Explore how future technologies will shape our world by the year 2050.

Narrated by Academy Award winner, Dame Helen Mirren, this powerful and eye-opening documentary spotlights critical efforts that may be among the last, and best chances, to preserve one million species on the brink of disappearing forever.

"Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. His book Last Child in the Woods created a national conversation about the disconnection between children and nature, and his message has galvanized an international movement. Now, three years after its initial publication, we have reached a tipping point, with Leave No Child Inside initiatives adopted in at least 30 regions...

Everywhere, citizens are fighting for the right to air that is safe to breathe. But lacking tangible evidence, their calls for regulation are easily dismissed. Together with scientists, a team of journalists sets out to search for evidence of air pollution. In Poland, 75% of electricity is produced from coal. Rybnik, Poland, is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. Here, even before Covid, children wore masks to play outside and were advised...

THEY SAY IT CAN'T BE DONE follows 4 innovators pursuing breakthroughs to solve climate change, ocean pollution, factory farming, and exploding healthcare costs. Each faces the same roadblock - an outdated regulatory system impeding success.

In this episode, we follow the uranium path from Niger to Europe to reveal the extent of the radioactive pollution created. In the Niger desert, home to some of the largest uranium reserves in the world, lies the Areva mine. Every year, Niger produces over 2,500 tonnes of yellow cake, a uranium concentrate, creating tonnes of toxic waste. Close to the mine is the village of Arlit, where radioactivity levels exceed those of the Chernobyl Prohibited...

Over the last 50 years, our use of phosphate based fertilizers has quadrupled. These are essential to modern agriculture, used especially for growing potatoes. Most fertilizers come from Morocco, where the pollution from phosphate mines is poisoning local drinking supplies, causing birth defects in animals and health problems in children. But also present in most phosphate-based fertilizer is cadmium, a toxic heavy metal linked to kidney and bone...

Some of the biggest breakthroughs as we approach 2050, are happening in medicine.

Cats might be cute, but they are also an invasive species. RUNNING WILD: THE CATS OF CORNWALL reveals the staggering impact of outdoor cats on the environment through the work of ecologists and cat rescuers in a small, depressed town.

Chuck Pell discovers how drone technology is impacting thousands of lives around the world.