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Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien
Extreme Heat: Arizona to Australia
Season 1
Episode 3
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.
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Oil drillers are repurposing fracking tech to tap a nearly limitless clean power source: Heat.
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The river that built the American West is running dry, and everyone wants what’s left.
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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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Beavers are nature’s engineers who are reviving areas of the drought-stricken West.
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Cow burps are heating the planet, and one dairy farmer’s seaweed fix might help cool it down.