The sub-Arctic area stretching across Canada, Scandinavia and Russia stores as much carbon in its soil as the Amazon rainforest. In this episode Hannah Fry meets Snowchange Cooperative to understand how their work rewilding this habitat will help keep that carbon in the ground — and help ensure bio-security for the whole planet. Recorded remotely in March 2021 Links

Snowchange Cooperative’s website: http://www.snowchange.org/ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which Tero Mustonen is a lead author https://www.ipcc.ch/ A map of Selkie, Finland: https://goo.gl/maps/Ly6zyaiV44pW5Bvx7 Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge.