Alejandra Borunda
speaker
325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Alejandra Borunda’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Years of planning, weeks of travel, and swimming gave us a cute poppy and another unidentified moss.
Yeah, there really was.
Honestly, more than we expected.
And that's probably partly because climate change is making it easier for plants to survive, especially in the summer season, like what we were in.
But plants weren't all we saw.
We actually also ran into this little stoat, which is like a tiny weasel, living in a pile of rocks on the island.
And he was the size of a tube sock and he was completely unafraid.
We called him Randall.
This is Randall attacking the audio recorder.
Oh, yeah.
He had no fear at all.
So this is one of the fastest warming areas on the planet.
And that warming is driving huge ecological change across the Arctic.
But like Brian said, this was a blank spot on the map.
And no one knew whether that warming and change was happening here today.
Oh, I see.
And so the main goal of this trip was really just to put a line in the sand, you know, to witness and to catalog what's up there now, the poppies and the mosses and the sex fridges, so that when scientists go back in 20 or 50 or 100 years, they'll know what else has changed.
Yeah, I think that's a really good question.
And honestly, for me, it was just this moment to live in this wonder about the world that we live in, to see this very, very special place, the edge of the terrestrial world.
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