Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien
Journalist Miles O’Brien meets the scientists, innovators and problem solvers tackling some of the world’s most urgent challenges. He travels the globe to learn how science and ingenuity are dealing with issues such as extreme heat, methane emissions from cattle, brain disorders and shrinking water supplies.
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- Ep 1
1.Fighting Cow Methane with Seaweed
19-08-202629 minIt’s a wispy red seaweed that can cut cattle methane by 50, 80, even 98%. Miles O’Brien travels from a Marin County, California, dairy to seaweed farms in Mexico, a UC Davis resear...
- Ep 2
2.Dam it; Beavers to the Rescue
19-08-202626 minThere 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 thes...
- Ep 3
3.Extreme Heat: Arizona to Australia
26-08-202627 minHeat 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 redesi...
- Ep 4
4.Powering Change: Offshore Wind
26-08-202627 minNew Bedford, Massachusetts, made its fortune hunting whales for oil. Nearly two centuries later, Mayor Jon Mitchell is wagering the city’s comeback on offshore wind. Miles O’Brien...
- Ep 5
5.Return of the Wild in Argentina
02-09-202627 minKris Tompkins went from Patagonia CEO to conservation visionary, spending her fortune with late husband Doug to protect over 16 million acres in Chile and Argentina. Miles O’Brien...
- Ep 6
6.Inside Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier
02-09-202628 minThwaites Glacier is melting faster than any glacier on Earth, and its collapse could raise global sea levels by feet, not inches. Miles O’Brien sails to Antarctica aboard a Korean...
- Ep 7
7.Rewiring Addiction
09-09-202628 minAli Rezai believes he can rewire the addicted brain without a scalpel. Using focused ultrasound aimed at the brain’s reward center, his West Virginia team has helped patients battl...
- Ep 8
8.The Brain, The Pain, and Psychedelics
09-09-202629 minWhen explorer Albert Lin’s phantom limb pain vanished after one dose of psilocybin, he sought the science behind it. Miles O’Brien, also an amputee living with phantom pain, joins...
- Ep 9
9.Colorado River Reckoning
16-09-202628 minA century ago, seven states divided the Colorado River based on faulty math. Now, as climate change shrinks the snowpack that feeds it, the river delivers a third less water than i...
- Ep 10
10.Geothermal: Drilling Deep for Power
16-09-202628 minBeneath our feet lies a nearly endless supply of clean energy. Miles O’Brien traces the unlikely rise of enhanced geothermal power, from a Cold War-era experiment at Los Alamos to...
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