Resolve to Solve
“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
“Resolve to Solve” follows veteran science journalist Miles O’Brien as he meets those tackling some of the most urgent challenges of our time.
Resolve to Solve
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.
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” is a series about the power of human ingenuity, and the quiet, stubborn conviction that even the hardest problems are worth solving.