histories of the Unexpected duo, James and Sam, get into the festive spirit once more, pack up the presents of the past and take you on a historical sleigh ride of archival inquiry to unwrap the expected history of REINDEER! Which is all about an 11,000 year-old sculpture of two swimming reindeer carved out of mammoth tusk, which shows the development of the human brain and ice-age art, maps and mapping, and reindeer knickers; it's also all about tension in the Russian Arctic, Reindeer Crusades, and of course the invention of Christmas crackers and the reindeer joke, for example 'How much does it cost Santa to park his sleigh and reindeer?', 'Nothing, it's on the house'. Who knew! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this BONUS episode, the Histories of the Unexpected duo, James and Sam, get into the festive spirit once more, pack up the presents of the past and take you on a historical sleigh ride of archival inquiry to unwrap the expected history of REINDEER! Which is all about an 11,000 year-old sculpture of two swimming reindeer carved out of mammoth tusk, which shows the development of the human brain and ice-age art, maps and mapping, and reindeer knickers; it's also all about tension in the Russian Arctic, Reindeer Crusades, and of course the invention of Christmas crackers and the reindeer joke, for example 'How much does it cost Santa to park his sleigh and reindeer?', 'Nothing, it's on the house'. Who knew! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this closing chapter, Evgenia speaks on the theme of solitude. From her eerie, yet enchanting experience of being stranded in a hut by a herd of walruses – to the idea of understanding solitude: in the city, in the Arctic, in lockdown, in life. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

In this penultimate chapter, Evgenia unpacks the significance and spirit of community, closeness and connection to the people and life that she photographs in the Arctic. Hear the story behind the photograph from her Chukotka series. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

In this chapter, Evgenia describes the unpredictability of the Northern Lights, lasting for a few minutes, or a few hours. After photographing the deserted town of Dikson, and the lights faded muting everything into darkness, listen to the dream-like story Evgenia and her brother experienced during the light of Aurora Borealis. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

Before embarking on the journey to Kanin Nos, Evgenia asked the lighthouse keepers what items she should bring them. To her surprise, it was a specific response – one kilo of cucumbers, 10 bulbs of garlic and one kilo of apples. Explore the story behind the apples that travelled a long way. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

In this chapter, Evgenia talks us through the interesting and intimate story of the meteorologists and lighthouse keepers. The couples, Evgenia and Ivan, photographed with their dog named Dragon, collect water samples to measure the salinity of the seawater in extreme freezing conditions. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

In this prelude, Evgenia introduces us to her long-term project, whilst touching on the dynamics between people and her photography, and the instantly grounding experience in the Arctic as a visually cleansing and emotional reality. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

Despite warnings of polar bears and extreme conditions, hear why Evgenia returned to this abandoned room when the Northern Lights appeared, with nothing but stars sparkling in unison, a piano, and the soundtrack of silence. Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic exhibition is available at The Photographers' Gallery from 9 Oct 2020 – 24 Jan 2021. Visit tpg.org.uk/EvgeniaArbugaeva for more exhibition-related content.

Michael Hilliard has been involved in journalism since 2010, working and reporting from countries ranging from Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, China, Belarus and many more. He has broken front page news a number of times, and has worked with sources ranging from the White House to the Taliban. He is regularly called upon as an informed source for various publications and also serves on various committees and councils for the Australian government. Michael is also the host of Australia's largest geopolitics show The Red Line, which has gone on to be streamed of 400,000 times in over 86 countries.   Inside the Episode: Drinking with the Taliban in Uzbekistan, having a gun pulled on him by the Russian mafia, almost was killed by a minefield in Georgia, stuck in Chernobyl...and the list goes on. People struggle with distinguishing between the local population of a country and their government. As Americans, we are happy to speak out against a decision made by our government when we disagree with it. So take that thought process around the world. Countries like Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, (and so on) have some bad reps in Western media. So that’s where Michael came in. To uncover the truth about these countries through their culture, food, and people and uncover the stories beyond the mainstream headlines.  Surprisingly, once Michael looked past the fact that the people he met were horrible criminals...terrorists….and gun smugglers….,he realized that they were also quite normal. After settling down with one of these guys for a beer or a meal, it felt almost normal…. Michael had some of the most unique stories to date, with experiences that included members of some of the worlds most vilified individuals.  Travel Tip: If you have a gun pulled on you, play it cool. Lost in the Russian Arctic. A bottle of vodka to keep him warm and the unwavering ambition to explore and learn, Michael trudged on, almost freezing to death… Michael talked about this amazing, beautiful ski resort in Georgia. As you can hear in this clip, he was provided with extraordinarily motivating information to keep him on the correct path...landmines. Michael shared a nail biter of a story, as he had to be smuggled out of Transnistria, flying under the nose of the KGB. By hiding in the SUV of a gun smuggler, Michael avoided what would have been, at a minimum, a very long prison sentence. Contact Information/References Website: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/ (https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theredlinepod/ (https://www.facebook.com/theredlinepod/) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikethespelingexpert/ (https://www.instagram.com/mikethespelingexpert/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRedLinePod (https://twitter.com/TheRedLinePod) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Support this podcast

By age 16, Rory Martin had already lived on five continents due to his father’s career as a US diplomat. Rory was born in Bogota, Colombia, and grew up there as well as in Paraguay, Brazil, Pakistan, Iceland, and Botswana.His adventures have continued into his adult life, from the Russian Arctic to the South Pole. He even re-entered the workforce to pursue his passion for expedition travel. Rory currently resides in Bozeman, MT.

Gulag: History, Camps, Conditions, Economy, Effect, Facts, Quotes (2003)To watch the video of this interview visit- https://youtu.be/aGeHPwgLm6Y   Published on Aug 13, 2016The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labour camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s until the 1950s. About the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140... The first such camps were created in 1918 and the term is widely used to describe any forced labor camp in the USSR.[1] While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment (the NKVD was the Soviet secret police). The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union, based on Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). The term is also sometimes used to describe the camps themselves, particularly in the West. "GULAG" was the acronym for Гла́вное управле́ние лагере́й (Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey), the "Main Camp Administration". It was the short form of the official name Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й и коло́ний (Glavnoye upravleniye ispravityelno-trudovykh lagerey i koloniy), the "Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Labor Settlements". It was administered first by the GPU, later by the NKVD and in the final years by the MVD, the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The first corrective labour camps after the revolution were established in 1918 (Solovki) and legalized by a decree "On creation of the forced-labor camps" on April 15, 1919. The internment system grew rapidly, reaching population of 100,000 in the 1920s and from the very beginning it had a very high mortality rate.[2] Forced labor camps continued to function outside of the agency until late 80s (Perm-36 closed in 1987). A number of Soviet dissidents described the continuation of the Gulag after it was officially closed: Anatoli Marchenko (who actually died in a camp in 1986), Vladimir Bukovsky, Yuri Orlov, Nathan Shcharansky, all of them released from the Gulag and given permission to emigrate to the West, after years of international pressure on Soviet authorities. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, who spent eight years of Gulag incarceration, gave the term its international repute with the publication of The Gulag Archipelago in 1973. The author likened the scattered camps to "a chain of islands" and as an eyewitness described the Gulag as a system where people were worked to death.[3] Some scholars support this view,[4][5] though it is controversial, considering that with the obvious exception of the war years, a very large majority of people who entered the Gulag left alive.[6] In March 1940, there were 53 Gulag camp directorates (colloquially referred to as simply "camps") and 423 labor colonies in the USSR.[7] Today's major industrial cities of the Russian Arctic, such as Norilsk, Vorkuta, and Magadan, were originally camps built by prisoners and run by ex-prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

Joseph Murphy, News Editor of Natural Gas World, brings us an overview of the latest main developments impacting the natural gas world. This week: Chevron kicks off downturn M&A with $5bn Noble takeover, Shell ventures into the Russian Arctic and Gazprom exits Latvian gas grid.

Before the lockdown earlier this year Wendy Morrison enjoyed a dream trip to a place where not a single foreign tourist had been.

Russia has a new government, but does it really matter? Prolific political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya breaks down the new cabinet for us. Plus, Russia forces pre-installed software on all smartphones sold in the country; pictures of long lines for fish in the Russian Arctic go viral (for all the wrong reasons), and other top stories that Russia has been reading this week.

Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, where she specializes in the US and Russian Arctic. Her first book, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait  (Norton, 2019) examines capitalist and socialist attempts to transform northern lands, seas, and Indigenous peoples, and was named one of the best books of 2019 by NPR and Nature.  Demuth's writing on energy, animals, and past environmental change has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.  

More than melting ice. How should we understand the Russian Arctic?Elena Zaytseva talks with artist Ruth Maclennan about her exhibition exploring the Russian Arctic, as a place to live in, to travel through, to project onto, to control and exploit for its natural resources, in the context of the climate emergency.This podcast episode was edited and produced for Pushkin House by Borimir Totev.Music featured in this episode: Chad Crouch - Negentropy, Sergey Cheremisinov - Gray Drops, Sergey Cheremisinov - Northern Lullaby.

Stan discusses current events in light of Bible prophecy.

Stan discusses current events in light of Bible prophecy.

In this episode I talk to Curtis Knapton of Lakeview Property Group. Curtis is an ambitious, driven, focused and highly motivated individual. It’s a great podcast with so much good advice offered and the work he’s doing on Ice Warrior is truly inspiring. ... He shared some great insight: ➡️ How he’s always on courses, reading and finding ways to learn. ➡️ Invest in your education. ➡️ The importance of having mentors and people to learn from, especially someone in your industry. ➡️ The time he spends in the morning on self-development and setting his day up to win. ➡️ Having a growth mindset and being goal focused. ➡️ His just start now motto. Don’t wait, just get started and learn along the way. ... Curtis can be found on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-knapton-020300157 Instagram - curtis_knapton His company - www.lakeviewpropertygroup.com ... For more information on the Ice Warrior team, training, expedition, sponsorship go to- www.lastpole.co.uk and www.ice-warrior.com https://spark.adobe.com/page/q0tJq/ Or contact Curtis or Jim direct on curtis@ice-warrior.com and jim@ice-warrior.com ... His work as an artic explorer and the Ice Warrior is so inspiring and so important to our world. Here’s his story: ... For the past 4-5 years I have been on a quest of self discovery and how I can have a positive impact on mankind, and one way I am living congruent is being trained to become a polar explorer with my 1st big expedition being to a place mankind has yet to reach "The pole of inaccessibility". Defined as the furthest point from land on the Arctic Ocean and therefore its centre, the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility remains the last truly significant place in the Polar Regions, yet to be reached by mankind and is over two hundred miles further than the Geographic North Pole. The whole journey will be near to 800 miles from the northern shores of Canada and will take in the North Magnetic Pole on route. The expedition is split up into 4 legs of approximately 200 miles each and every leg is different with their own unique challenges. This endeavour is of great importance of a scientific nature as its main purpose is to find out why the Arctic sea ice is depleting so fast, with the help of the top scientists in the field of climate change. Along the route team members will be gathering “crucial datasets” for the scientific community including new and vital data about how the sea ice breaks up, making the whole endeavour a major citizen science project. Partners include the NASA funded National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) scientists, The Met Office, The Scott Polar Institute, The Norwegian Polar Institute and the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. This vital data will deliver the reality of climate change and make the whole expedition worthwhile and purposeful. This attempt of great human endurance will be covered by the worlds media to aid in its effectiveness and raise awareness of a subject that effects us all, climate change. Along side current sponsors we need more to make this expedition happen and to be as effective as possible, sponsorship options vary from patches to partnerships and something for every brand in between. If you feel your brand could mutually benefit us in the way of kudos and brand awareness then please do contact Curtis or Jim ... Link to a visual description of sea ice depletion ⬇️

Antonia Bollingbroke-Kent balances a life of - big adventures with producing wonderful TV shows such as Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventures. She once drove a bright pink Tuk Tuk from Bangkok to Brighton, did battle with 1000 semi-wild Mongolian horses in the footsteps of Ghengis Khan and nearly froze to death attempting to drive a motorbike and sidecar to the Russian Arctic. Often guided by her Granny’s mantra of ‘Do nothing, say nothing, until the police arrive’ Silk Road Adventures Antonia regales some brilliant travel tales over a cup of tea in her Bristol Kitchen.   On this episode we cover:   ‘Tuk Tuk to the Road’ – Antonia’s epic overland journey from Bangkok to Brighton Her friend Jo’s mental health problems leading to the trip Wanting to raise awareness and money for mental health Giving up her job as a producer at ITV to go on the journey The intense planning that went into the trip Starting the journey in hospital in Bangkok Crossing China being very scary (and taking a very long time) Having to drive on dirt tracks and dangerous mountain roads The late night storm they didn’t know whether they’d survive Driving from Thailand across the border to Laos A month in China and into Kazakhstan 12 countries, 12,561 miles Crying all night the day before they got home The surprise greeting from the guards at the remote border between China and Kazakhstan Cheap hotels, camping and staying with families Trying to hide the bright pink Tuk Tuk in the middle of the Kazak steppe The shocked reaction to them in the middle of nowhere Being driven off the road by curious locals Driving across the Gobi Desert Being trapped by an earthquake and turning it into one big party Doing karaoke with lorry drivers Sleeping under the Tuk Tuk for two days Ted Simon, Jupiter’s Travels ‘the interruptions are the journey’ Breaking down in Crimea and having to stay there for a week Hanging out with the descendants of Genghis Khan The marked transition in character and culture when crossing Europe on the Ukraine-Poland border McDonald’s, Tesco disappointment Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium The brilliant journey on Eurostar with a Tuk Tuk Driving around the M25 in the freezing cold in the Tuk Tuk Her Granny’s saying ‘Do nothing, say nothing, until the police arrive’. Her adventurous childhood in Norfolk Travelling Thailand aged 18 and coming back with bright green hair How once you’ve tasted big overland travel journeys it changes you How if you don’t have the time to take months off you can take smaller adventures Setting up extreme adventures with The Adventurists The Mongol Rally horserace following in Genghis Khan’s footsteps Finding and training 1000 semi-wild horses in Mongolia Her midwinter Siberian motorbike adventure in minus 36 degrees Tom Morgan and Buddy Munro Channel 4 Trying to get a Ural motorbike and sidecar up the frozen river Ob Wearing tweed and thinking they were going to die Being given a huge frozen fish to take on the motorbike How regular breakdowns of the Ural bike actually kept them alive The Khanty–Mansia living in wooden houses by the river No running water or sanitation but plenty of vodka Returning to TV work to fund her adventures Producing World’s Most Dangerous Roads for the BBC Travelling with Joanna Lumley Silk Road Adventure series Filming a series with Tom Hardy on elephant and rhino Poaching Wars ‘No comment’ on what Tom Hardy was like! Her book ‘A Short Ride in the Jungle’ on her solo journey down the Ho Chi Minh Trail on motorbike The military supply route used during the Vietnam War How a single footpath became a 12,000 mile network through the jungle The trail still being heavily contaminated with unexploded devices A dangerous and remote experience Having ‘a few near misses with cluster bombs’ The Americans bombing Laos every 8 minutes for a decade The millions of millions of UXO dropped The remote tribal areas where ‘the war is still everywhere’ Two American former pilots she went off track with Finding an unexploded live bomb at her feet 400 people still being killed in Laos a year Meeting people who had lost sons, husbands, wives when ploughing the land Driving the Pink Panther – a 25 year old motorbike Every day being so exciting and scary and unknown and making her feel alive How a very curious person has led to her exploration The human urge to see what’s around the next corner and over the mountain Trying to have adventures in every day life and look at the world with fresh eyes Alastair Humphrey’s on The Big Travel Podcast and #microadventures Silk Road Adventures – the company she runs with her boyfriend Marley Building a portable sauna and tugging it around techno festivals in Europe Starting by doing motorbike trips in Tajikistan A passion for travelling in places where there aren’t many travellers Specialising in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, Northern Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Palestine, Iran and the Caucuses Her book about travelling through Arunachal Pradesh in North East India- the Land of the Dawn Lit Mountains in the Himalayas A three month solo journey across remote lands with restricted access The invisible fold no one goes to The most ethnically diverse place in South Asia, 30 different tribes The local animists who worship hundreds of different gods Constantly trying to appease this pantheon of spirits Meeting the first local girl to climb Everest Being trapped for 3 days in a festival of animal sacrifice and shamanic chanting in a tiny village on the Tibetan border Massive opium bongs, and tripping over the guts of oxen and pigs to the background of Shamanic chanting Eating leaves instead of animal guts Just like Glastonbury Not wanting to spend five days vomiting under the Shaman’s hut Being 18 and trying opium in Thailand How people get the wrong idea about The Royal Geographical Society Their amazing map rooms and libraries Winning a grant to do an expedition to remote North East India and Burma travelling through the lands inhabited by tribal head hunters The Naga tribe who fought for the British Ursula Graham Bower – still the only female commander in the history of the British army How head hunting happened until comparatively recently Lisa’s head-shrinkers in the family (!) Lisa’s granddad and the hallucinogenic drugs How places ‘at the edge of the map’ telling stories that haven’t been told before Wanting to explore Northern Pakistan and Lebanon The Baalbek ruins in Lebanon Staying in the Palmyra Hotel in the footsteps of Nureyev The song that makes her get off her motorbike and dance                

Eliza Hardy Jones is a musician, textile artist, and self-proclaimed “aggressive feminist.” From her current project transcribing women’s folk songs into sing-able quilts, to the making of her 2016 solo album, “Because Become,” she shares stories about synesthesia, textile as currency, running for mental problem solving, and synchronicity in the Russian Arctic. Throughout, Eliza celebrates the untold story of women as the progenitors of culture, and makes a deeply personal argument for the thorough investigation into who controls the official narratives of our national, social, and personal identities. You may have caught Eliza in the past touring with Grace Potter, Iron & Wine, or mewithoutYou, but you can always find her music and quilts online at www.elizahardyjones.com. More podcasts at www.maurajames.com. [“Who Am I” / “Criminal” / “Because Become” - Eliza Hardy Jones]

In this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter A. Ravella and Tyler Buckingham take a minute to talk about the interesting new content coming to ASPN before the New Year and go over some of the most compelling news stories currently on Coastal News Today. Subjects discussed: ASPN news and reflection on NHC Director Ken Graham's interview; the Hurricane Florence Series of shows; the upcoming BOEM interview and the GOMA Coastal Resiliency Fall Meeting this week (CNT & ASPN will be there!); introducing the new host for the Waterways podcast, Robert R. Frump; the NOAA/NFWF $28.9M National Coastal Resiliency Fund; new shipping routes through the Russian Arctic and what it means; Shannon Tompkins, inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing HOF and the importance of outdoor journalism; Shannon's story on warmer winters triggering changes in Texas bays; and, more.

Every spring, a bird called the barnacle goose migrates from the coast of the North Sea to the Russian Arctic, where it breeds. That's a 3000-kilometer trip. Along the way, the geese usually take pit stops to rest and refuel.  But the Arctic spring has been arriving earlier and earlier. So researchers analyzed six years of barnacle goose migratory tracking data. To try to figure out if these geese—and other species like it—can adapt their migration, to stay in sync with the changing seasons.“Then we used satellite images to see when snow was melting in the Arctic, and then we could relate the timing of the birds to the snow melt.” Bart Nolet, an ecologist at the University of Amsterdam.Nolet and his colleagues found that the geese did not leave their wintering grounds sooner to match the earlier Arctic spring. But they did speed up their trip—by skipping many of their usual stopovers. The birds arrived in the Arctic up to 13 days earlier than they used to. But at a cost. “So in a normal year, they start laying their eggs right after arrival. But now they spent more than a week foraging before they laid their eggs… So in effect, they weren't that much earlier than would have been the case. As a result, the chicks that hatch from the eggs in that early year, they survive much less than normal. Probably because they missed the food peak, which is a combination of very high quality in the grass, and enough grass around. And that food peak is around three weeks after snow melt, but now they were a few weeks later.”With devastating effects. “We looked at the daily survival of the goslings... If you calculate it over the whole month, then it's quite dramatic, they decrease from 20 percent to only 2 percent surviving. It basically means that not many goslings are surviving in such a year.” The study is in the journal Current Biology. [Thomas K. Lameris et al, Arctic Geese Tune Migration to a Warming Climate but Still Suffer from a Phenological Mismatch]So why don't the geese just leave their wintering grounds earlier? “When it's an early spring in the Arctic, it's not necessarily an early spring in the wintering area. So the birds cannot use any cue that's related to what's early or late spring to leave.”But Nolet does think there's some hope they might be able to adapt. “We know that the goslings learn their migration from their parents, so there's a lot of learned behavior in it. So it may well be that in the course of time, some birds discover that they have to depart earlier from their wintering areas to be able to time their migration perfectly, and match it with the Arctic.”— Annie Sneed[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]

Every spring, a bird called the barnacle goose migrates from the coast of the North Sea to the Russian Arctic, where it breeds. That's a 3000-kilometer trip. Along the way, the geese usually take pit stops to rest and refuel.  But the Arctic spring has been arriving earlier and earlier. So researchers analyzed six years of barnacle goose migratory tracking data. To try to figure out if these geese—and other species like it—can adapt their migration, to stay in sync with the changing seasons.“Then we used satellite images to see when snow was melting in the Arctic, and then we could relate the timing of the birds to the snow melt.” Bart Nolet, an ecologist at the University of Amsterdam.Nolet and his colleagues found that the geese did not leave their wintering grounds sooner to match the earlier Arctic spring. But they did speed up their trip—by skipping many of their usual stopovers. The birds arrived in the Arctic up to 13 days earlier than they used to. But at a cost. “So in a normal year, they start laying their eggs right after arrival. But now they spent more than a week foraging before they laid their eggs… So in effect, they weren't that much earlier than would have been the case. As a result, the chicks that hatch from the eggs in that early year, they survive much less than normal. Probably because they missed the food peak, which is a combination of very high quality in the grass, and enough grass around. And that food peak is around three weeks after snow melt, but now they were a few weeks later.”With devastating effects. “We looked at the daily survival of the goslings... If you calculate it over the whole month, then it's quite dramatic, they decrease from 20 percent to only 2 percent surviving. It basically means that not many goslings are surviving in such a year.” The study is in the journal Current Biology. [Thomas K. Lameris et al, Arctic Geese Tune Migration to a Warming Climate but Still Suffer from a Phenological Mismatch]So why don't the geese just leave their wintering grounds earlier? “When it's an early spring in the Arctic, it's not necessarily an early spring in the wintering area. So the birds cannot use any cue that's related to what's early or late spring to leave.”But Nolet does think there's some hope they might be able to adapt. “We know that the goslings learn their migration from their parents, so there's a lot of learned behavior in it. So it may well be that in the course of time, some birds discover that they have to depart earlier from their wintering areas to be able to time their migration perfectly, and match it with the Arctic.”— Annie Sneed[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]

Alison Williams-Bailey is a talented, versatile and creative theatre practitioner who has worked with many companies as a performer, workshop leader, choreographer and assistant director.  She is the artistic director of Root and Branch Theatre Company and also performs as a folk singer and a songwriter. She has performed internationally, recorded her own CD albums and performed on radio (UK & international).  Since graduating from her MPhil (Brunel 2006) & MA (Middlesex 1996) in performing arts Alison has taught in higher education (Brunel, Winchester & London University) as well as leading workshops and giving lectures at festivals (Tommy Makem International Festival of Song, Northern Ireland) and academic conferences (Winchester & Cambridge University, British Forum for Ethnomusicology).  She has performed as a folk singer at festivals (Sami Indigenous Music Festival, Kautokeino, Norway; Broadstairs and Tenterden Folk Festivals UK) and has toured in international theatre with Optik Theatre Company & Dudendance. amongst others. In 2006 Alison set up Root and Branch exploring ideas from her MPhil and encounters with the Sami indigenous people in the Scandinavian and Russian Arctic.  The Sami have a story-based culture passed through the generations by oral tradition. This year she founded Project Great Grandmother as a Root and Branch Theatre Project to explore mythology, legend and lore in Britain with storytelling performance of the Norse Creation Myth.   Related Links: www.rootandbranchtheatre.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/Project-Great-Grandmother-1041163536013638/

Back in the Soviet era, boatloads of day-trippers went to the island of Mudyug in the White Sea, to visit a museum. It was based around the remains of a prison camp - and one that is very different from the decaying Gulag camps scattered across north Russia and Siberia. For one thing, it was set up as far back as 1918. Even more remarkably, many jailors were not Russian. They were foreign troops. Bizarrely one French officer at the camp later created the world's most famous scent, Chanel No 5, inspired by his experiences in the Russian Arctic.

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys talk about how several cryptic posts from the Facebook page of a group known as the 'Flomo Klowns' put two Southern Alabama schools on lock down for a while Thursday morning. The Flomaton Police Department received information from a parent that her child had been sent threatening messages on Facebook from the group. Then, the world is still vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike, according to President Barack Obama's chief science adviser. NASA has made substantial progress in finding the asteroids that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there's still a lot of work to do, said John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Then, an Arkansas witness at Bella Vista and his wife rushed to a bedroom window after hearing “jet-like” sounds and watched a triangle-shaped object just 100 feet over the rooftop. Then, evoking visions of mad scientists, French researchers are set to revive a mega-virus dormant for 30,000 years that they discovered in the permafrost of the Russian Arctic. After the break the Kyle brings up some unusual real life stories of serial killers of the animal kingdom. Thanks for listening to Expanded Perspectives. Have a great week! Show Notes: Creepy Clowns put two south Alabama Schools on Lockdown Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says Arkansas witness reports triangle UFO at tree top Ancient mega-virus that does not resemble any virus on Earth is set to be revived Man Eaters of Tsavo Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided by Pretty Lights. Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com. Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Short Cut Samso Fly Away Another Day

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys talk about how several cryptic posts from the Facebook page of a group known as the 'Flomo Klowns' put two Southern Alabama schools on lock down for a while Thursday morning. The Flomaton Police Department received information from a parent that her child had been sent threatening messages on Facebook from the group. Then, the world is still vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike, according to President Barack Obama's chief science adviser. NASA has made substantial progress in finding the asteroids that pose the biggest threat to Earth, but there's still a lot of work to do, said John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Then, an Arkansas witness at Bella Vista and his wife rushed to a bedroom window after hearing “jet-like” sounds and watched a triangle-shaped object just 100 feet over the rooftop. Then, evoking visions of mad scientists, French researchers are set to revive a mega-virus dormant for 30,000 years that they discovered in the permafrost of the Russian Arctic. After the break the Kyle brings up some unusual real life stories of serial killers of the animal kingdom. Thanks for listening to Expanded Perspectives. Have a great week! Show Notes: Creepy Clowns put two south Alabama Schools on Lockdown Earth Vulnerable to Major Asteroid Strike, White House Science Chief Says Arkansas witness reports triangle UFO at tree top Ancient mega-virus that does not resemble any virus on Earth is set to be revived Man Eaters of Tsavo Music: All music for Expanded Perspectives is provided by Pretty Lights. Purchase, Download and Donate at www.prettylightsmusic.com. Songs Used: Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin Short Cut Samso Fly Away Another Day

Download Episode! At the young age of only 23, William has made his way to over three quarters of the world’s countries! William began traveling at a young age with his family, including a 6 week cruise from the UK through Australia via the Suez Canal.  He took his first independent trip to Scotland via train.  He has only 39 countries until he visits every country in the world.  William has also created a list of approximately 12,000 places in the world. He plans and hopes to visit these places over his lifetime.  William also has a penchant to visit some of the most remote corners of the globe including the Russian Arctic and  Tristan da Cunha.   Subscribe on iTunes today! More about William Baekeland: Born in: United Kingdom Passports from: Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom Favorite Travel Book: I like historic accounts of colonial expeditions. One which ones to mind is Richard Burton's 'Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po'. Good luck finding a copy, it took me a few years. Favorite travel film: I'm not so into movies, but perhaps I'd say Titanic. Favorite travel site: None in particular, I rarely use any. Must carry:  A Caran d'Ache writing pen. The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory. Favorite food:  With food, I am far too particular to reasonably attempt answering this question. Simplicity is an overlooked culinary virtue nowadays, though. Favorite drink: Gin and Tonic Favorite Airline: No commercial airline jumps out as being a favorite. Timetable is paramount, so is a good route map. Favorite Hotel: Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu. Subscribe on iTunes today!! About Counting Countries Counting Countries is the only podcast to bring you the stories from the dedicated few who’ve spent their lives on the singular quest of traveling to every country in the world. Less people have traveled to every country in the world than have been to outer space. Theme music for this podcast is Demeter’s Dance, written, performed, and provided by Mundi. About GlobalGaz Ric Gazarian is the host of Counting Countries. He is the author of three books: Hit The Road: India, 7000 KM To Go, and Photos From Chernobyl.  He is the producer of two travel documentaries: Hit The Road: India and Hit The Road: Cambodia.   Ric is also on his own quest to visit every country in the world. You can see where he has traveled so far and keep up with his journey at GlobalGaz.com How Many Countries Are There? Well… that depends on who you ask! The United Nations states that there are 193 member states. The British Foreign and Commonwealth office states that there are 225 countries and territories. The Century Club states that there are 325 sovereign nations, territories, enclaves, and islands. The Most Traveled Person states that there are 875 unique parts of the world. The Best Traveled states that there are 1281 unique places in the world. Me? My goal is the 193 countries that are recognized by the UN, but I am sure I will visit some other places along the way. Disclaimer: I will earn a fee if you order from Amazon/Agoda.

Please join us for the release and discussion of a new CSIS Europe Program report, The New Ice Curtain: Russia’s Strategic Reach to the Arctic, which examines Russia’s economic, energy, and security strategies and aspirations in the Arctic, and the evolution of the Kremlin’s Arctic policies over the past decade.  On the eve of President Obama’s and Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Anchorage, Alaska where they will convene Arctic and non-Arctic leaders to discuss climate impact and resilience, and global leadership in the Arctic, it is a timely moment to better understand the largest and most dynamic Arctic actor and to assess whether the Arctic will remain a cooperative region or succumb to geopolitical tensions.   Report author Heather A. Conley and project consultant Dr. Marlène Laruelle will examine the significant changes in Russia’s Arctic policies and rhetoric – particularly since President Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012 – and offer their insights on Russia’s military posturing in the region, as well as how to develop new collaborative thinking to preserve and protect international Arctic cooperation.  New York Times correspondent Steven Lee Myers, who has written about and traveled frequently to the Russian Arctic, will offer his reflections on the report and assess whether the development of a 21st century “ice curtain” is realistic.  The panelists will also preview the upcoming August 31st meeting in Alaska and assess the impact of the potential attendance of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on U.S.-Russian cooperation in the Arctic. Featuring   Dr. Marlène Laruelle Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University   and   Steven Lee Myers Correspondent, The New York Times   Introduced and moderated by   Heather A. Conley Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS Europe Program    This event is made possible by support from the MacArthur Foundation.

This Frostbyte was created by Przemyslaw Wyszynski for the Arctic Science Summit Week, held in Toyama, Japan 23 - 30 April, 2015.Click here for video

In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all. Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer. Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people. Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.

In February 2012, Arctic Institute contributor Tom Fries interviewed Yuri Sergeev about his work for the Bellona Foundation's offices in Murmansk, Russia. Yuri talks frankly about the many intractable challenges that confront the development of renewable energy in the Russian Arctic, and in Russia generally, focusing largely on regulatory uncertainty and simple lack of economic incentives to make the switch. Yuri's many stories paint a picture of a country with enormous potential, waiting for the right moment to become a formidable producer.