Floating Coast
Mysteries of the Bering Strait
Guest:\xa0Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, and author of \u201cFloating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait\u201d
The Bearing Stait\xa0seems so remote and forbidding, but this scholar lived there herself before she entered university, with sled dogs and all. She came away with a deep appreciation for the ecological systems and the energy sources found in this dramatic landscape. Do you ever think of a whale as an energy source? She argues that you should.
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The Search for the World\u2019s Largest and Most Elusive Owl
Guest: Jonathan Slaght, Russia and Northeast Asia Coordinator, Wildlife Conservation Society, and author of \u201cOwls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World\u2019s Largest Owl\u201d
Jonathan Slaght has spent years tracking down and mapping out the elusive and almost mythical giant fish owls in Primorye, a beautiful yet unforgiving wild landscape in a remote province of Russia. Along his journey, he met a host of colorful characters.