Ice and Fire

Listen to climate change in Alaska through place-based narrative. Ice and Fire is a podcast that uses audio storytelling to share cryosphere change as the global climate warms. The cryosphere is all of Earth's frozen surface water including frozen freshwater lakes, glaciers, permafrost and sea ice -- frozen saltwater. It only takes a small temperature increase for water to melt or thaw from solid into liquid form, yet a cascade of impacts result when we lose ice to fastly flowing liquid. Season one emphasizes the significance of glacier melt, and connects listeners to distant glaciers rapidly responding to anthropogenic climate change through dialogue with researchers, traditional knowledge-bearers, and by sharing audio of ice-melt in real time. Season two, available now, is all about permafrost thaw.

Ice and Fire is a science podcast hosted by Sol Creative, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sol Creative hosts Ice and Fire, a science show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  adaptation: managed retreat

  Aug 16, 202528 minS2

  <p>In the closing episode of the Permafrost Thaw season, we hear stories of landscape change that have long-sustained and been observed by Native people in Alaska's Kuskokwim River area. We hear their stories of adaptation, including managed retreat of buildings away from rapidly eroding riverbanks.</p><p>We are reminded of ways in which permafrost thaw relates to distant, global populations.</p><p><b>topics and purpose:</b> changes to the land described by the Yup'ik people, and adaptation approaches in present times</p><p><b>terms defined:</b> prevention, adaptation and managed retreat</p><p><b>notes: </b>...

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  Episode #6

  usteq

  Jun 10, 202523 minS2

  <p>In this episode, we learn the Yup'ik term for climate change-induced catastrophic land collapse, which occurs due to permafrost thaw, erosion, and flooding: Usteq.</p><p>We hear several definitions of the term, utilized by researchers and the government, and learn how these land changes are impacting communities in Western Alaska, in real-time.</p><p><b>topics and purpose:</b> the long observed changes to the land described by the Yup'ik people, and related stress in present times</p><p><b>terms defined:</b> usteq, land subsidence, divestment</p><p><b>notes: </b>Learn more about climate friendly financial...

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  Episode #5

  the carbon cycle and us

  Apr 10, 202516 minS2

  <p>In this episode, we breathe and feel our human connection to the short carbon cycle. Long-sequestered carbon stores from deep underground -- as oil reservoirs or within frozen permafrost -- are brought to the surface by human activity, and then converted into greenhouse gases. These gases, like CO2 and methane (CH4), float into Earth's atmosphere, circulate, and trap heat -- causing the planet to warm. We have thrown the carbon cycle out of balance.</p><p><b>topics and purpose:</b> how humans participate with the carbon cycle, and how to enact systemic change for a climate-positive future</p><...

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  Episode #4

  woolly mammoth bones

  Mar 12, 202513 minS2

  <p>In episode four we learn about carbon stored within woolly mammoth bones and ancient plants, long held within the walls of the the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory's permafrost tunnel located near Fairbanks, Alaska. </p><p>Forty thousand years ago permafrost trapped microbes, rock, and sediment when water froze around it all. The ground ice also captured ancient plants and mammal bones, making carbon stores visually apparent as permafrost oxidizes or thaws. These processes also have an odor.</p><p><b>topics and purpose:</b> What all is in permafrost and emerges as it thaws?</p><p><b>t...

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  Episode #3

  microbes reawaken

  Jan 22, 202513 minS2

  <p>In episode three of Ice and Fire, we hear about a microbial reawakening of microscopic life that was frozen into permafrost, often for thousands of years. These small life forms spring back when permafrost thaws. Though individually tiny, microbial communities -- composed of bacteria, fungi, and archaea -- have substantial impact to Earth, including the greenhouse gases they emit when they metabolize and perform cellular respiration.</p><p><b>topics and purpose:</b> the significance of microbes to the atmosphere and global warming as permafrost thaws</p><p><b>terms defined:</b> microbes and microbial communities</p><p><b>...

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