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Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien
Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue
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There were once 400 million beavers in North America until trapping nearly wiped them out. Miles O’Brien travels from a Wyoming ranch to a Minnesota lab tracing the rebound of these industrious rodents. Rancher Tom Chant is a “beaver believer” after seeing his dry and dusty creek turn lush once beaver dams moved in, proving nature’s original engineers may be the West’s best hope against drought.
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Could psychedelics cure phantom limb pain? Amputee Miles O’Brien puts it to the test.
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Ultrasound waves, no surgery: doctors may have found a way to silence addiction and cravings.
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Scientists race to reach Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” before it’s too late to understand it.
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A former executive is bringing jaguars back to a wilderness in Argentina.
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A former mobster hunter turned mayor bets his fading city’s future on offshore wind.
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Extreme heat is the deadliest climate disaster. Scientists in Phoenix and Sydney race to adapt.
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Cow burps are heating the planet, and one dairy farmer’s seaweed fix might help cool it down.