Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
Dynamic Planet Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
Earth
Wed, Dec 20, 2023
As our Earth's climate changes, the once-stable natural systems that we rely upon are being thrown into chaos. Insect plagues are destroying farmlands, extreme weather events and floods are hitting land with increased frequency, and normality for our planet is constantly being re-defined. As temperatures rise and weather patterns change, the world as we know it transforming. Ancient connections between plants, animals and people are undermined. The rules that dictated stability have been re-written with new climate change winners and losers exposed. But despite this grim prognosis, an extraordinary group of people living and working on the front line of climate change offer hope for the future. We join scientists traveling to the frozen continent to discover how animals are creating new opportunities in a fast-changing world. We follow butterflies as they take part in nature's most spectacular migration and meet indigenous landowners in the Amazon and on the great plains of America who are healing their homelands, creating resilience and supporting nature as it finds its own solution. Their efforts show that it's not too late to adapt, to fix past mistakes, and to care for and protect the places we live. They reveal how science, nature and tradition can help prepare us and our Dynamic Planet for a fast-changing future.
Episode 2
Water
Wed, Dec 20, 2023
Earth's oceans are crucial for life. They cover 70% of our planet, remove vast amounts of carbon and heat from the atmosphere, and provide much of our food. But as the world warms, oceans are changing, with far-reaching consequences for the life they contain and the people that rely upon them. As polar ice melts, coastlines flood, and marine systems are thrown into a state of flux. Meanwhile, teams of extraordinary experts from all over the world are embarking on urgent voyages of discovery to understand these changes and are undertaking ambitious projects to protect what's most at threat. Journeying from the coldest waters of Antarctica to those reaching new record temperature highs in Australia, these teams reveal how some species are being pushed to their limits, while others are adapting, offering hope to the health of our carbon-storing oceans. We travel on an Antarctic icebreaker for a cutting-edge scientific expedition to learn the shocking truth about sea level rise and see how rising tides in Florida are affect iconic key deer. In Antarctica, A New Zealand whale rider journeys in search of whales and a group of conservationists race to save the Great Barrier Reef, while in Mexico locals help rescue sea turtles from the surprising impacts of climate change. Marine biologists, climate scientists, indigenous knowledge holders, conservationists and city planners show us how science, nature and tradition can help prepare for a fast-changing future, and that a diversity of knowledge is needed when understanding and mitigating climate change.
Episode 3
Fire
54 mins
As the planet heats up, those fighting climate change show how science, nature and tradition can prepare us for the future.
Episode 4
Ice
Wed, Dec 20, 2023
Ice at the planet's poles and mountain peaks is changing drastically. Much will disappear completely this century. These icescapes are transforming, but the impact of the melt goes much further - nowhere on the planet is immune from the sometimes unexpected consequences. As frozen water melts from glaciers, polar ice caps and sea ice it changes weather patterns and ocean currents and the world as we know it becomes less recognizable. The race is now on to understand and protect the planet's icy places as they warm four times faster than the rest of the planet. Journeying from the frozen poles of Antarctica and the Artic to the vast plateaus and soaring peaks of the Himalayas, an extraordinary team of experts offer hope for a future with less ice. We climb into glaciers and get up close with seals, humpback whales and polar bears to understand how life is changing and nature is adapting and capture never seen before animal behavior on film. We join an Innuit hunter on his dog sled in Greenland navigating changing sea ice, a yak herder in Tibet who now photographs snow leopards and indigenous engineers in northern India preserving what ice is left. Their actions highlight what is at threat, and the determination needed to forge a new path as landscapes change around them. They reveal how nature finds a way, and how science, and tradition can help prepare us and our Dynamic Planet for a fast-changing future.
