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Unexplainable Podcast - Amazing Extremophiles

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Unexplainable Podcast - Amazing Extremophiles

Host Byrd Pinkerton invites Brad Vogel and Elizabeth Hénaff to talk about the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal after the EPA designated it a Superfund site. The cleanup plan involves dredging up contaminated sludge—nicknamed “black mayonnaise”—processing it, and capping parts of the canal. While this intervention aims to remove toxic waste, it raised an important question: what kind of life already exists in that extreme, polluted environment?

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