درباره این پادکست 🔗

میزبان‌ها:
فرکانس به روز رسانی:
bimonthly
میانگین طول صدا:
35 minutes
مصاحبه های مهمان
انگلیسی
ایالات متحده آمریکا
10 قسمت
از سال 27 آوریل 2025
episodic

آخرین اپیزود 🔗

“Girls weren’t allowed” in the aeronautical engineering classes Anne Kershaw wanted as a student in Glasgow. She studied civil engineering instead, at night, and sent out résumés as “Mr. Campbell” because firms wouldn’t interview a woman. She got the job—and later built an Antarctic air operation s…

جستجوی اپیزودهای گذشته

اپیزودهای قبلی Thin Ice.earth را جستجو کن.

اپیزود قبلی

With more than 8 billion people on Earth, can one person really make a difference? Laure de Panafieu, a senior leader at global law firm Linklaters, found her answer in a handful of South American pebbles gathered during a beach cleanup before her voyage to Antarctica. Those ordinary stones became …
Season 2 of Thin Ice begins by revisiting the past to gain a new perspective on the future.  Forty years after one of the most defining and disruptive moments of his life, polar explorer Robert Swan returns to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. This time, not as a young man chasing history, but as …
Recorded December 11 from Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica, this episode explores one of the biggest, and least discussed, climate challenges: heating and cooling the world's buildings. This source emits an estimated 15% or more of global greenhouse gas emissions, including the impact of leake…
In this episode of Thin Ice, co-hosts Robert Swan, OBE, and Dan Smith, OJ (Ordinary Joe) explore the fascinating intersection of exploration, technology and sustainability. Robert reflects on the 40th anniversary of his historic South Pole expedition, when he and his team navigated to the South Pol…
Where does a 5-ton elephant eat? Anywhere it wants to, including the fields of small farmers. Elephant incursions on small farms have often provoked violent attacks by humans protecting their livelihood, which often spurs counterattacks by elephants fighting for their own lives and families. The re…
“The Good Seed” tells the story of 30-year-old Barney Swan, who launched an effort several years ago to regenerate 527 razed acres of Australia’s Daintree Rainforest. Born in London but reared among the wild things of the world’s oldest rainforest, a young Barney also accompanied his father – Rober…
In “The Sinking of Southern Quest: May Day M’aider Part 2,” Robert Swan and William Fenton share what happened after their ship was trapped in Antarctic pack ice in 1986 (the title is a bit of a spoiler). They also recount the James Bond-style resistance from government agencies that opposed the fi…
It’s May Day — a time to honor the bounty of nature and hard work, and a distress call derived from French, m’aider ("help me"). So, this is a perfect day to launch Thin Ice, which celebrates nature and the hard work of preserving wild spaces while sounding an international plea for actio…

Thin Ice Teaser

The water is frosty but fine in this teaser episode introducing Thin Ice. Wet your whistle and jump on in!
سلب مسئولیت: پادکست و آثار هنری تعبیه شده در این صفحه متعلق به Dan@ThinIce.earth است که متعلق به صاحب آن است و به Listen Notes، Inc وابسته یا تایید نشده است.