# Undercurrents | 1.18.24 - Antarctic heatwaves, deep sea mining, dying matriarchs, and forest restoration, destruction and fire resilience.

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Published: 2024-01-18T14:02:00+00:00
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## Resource

Undercurrents is a podcast series from Nerdy About Nature where we discuss recent studies, reports and news from the world of environment, ecology and climate which all impact our understanding of the world and the way we relate to it. In other words, it’s all the unseen things that happen without much notice that impact the direction or flow of our society and the world we all share. This episodes topics: Norway Seabed Exploration: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00088-7 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605320000277 Forest Restoration in WA: ⁠https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13004 Orca Matriarch Death: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-biggs-killer-whale-wake-presumed-dead-1.7074033 - Citzen Science for Whale ID: https://happywhale.com/ Lack of Oldgrowth in ON & QC affecting Caribou: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/6 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/world/canada/canada-boreal-forest-logging.html Lack of Oldgrowth left in QC: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/01/10/news/push-protect-rare-old-growth-forests Antarctic Heatwave and Atmospheric River: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/3/JCLI-D-23-0175.1.xml Forest Fire Resilience in CA: https://forests.berkeley.edu/sites/forests.berkeley.edu/files/The%20Fire%20and%20Fire%20Surrogate%20Study%20Summary_2.pdf Produced by Ross Reid Hosted by Ross Reid & Julia Huggins Nerdy About Nature is a passion project whose primary goal is to provide free access for all to education about this world so that people can enjoy it more, build connection and fall in love with it, and ultimately work in ways to steward it for future generations to enjoy. We do this through short and long form videos all over social media @NerdyAboutNature, as well as this podcast…

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