Season 6 · Episode 21 — Engineering Earth
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at unprecedented levels, scientists work to develop a backup plan to use technology to "geoengineer" the Earth's atmosphere and reduce the effects of climate change.
Season 6 episodes
E1Emmy-nominated actor Michael Kenneth Williams embarks on a personal journey to expose the root of the American mass incarceration crisis: t…
E2A look at the aftermath of President Trump's announcement to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and a report from China on advances in faci…
E3An inside look at how the Libyan revolution is failing and a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0.
E4Gianna Toboni sees firsthand how some teachers are taking up arms to be the “good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun” and explo…
E5Gianna Toboni travels to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border to investigate what the future holds for the world's most persecuted minority; corre…
E6Isobel Yeung travels to Iraq to see how Iran is exerting its growing influence over the war-torn country ahead of parliamentary elections.…
E7Ben Ferguson speaks with Russian voters and politicians to understand how democracy works in their country. Gianna Tobini examines how Pres…
E8Krishna Andavolu delves into the cutting-edge world of 3D-printing, meeting the scientists and entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of manu…
E9Gianna Toboni goes to Michigan to see school choice in action and understand what the future of public education might look like. Ben Ander…
E10Investigating if a more democratized medicinal future is possible in America; citizens of Puerto Rico struggle to rebuild in the wake of Hu…
E11Krishna Andavolu embeds with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to explore what it’s like to be an American kid growing up in t…
E12The state of America’s infrastructure; and India’s tech talents, who once emigrated to the U.S. for job opportunities but are now putting t…
E13In Iraqi Kurdistan, Vice's Ben Anderson met those involved in the fight from the frontline to the Kurd's former guerrilla president to ask…
E14Isobel Yeung examines a surge in West Virginia child welfare cases in light of the country's opioid epidemic. Krishna Andavolu travels acro…
E15Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of those who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth a…
E16Gianna Toboni reports on capital punishment in the U.S. and follows one death-row inmate on his path to the execution chamber; Isobel Yeung…
E17Michael Moynihan examines President Trump's claim that trade wars are easy to win, and what effect his policies could have on the global ec…
E18Charlet Duboc visits remote towns in Colombia where coca farming is a way of life to examine the struggle to make the nation cocaine-free.…
E19Gianna Toboni returns to Texas to see how the transgender community is fighting to win acceptance and protection. Vikram Gandhi travels to…
E20Gianna Toboni travels to America's Bible Belt to see how evangelicals are navigating today's volatile political environment. Ben Anderson r…
E21As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at unprecedented levels, scientists work to develop a backup plan to use technology to "geoeng…
E22Thomas Morton reports on advances in neurotechnology that could open up new avenues of human experience. Ben Anderson returns to Rio de Jan…
E23One year after the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement has impacted everything from Supreme Court nominees…
E24Dexter Thomas visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo to explore the sport of catch fétiche and the emergence of women as its new champ…
E25Gianna Toboni travels to Mexico to investigate the roots of a spiraling murder rate and meets the people who refuse to be silenced. Michael…
E26Krishna Andavolu reports from Central America and the southern U.S. border on the effects of Trump administration policies on thousands of…
E27Ben Anderson returns to Yemen to witness the devastating effects of four years of war and indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Anderson inv…
E28Gianna Toboni reports on domestic violence in the U.S. and meets women working to fix the shortcomings of a legal system that often fails t…
E29Exploring the U.S.'s booming doomsday industry; the cultural bias towards lighter skin in India.
E30Revisiting the Korean peninsula in the wake of the new detente; the state of California's future in the wake of increasingly deadly fires.