Subarctic

Its wide-track landing gear made it forgiving to land on rough, snowy, improvised forest airfields, and it was fighting over their homeland.

Finnish ground crews performed miracles keeping the Wright Cyclone engines running in sub-zero, sub-Arctic winters.

So ultimately, the Brewster succeeded in Finland because it was matched against the right adversary at the right altitude, flown by some of the most talented fighter pilots of the war.

In Finnish Air Force service, the Brewster Model 239 achieved an astonishing total combat score, racking up somewhere around 477 enemy aircraft destroyed for 19 aircraft lost, giving an incredible overall kill-to-loss ratio of roughly 26:1.

Um, you know, we think Madison County, we think, you know, lush fields, we think trees, we think all that.

And, you know, we understand sub-Arctic, we have winter coming, but, um, kind of, can you paint a picture for us? Kind of maybe what it kind of looked like and what the people were that you, from what you're finding, what they may have been doing, how they were living.

Sure.

So when I say subarctic climate, you would, that kind of landscape and environment, you have to go to the Labrador Peninsula today in Canada to find a similar setting.

Why? Around the same time, researcher Kevin Gull pointed towards a different corner of Canadian Bigfoot history, something just as strange and just as hidden.

Up to that point, the picture of the Canadian wild man lore leaned mostly on First Nations stories, a few fur trade accounts, and scattered skettler tales from the sub-Arctic.

The broader assumption was that non-Indigenous stories didn't really show up until the 20th century, especially around the Pacific Northwest.

Recently, digital newspaper archives have exploded in the last few years, and search tools behind them have gotten sharper.

These are home batteries instead of peaker plants.

Maine stuffed six figures of heat pumps into sub-Arctic winter and then told the fossil crowd to collect.

Texas, not exactly Berkeley, they're leading in wind and are piling on solar and storage because the free market spreadsheet said, do it.

The UK broke up with coal after 150 years and hasn't looked back.

Um, there's a move in France, for example, to try to open a, a facility, um, growing salmon in the south of France, which is far outside its, its sort of survivable zone in terms of, um, temperature.

What do you think this means for the industry, which has previously been restricted in terms of only really growing in the Arctic or sub-Arctic, and now it's trying to expand elsewhere? Do you, do you think the industry could really explode? Do, do you not see that being a practical solution?

Um, well, mm, what you, what you gain when you do that, um, is that, um, when you move it on land, there's, there's no, um, uh, salmon louse.

So you, you avoid those parasites.

donna watched him furtively as she began the tedious task of hunting through the galactic pilot of this sector two hundred odd volumes for even a stray reference to the planet ades ultimately she did find ades mentioned not in the bound volumes of the pilot but in the microfilm abbreviated galactic directory ADES rated just three lines of type.

Its space coordinates, the spectral type of its sun, a climate-atmosphere symbol which indicated that three-fourths of its surface experienced sub-Arctic conditions, and the memo, its borderline habitability caused it to be chosen as a penal colony at a very early date.

Landing upon it is forbidden under all circumstances.

A patrol ship is on guard." the memorandum was quaint now that no space line had operated in five centuries no exploring ship in nearly two and the space patrol itself had been disbanded three hundred years since h'm chem said if we need it not too bad people could survive on ades people probably have and they wouldn't be sheep anyhow how far away is it donna asked uneasily we have enough fuel for thirty-five light-years travel you said "'Andez is just about halfway across the galaxy,' he told her.

Fuente de la imagen, Susanna Zimmermanov.

Llevo apenas unas horas en Oulu, Finlandia, una ciudad situada en la zona subártica, cuando me sorprende un aguacero de finales de verano.

Image source, Susanna Zimmermanov.

I've been in Oulu, Finland, a city located in the subarctic zone, for just a few hours when I'm surprised by a downpour at the end of summer.

Fuente de la imagen, Susanna Zimmermanov.

Llevo apenas unas horas en Oulu, Finlandia, una ciudad situada en la zona subártica, cuando me sorprende un aguacero de finales de verano.

Me refugio en una cafetera y pido un café y un pannukakku, un panqueque grueso espolvoreado con azúcar.

I take refuge in a coffee shop and order a coffee and a pannukakku, a thick pancake sprinkled with sugar.

She has worked in marine habitats all over the world and is fortunate enough to have seen and recorded these whales in every ocean in which they occur.

Stafford's current research focuses on the changing acoustic environment of the Arctic and how changes from declining sea ice to increasing industrial human use may be influencing sub-Arctic and Arctic marine mammals.

And today she is chatting with us specifically about her research on bowhead whales and their very unique song.

And did I mention that these whales can live up to approximately 200 years? 200 years.