ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Thin Ice.earth is co-hosted by polar explorer Robert Swan, OBE, and Dan Smith, Ordinary American Joe. Together, they invite you to join The Next Great Adventure: Learning to Live Sustainably on Earth.
Our focus is Antarctica, a global treasure and an important teacher. Through conversations with people creating positive change, we look at what the last great wilderness on Earth can teach us about stewardship, leadership, ourselves and our relationship with the planet we share.
Our mission is to help protect Antarctica as a reserve for science and peace by advancing more sustainable practices around the world -- and by sharing the stories of people helping to lead the way. So, jump on in. The water's icy but fine!
Follow the journey online at thinice.earth
Update frequency:
bimonthly
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
10 episodes
since April 27, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
“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…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
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…
The water is frosty but fine in this teaser episode introducing Thin Ice. Wet your whistle and jump on in!
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