Killers: J pod on the brink

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Killers: J pod on the brink episodes

April 22, 2024 Killers presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?
The climate is changing. So are we. On What On Earth, you’ll explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. In 1970, 20 million people showed up to fight for the environment on the first Earth Day. More than five decades later, is it time for this much tamer global event to return to its radical roots?

OG organizer Denis Hayes recounts how – amidst other counterculture movements at the time – his team persuaded roughly one in ten Americans to take to the streets. As he approaches 80, Denis offers his singular piece of advice to the next generation of climate leaders. Then, environmental warriors Maria Blancas and Axcelle Campana share ideas on what a reinspired Earth Day could look like – including making it a public holiday.

More episodes of What On Earth are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/IfsZdod9

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30 min
August 04, 2019 Episode 5: Tough Love
It’s 1964, and J pod ancestor Moby Doll is harpooned and put on display at Vancouver’s waterfront. The crowds are delighted, until he dies. It’s the beginning of a fraught love affair with orcas that is mirrored today in aquariums and whale watching. Is our attraction to J pod a killer, or can our love save this family?
37 min
August 04, 2019 Episode 4: “The Water is the Starting Point”
J pod is an urban orca family, but have we made the very water they swim in uninhabitable? And why are other orca populations thriving along the same tainted coast line? From pollution to the blob, we ask, are major ocean changes a killer?
31 min
July 25, 2019 Episode 3: Peanut Head
A family matriarch, J35’s mother, is showing sure signs of peanut head. The experts agree: the Southern Residents are not getting enough fish to eat. But is it as simple as a decline in Chinook salmon? We head out on the latest research expeditions to investigate: is starvation a killer?
30 min
July 21, 2019 Episode 2: “Sea of Noises”
J pod is a poster child in a nation-wrenching debate over a pipeline expansion, and it all comes down to the impact of increased vessel traffic. We take a journey along the noisy west coast waterfront to unravel the mysteries of orca communication, and ask, is noise a killer?
36 min
July 17, 2019 Episode 1: “Tapping Out”
Hope turns to dismay as a new J pod calf dies before researchers arrive. When mother J35 carries its corpse for 17 days and 1000 miles, the world wakes up to the plight of the Southern Residents. Some call it grief; others, a message, and the drama of that hot summer becomes a symbol of the struggle to save J pod.
36 min
June 25, 2019 Killers: J pod on the brink trailer
A killer whale mother captivates the world as she carries her dead calf for 17 days. Some call it grief; many say it is a wake-up call for the plight of her endangered pod, and the health of our oceans. Killers: J pod on the brink asks what’s responsible for the struggles of the Southern Resident Killer Whales? Can we save this iconic family? What happens if we don’t?
3 min

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Host Gloria Macarenko delves into our fraught love affair with the iconic and endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales who have become political poster children for climate change. What’s killing…