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Extreme Heat: Arizona to Australia

Heat kills more Americans than hurricanes and wildfires combined, yet it remains the most invisible threat of climate change. Miles O’Brien travels from a Phoenix playground redesigned to fight scorching pavement, to an Australian shade lab, to a climate chamber where he’s put under the broiler, to meet scientists engineering how humans might adapt to a hotter world.
Season 1 Episode 3 Length 27:30 Premiere: 08/26/26

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The Brain, The Pain, and Psychedelics
S1 E8 Length 28:18 Premiere Date 09/09/26

Rewiring Addiction
S1 E7 Length 27:06 Premiere Date 09/09/26

Inside Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier
S1 E6 Length 27:16 Premiere Date 09/02/26

Return of the Wild in Argentina
S1 E5 Length 27:24 Premiere Date 09/02/26

Powering Change: Offshore Wind
S1 E4 Length 27:35 Premiere Date 08/26/26

Extreme Heat: Arizona to Australia
S1 E3 Length 27:30 Premiere Date 08/26/26

Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue
S1 E2 Length 25:52 Premiere Date 08/19/26

Fighting Cow Methane With Seaweed
S1 E1 Length 28:23 Premiere Date 08/19/26

Surviving the Heat in Sydney
Clip Length 02:26 Premiere Date 08/26/26

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Preview Length 01:50 Premiere Date 08/19/26

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Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 08/19/26

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Preserving Nature in Argentina and Antarctica - S1 E3

In Argentina, jaguars are returning from extinction, and Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier shows alarming signs of collapse.

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Mindshift: Rewiring the Human Brain - S1 E4

Sound waves may rewire addiction. Psychedelics may reopen the brain's capacity to learn. Miles enrolls in a study to treat his own phantom pain.

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Weathering Change Through Wind and Heat - S1 E2

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Wild Climate Fixes from Cows and Beavers - S1 E1

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