Threshold

Series produced by Auricle Productions

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

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

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

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

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


47 Pieces

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For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the most u...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 46:32
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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 44:52
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A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:24:16
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We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to do—and have the technology to do it—r...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:02:39
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This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we look at what climate chaos could do to our ability to meet our basic needs and live ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:40
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In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 48:25
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There are quite a few things working against us when it comes to understanding how urgently we need to act on climate change. But there's also the ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 38:43
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After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 46:29
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Humanity has a mission right now, whether we recognize it or not: to keep global heating to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 2.7 F) over pre...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 03:37
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


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

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: :32
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Caption: A polar bear ambles across a grassy plain just outside Kaktovik, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
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Caption: Sarah James on her four-wheeler in Arctic Village, Alaska, Credit: Amy Martin
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:31
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Caption: Robert Thompson, Kaktovik polar bear guide, Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
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Caption: Vebjørn Aishana Reitan, polar bear guide and certified U.S. Coast Guard captain, on the refuge., Credit: Nick Mott
The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

Bought by KSKQ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, Prairie Public, WITF and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
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The Refuge takes a deep dive into the controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, with a particular focus on potentia...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:56
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Join us on a journey into a permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:57
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Caption: A boat floats off the coast of Shishmaref, Credit: Nick Mott
What is the Arctic? Who lives there? How are their lives changing as the climate warms? In this Earth Day Special, we take listeners on a three-par...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:31
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Caption: The sea wall, just like the coast, is gradually wearing away., Credit: Nick Mott
Promos for Threshold's one-hour Earth Day Special

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2