The Climate Initiative
PBS Climate Initiative on Connecticut Public
Connecticut Public is proud to support PBS’s climate programming initiative, a bold commitment to explore environmental impacts on our planet through solutions-driven storytelling.
Tune-in for programming focused on the challenges of a changing climate while highlighting examples of positive impact.
American Experience | Poisoned Ground (Chapter One)
In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal discovered their neighborhood had been built on a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.
Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines
Over the course of a grueling eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees throughout the United States. This intimate portrait shows how hard it is to balance the physical demands of reforestation and extreme isolation while staying connected to the family back home.
Nature | Treasures of the Caribbean
A story of hope in troubling times. The discovery of a coral reef in Belize and Guatemala, larger than the size of Manhattan, marks a new chapter in understanding corals and fish that depend on each other and in saving coral reefs worldwide.
Adaptation: Floating Gardens of Bangladesh
ADAPTATION begins in the lush deltas of Bangladesh, where Alizé journeys for her research. Here she learns how communities are adapting to changing monsoons and dangerous sea level rise. Floating gardens and floating schools are just the start of some of the country’s innovative strategies.
Conexión elevates stories of Latinos across New England who spend time outdoors in ways that inspire a deeper connection with others, their heritage, and nature itself.
Watch more programs from PBS looking at Climate, Nature, and Our Planet
Re:source:ful, Growing Sustainable Communities features stories from across our state where people have used grassroots efforts to solve unique local challenges.
Connecticut Public Videos On Climate Change
NENC: Beyond Normal Series
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Trees provide a wide range of benefits, from filtering out air pollution, to improving mental health, to cooling city neighborhoods on hot summer days. -
Cover cropping, high tunnels, and no-till planting are helping these farms thrive, even as rain and heat pose challenges. -
Several global weather patterns were factors in the amount of rain that hammered the region. -
A new pilot program sends alerts to remind clinicians to talk to patients about protecting themselves on dangerously hot days, which are happening more frequently because of climate change. -
Scientists expect poison ivy will take full advantage of warmer temperatures and rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to grow faster and bigger, and become even more toxic. -
More intense storms, rising sea levels, toxic algae blooms, and other environmental crises are making it harder for tribes to practice their culture and to pass it on. -
Advocates for New England's cold-water fish — trout and salmon — say changes to their habitats are already impacting their longevity. -
In New England, with extreme temperatures and excessive rain, it's been a tough growing year. While the increasing warmth could allow for new plant varieties and a longer growing season in the Northeast, southern diseases are also heading this way. -
Public health experts aren't sure how many people die because of the heat each year, because there's no standard for what constitutes a "heat-related" death. -
Heat, poor air quality, rain and flooding affected New England summer theater this year.
Connecticut Public Podcasts: Episodes Exploring Climate Change
Disrupted
The Colin McEnroe Show
Connecticut Garden Journal
Where We Live
- Examining links between climate distress and climate action
- Exploring sea jellies on Connecticut's coastline and beyond
- Connecticut coral could play a key role in climate resilience
- Understanding how climate change is impacting our health and wellbeing (and what you can do about it)
- Small solutions to climate change that make a big impact
- A look at environmental justice efforts in Connecticut: 'It's everybody's problem'
- In 'Reciprocity Project,' Indigenous voices reframe our relationship to the Earth
- Many beach-nesting birds in Connecticut face an "uncertain future"
Climate in the News
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(CIRCA/Jim O’Donnell)After years of warning from scientists, the global climate crisis is impacting Americans across the country. This hour on Disrupted, we dig into the ways our changing climate is affecting our state. -
Ryan Caron King/Connecticut PublicA panel titled “Oceans, Our Global Watchdog,” featuring Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Camille Gaynus, Dr. Elizabeth McLeod and Dr. Tiara Moore. Topics include climate change and who is most affected by it. -
New Haven Climate MovementDoes alarm or concern around climate change drive action? How can public messengers address feelings of "fatalism"? This hour, we hear from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, NBC Connecticut meteorologist Rachael Jay and New Haven Climate Movement youth organizer Adrian Huq.
