WATERTOWN, NY (June 12, 2024) – In a critical year for ocean science and health, PBS is intensifying its commitment, complementing the multiyear climate initiative, and marking a crucial step towards enhancing awareness and tackling the urgent challenges our oceans face. WPBS-TV continues its focus on ocean and freshwater-centered programming, emphasizing PBS’s pivotal role in addressing the changing climate, with the premiere of two new docuseries on June 19, 2024.
DYNAMIC PLANET
An epic new series, filmed over three years, travels to the extremes on all seven continents to meet an extraordinary group of people and animals living and working on the front line of climate change. They reveal how science, nature and tradition can prepare us for the future. Premiering Wednesdays at 8 pm, beginning June 19, 2024 on WPBS-TV, watch.wpbstv.org, PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS app.
HOPE IN THE WATER
Travel the globe to discover the creative solutions and breakthrough blue food technologies that could not only feed us but help save our threatened seas and fresh waterways. The series highlights the stories of amazing innovators, aquafarmers, and fishers who are working toward a sustainable future for the planet. This three-part series premieres Wednesdays at 9 pm, beginning June 19, 2024 on WPBS-TV, watch.wpbstv.org, PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS app.
More titles coming later in the year, include:
SEA CHANGE, a special presentation of NOVA, is a story about a sea within the sea, a body of water that is warming 99% faster than the global ocean. What happens here, for the animals in the water, for the jobs dependent upon them, and for the millions of people along its shores, is likely to happen worldwide. We are at a crossroads for the future of the Gulf – and our oceans. Does it retain enough of its biodiversity and regenerative strength to weather the human-induced storm? Is the sheer beauty of the place and spectacular range of its creatures enough to wake us to the stakes? A fascinating tale about a regional location with profound global implications, this three-part prime time documentary series premieres July 24, 2024 at 9 pm on WPBS-TV, watch.wpbstv.org, PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS app and the NOVA YouTube channel. A digital series produced by indigenous filmmakers in collaboration with Vision Maker Media and NOVA accompanies SEA CHANGE.
WEATHERED, based on the hit YouTube series on PBS Terra, is evolving into a six-episode longform series that uses weather and natural disasters to draw viewers into gripping stories about climate science. This first season features a range of ocean-related climate stories, from the coral reef collapse in Florida to melting ice caps to the connection between ocean currents and sea level rise. The series will reveal how we can prepare for these extremes as well as the groundbreaking solutions scientists and everyday people are exploring to make these weather events less likely in the future. Premiering August 2024 on the PBS App and YouTube.
Educational resources drawing on content from these programs will be available through PBS LearningMedia. Available for free to all educators pre-K through 12th grade, PBS LearningMedia offers classroom-ready content aligned to state and national standards, compatible with the tools teachers use most, such as Google Classroom, and contextualized with supporting materials.
About WPBS
WPBS is a PBS station serving approximately 650,000 households throughout Northern New York and Eastern Ontario via cable, satellite, Internet and over-the-air distribution. WPBS is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate, inform, and engage its two-nation region with exceptional and trusted content across multiple platforms. Its vision is to be the premier provider of extraordinary public media that instills wonder and curiosity across generations and borders. More information about WPBS, including a full channel listing, is available at wpbstv.org, or by following WPBS on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
