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YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY covers crucial issues, like severe hurricanes, deforestation, the solar energy crisis, climate migrants, historic droughts and the rapidly increasing extinction rate of our planet’s wildlife. Below, you’ll find guides to each of our stories.

Season 2 Ep 8

The Coal Wars

with America Ferrera

The Coal Wars

Even though coal plants are shutting down across the country, coal remains a major source of energy in the U.S. America Ferrera journeys to Illinois, where a still-functioning coal plant is creating tension.

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Season 2 Ep 8

Elephant in the Room

with Sigourney Weaver

Elephant in the Room

Sigourney Weaver explores China’s explosive economic growth and the impact it is having on the environment.

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Season 2 Ep 7

The Road Ahead

with Ty Burrell

The Road Ahead

Actor Ty Burrell takes to the road to see the environmental revolutions being made in electric vehicles and automated vehicles.

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Season 2 Ep 7

Safe Passage

with Bradley Whitford

Safe Passage

Bradley Whitford travels to Capitol Hill to explore the growing movement to get Republicans to admit that climate change is real.

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Season 2 Ep 6

Price on Carbon

with Nikki Reed

Price on Carbon

Actress and activist Nikki Reed explores what some believe to be the ultimate solution for climate change: putting a price on carbon.

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Season 2 Ep 6

The Sixth Extinction

with Aasif Mandvi

The Sixth Extinction

Aasif Mandvi travels to Africa where the least is understood about climate change and animal extinction, but where the stakes are highest.

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Season 2 Ep 4

The Battle in the Forest

with Gisele Bündchen

The Battle in the Forest

Supermodel Gisele Bündchen travels to her home country to learn about the battle to save the Amazon.

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Season 2 Ep 3

Out of Africa

with Thomas L. Friedman

Out of Africa

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman investigates whether a changing climate could also be one of the drivers of Europe’s migration crisis.

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Season 2 Ep 3

Death of the Central Valley

with Don Cheadle

Death of the Central Valley

Don Cheadle is on the ground in California, where the worst drought in 1,200 years is devastating the nation’s most populous state.

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Season 2 Ep 5

Collapse of the Oceans

with Joshua Jackson

Collapse of the Oceans

Joshua Jackson investigates the one place on Earth where the impacts of climate change are most profound yet practically invisible: the oceans.

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Season 2 Ep 4

National Insecurity

with Arnold Schwarzenegger

National Insecurity

Arnold Schwarzenegger sets out to explore the military’s relationship with a changing climate.

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Season 2 Ep 2

Saving Miami

with Jack Black

Saving Miami

If nothing is done to curb carbon emissions, Miami is in danger of being underwater by the end of the century.

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Season 2 Ep 2

Storms of the Future

with Ian Somerhalder

Storms of the Future

Ian Somerhalder investigates the threat of future superstorms.

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Season 2 Ep 1

Blocking the Sun

with Cecily Strong

Blocking the Sun

Cecily Strong travels to Florida and Nevada to investigate what’s blocking the growth of solar energy in the U.S. 

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Season 2 Ep 1

Into the Light

with David Letterman

Into the Light

David Letterman travels to India to find out how this country—soon to be the world’s most populous—will bring power to all its people.

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Season 1

Exclusive Interview with the President

with Thomas L. Friedman

Exclusive Interview with the President

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Season 1 Ep 2

Fire Line

with Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fire Line

Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wildland firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fire, one made more deadly by climate change.

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Season 1 Ep 8

The Future is Now

with Michael C. Hall

The Future is Now

Michael C. Hall journeys to the low-lying deltaic country of Bangladesh, where the future is now. Rising seas are expected to submerge 17% of this nation, the worlds’ most vulnerable to climate change.

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Season 1 Ep 8

Mercury Rising

with Matt Damon

Mercury Rising

Matt Damon investigates the impact of extreme heat and heat waves on human health and mortality.  Rising temperatures are a silent killer of thousands, tens of thousands and perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.

 

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Season 1 Ep 7

Climate Corps

with Jessica Alba

Climate Corps

Jessica Alba meets three members of Climate Corps, an innovative program where MBA students help major corporations save money, and help climate change, through energy efficiency programs.

 

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Season 1 Ep 5

Chasing Methane

with Mark Bittman

Chasing Methane

Correspondent Mark Bittman conducts a yearlong investigation to see whether natural gas is an ideal energy source, and a way towards a cleaner, greener future.

 

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Season 1 Ep 3

Over the Edge

with Chris Hayes

Photo: The Years Project / Tim Freccia

Over the Edge

Chris Hayes visits the residents of Far Rockaway, a poor neighborhood on the margins of New York City. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, some found themselves pushed over the edge.

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Season 1 Ep 4

Under the Ice

with Lesley Stahl

Under the Ice

Correspondent Lesley Stahl goes to Greenland to investigate the effects of global warming in the Artic and what happens to the planet if oil companies get their way and extract the Arctic’s riches.

 

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Season 1 Ep 1

Climate Wars

with Thomas L. Friedman

Climate Wars

YEARS correspondent Thomas L. Friedman explores how climate change has pushed a volatile political situation over the edge in Egypt, Syria and Yemen.

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Season 1 Ep 3

The Scientist

with M. Sanjayan

The Scientist

M. Sanjayan travels to the ends of the earth to question some of the top climate scientists as they unlock the past and future of our planet’s changing climate.

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Season 1 Ep 3

Rising Tide

with Chris Hayes

Rising Tide

Correspondent Chris Hayes follows Congressman Michael Grimm to see what he can do for the residents of Staten Island after Sandy– and what he might learn about climate change.

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Season 1 Ep 5

The Governor

with Olivia Munn

The Governor

Correspondent Olivia Munn profiles the nation’s most climate-conscious governor, Jay Inslee, and reports on what he’ll do about the coal export depots.

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Season 1 Ep 6

Against the Wind

with America Ferrera

Against the Wind

Correspondent America Ferrera profiles prominent climate skeptic James Taylor as he crusades against clean energy, and investigates the battle over the future of renewable energy.

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Season 1 Ep 5

Christie and the Storm

with Mark Bittman

Christie and the Storm

New York Times columnist Mark Bittman wants to know why Chris Christie isn’t acknowledging climate change as he rebuilds New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy.

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Season 1 Ep 1

Last Stand

with Harrison Ford

Last Stand

In Last Stand, Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to investigate the palm oil industry and its impacts on greenhouse gases through deforestation.

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Season 1 Ep 1

Pray for Rain

with Don Cheadle

Pray for Rain

In 2013, Cargill, the largest privately-held company in the U.S., closed down its huge meat-packing plant in Plainview, TX.  Don Cheadle visits Plainview and finds that most people blame the drought on the will of God or say it’s part of a natural cycle.

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Season 1 Ep 4

Preacher’s Daughter

with Ian Somerhalder

Preacher’s Daughter

In Preacher’s Daughter, Correspondent Ian Somerhalder listens in on both sides of the evangelical community’s debate over climate change.

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Sigourney Weaver

Correspondent

Why I'm involved

There is so much misinformation about what is creating the fires, the droughts, the extreme storms. I really wanted to be part of getting the correct information to people.

Sigourney Weaver

Aasif Mandvi

Correspondent

Why I'm involved

Caring about animals and their survival ensures our survival, if we want to not go extinct ourselves.

Aasif Mandvi

Jack Black

Correspondent

Why I'm involved

I spoke to scientists, I spoke to politicians, I spoke to children, and I spoke to a psychiatrist. I’ve really run the gamut of all things climate change on this incredible personal journey of mine.

Jack Black