Threshold S2E13: Try Harder

Published December 30, 2018 at 12:00 PM MST

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Aqqalooraq Heilman-Lennart speaks three languages, plays a lot of video games, and loves jazz. Being Arctic and indigenous doesn't mean you are not part of the modern world. Sisimiut, Greenland.

Amy Martin/Threshold

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Aqqalooraq Heilman-Lennart speaks three languages, plays a lot of video games, and loves jazz. Being Arctic and indigenous doesn't mean you are not part of the modern world. Sisimiut, Greenland.

Amy Martin/Threshold

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Jim White is the director of INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Greenland.

Courtesy of Jim White

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Jim White is the director of INSTAAR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) and a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Greenland.

Courtesy of Jim White

18 months of reporting. All eight Arctic countries. So many fascinating people. On the final episode of season two of Threshold, we pull back a little and try to see the big picture. Join us as we bust some myths, travel back in time in a Swedish forest, and search for roadmaps into the future.

Each season, Threshold explores one story from the natural world, and what it says about us. Season two is all about the Arctic: what it is, what's changing there, and why that matters for everybody.

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