Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien
On “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien,” meet the optimists, innovators and true believers who are tackling the urgent challenges of our time.
'Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien' premieres August 19
Aug. 19
Embark on a global journey seeking solutions to our urgent climate crisis alongside journalist Miles O’Brien. From the Colorado River to the wetlands in Argentina and Antarctica's doomsday glacier, the answers are closer than we think.
Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien
The problems are real. The stakes are high. And the solutions, when you find them, are often hiding in the most unexpected places. “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien” is an hour-long documentary series in which veteran science journalist Miles O’Brien travels the world to meet the optimists, innovators and true believers who are tackling some of the most urgent challenges of our time, and refusing to give up until they find answers.
The series opens with two stories that prove big solutions can come in small packages. A red seaweed fed to cattle in tiny amounts can slash methane emissions by more than 90%. And beavers, once nearly hunted to extinction, are quietly reshaping the American West, building wetlands that fight drought and wildfire with nothing more than mud, sticks and instinct.
Join us on Thursday, August 13, 2026, at the Orpheum Theatre in Flagstaff for a premiere celebration event for “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien.” Taking place at 7 p.m. with doors scheduled to open at 6 p.m., the event will feature a screening of the series’ premiere episode. Learn more, and purchase tickets below.
In the second episode, O’Brien explores the deadly science of extreme heat, following researchers in Phoenix, Arizona, and Sydney, Australia, who are redesigning everything from city streets to children’s playgrounds to protect the most vulnerable, while in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a former whaling port is betting its future on offshore wind, navigating political headwinds and economic uncertainty to help power a cleaner grid.
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In the third episode, O’Brien travels to some of the most remote places on Earth. In Argentina’s vast Iberá Wetlands, conservationist Kris Tompkins is putting jaguars, giant river otters and other lost species back where they belong, a breathtaking act of ecological restoration that is as much about hope as it is about science. Then O’Brien joins a scientific expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the so-called Doomsday Glacier, where an international team of researchers is racing to gather data that could determine the future of the world’s coastlines, and where one audacious scientist is exploring whether a massive underwater barrier might buy the planet some time.
Taken together, “Resolve to Solve with Miles O’Brien” is a series about the power of human ingenuity, and the quiet, stubborn conviction that even the hardest problems are worth solving.
Made possible in part by support provided by Sue Hart-Wadley and Searle Wadley.
Additional support from Jerry Cox.
Miles O'Brien
Miles O’Brien is a veteran, independent journalist who focuses on science, technology and aerospace. He is the science correspondent for the PBS News Hour, a producer, director, writer and correspondent for the PBS documentary programs “NOVA” and “Frontline” and an aviation analyst for CNN. He owns MOBIAS Media, Inc., a production company that creates award winning documentary films primarily for PBS as well as several educational and corporate clients.
For nearly 17 of his 39 years in the news business, he was a staff correspondent and anchor with CNN, based in Atlanta and New York. He served as the science, environment and aerospace correspondent and the anchor of various programs, including “American Morning.”
While at CNN, O’Brien secured a deal with NASA to become the first journalist to fly on the space shuttle. The project ended with the loss of Columbia and her crew in 2003, a story he told to the world in a critically acclaimed 16-hour marathon of live coverage. He later served for 10 years as a member of the NASA Advisory Council, offering strategic advice to the NASA administrator.
O’Brien has won numerous awards over the years, including six Emmys®, a Peabody and a DuPont.
In February 2014, a heavy equipment case fell on O’Brien’s forearm while he was on assignment. He developed Acute Compartment Syndrome, which necessitated the emergency amputation of his left arm above the elbow. Despite the loss of his arm, O’Brien has completed two marathons, several ultra-distance bike rides, a half Ironman and has returned to flying airplanes.