Mysteries of the Bering Strait

The Bering Strait seems 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. Guest: Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University and author of “Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait”