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November 27, 2018
Threshold Podcast Season 2, Episode 10—'Nickel for your Thoughts'
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![Winfred Obruk points to the lost beach in Shishmaref, Alaska, where the community's playground and fish-drying racks are now under water. The island faces rapid erosion due to the effects of climate change, and residents have voted twice to relocate. They are determined to move as a community, but while they try to navigate this costly and complicated process, the Chukchi Sea pushes ever-closer to their homes." Image by Nick Mott. United States, 2017.](/sites/default/files/11-16-17/170815_04111_raw_ngm.jpg "Winfred Obruk points to the lost beach in Shishmaref, Alaska, where the community's playground and fish-drying racks are now under water. The island faces rapid erosion due to the effects of climate change, and residents have voted twice to relocate. They are determined to move as a community, but while they try to navigate this costly and complicated process, the Chukchi Sea pushes ever-closer to their homes." Image by Nick Mott. United States, 2017.")
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Cold Comfort
Season two of Threshold takes listeners to the homes, hunting grounds, and melting coastlines of...
Half of the Arctic is in Russia, and half of Russia is in the Arctic. Oil, minerals, pollution—it's a web of complicated environmental stories that need to be told. But in Russia, investigative journalists have become an endangered species. Spend some time around a nickel smelter and meet a veteran journalist fighting to do his job.
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This graph shows the number of journalists killed in Russia since 1992.
MAP OF NORTHERN SEA ROUTE
The map shows the Murmansk Shipping Company's sea route across northern Russia.
