Summer 2023 is officially the hottest summer on record, while freak storms and rising sea levels are all around us. But we often only think of these impacts in terms of how they affect humans, such as how many billions of dollars in damages hurricanes or wildfires cause. A new documentary takes a different approach, with a specific eye toward how animals are reacting to climate change.
"Evolution Earth," which premiered on PBS on September 6, is narrated by evolutionary biologist Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton and features titles like "Islands," "Heat," "Ice" and "Grasslands." One could be forgiven for thinking "Evolution Earth" is a standard nature documentary. Yet every animal captured in the series, from the polar bears to the white hares, is in one way or another responding to humanity's ongoing burning of fossil fuels, which is dangerously heating up the globe and pushing our planet to its very limits.
