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Grab your popcorn and cozy up to binge-watch an all-new five-part climate documentary series featuring everyone’s favorite nature narrator, Sir David Attenborough. On Saturday, Prince William announced The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet will premiere on October 3rd on BBC and Discovery+. The program aims to get people excited about climate action alongside the Earthshot Prize, an annual prize of £1 million awarded to five innovative projects that will improve climate and conservation.
“We are honored to partner with The Royal Foundation and our friends at BBC to bring this important work to people around the world,” said Nancy Daniels, the Chief Brand Officer for Discovery & Factual, Discovery, Inc. “The crisis facing our planet has only become even more urgent. It is crucial that we amplify these hopeful stories of innovation to preserve our natural world.”
The Colorado River is drying up, millions are at risk of losing their water supply, and Indigenous communities are fighting to keep their water rights. The Western megadrought is taking its toll on American communities, but how did we get here? In his new film, River’s End: California’s Latest Water War, Jacob Morrison delves […]
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore used data from more than 1,000 twin siblings to evaluate their opinions about environmental policy. They found identical twins were more likely to have similar views on green policy than non-identical twins, suggesting that support for climate action may have a genetic component. Felix Tropf, a professor in […]
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