This Spring, PBS Celebrates the Earth with Compelling Stories and Transformative Insights

ARLINGTON, VA; March 18, 2026 -  This April, PBS invites viewers to celebrate Earth Month with a curated line-up of programming. April's slate of broadcast, digital, and streaming programming features global stories and centers leading scientific voices. Feel caution and hope with OUR NEW WORLD, follow the journey of orphan elephants in NATURE: BECOMING ELEPHANT: THE ORPHANS OF RETITI, visit a national park that has housed tigers for half a century in NATURE: THE LEGENDARY TIGERS OF INDIA, follow a Peruvian community's quest for survival in NOVA "Rain Bombs," experience the magic of coexisting with wildlife in WILDING and SHARED PLANET and travel millions of miles around the world with David Attenborough in LIFE ON EARTH: ATTENBOROUGH'S GREATEST ADVENTURE. Discover new adventures with PBS KIDS, including new content from WILD KRATTS, ELINOR WONDERS WHY, and CYBERCHASE. PBS KIDS will also feature an Earth Month playlist with nature-themed episodes from WEATHER HUNTERS, DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD, MOLLY OF DENALI, and more, bringing Earth Month education and inspiration to young audiences across the country.

"Our Earth Month programming invites audiences of all ages to better understand the rapidly changing world around them," said Diana El Osta, Sr. Director, Multiplatform Programming & Development, PBS. "Across broadcast and digital platforms, we're centering innovative solutions to today's greatest challenges, highlighting communities on the front lines of climate and environmental change, and sharing stories that spark curiosity and encourage people to care for our planet."

"This Earth Month, we're excited to invite kids and families to discover new adventures and explore nature-themed episodes of their favorite PBS KIDS series," said Adriano Schmid, Vice President of PBS KIDS Content. "This year's seasonal content will highlight endangered species, different plants and animals in our playgrounds and parks, and how nature helps us all."

Alongside PBS's linear broadcast schedule, audiences can view web series and additional digital content on the Earth Month YouTube playlist by  PBS Digital Studios. Below is the full schedule of science and nature programming premiering on PBS (check local listings), PBS.org, and the PBS app - available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and VIZIO.

Programs for Earth Month are listed below in premiere order:

OUR NEW WORLD

Premieres: Wednesday, April 1, 10 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, and PBS app 

How are ecosystems being reshaped? OUR NEW WORLD highlights nature's extraordinary capacity for adaptation, following scientists and communities on the front lines of a changing planet. From shifting forests to evolving marine habitats, the series showcases the real-time transformation of our natural world.

NATURE: BECOMING ELEPHANT: THE ORPHANS OF RETETI

Premieres: Wednesday, April 8, 8PM ET on PBS, PBS.org and PBS app

Follow the journey of orphaned elephants at Reteti, the first community-owned elephant sanctuary in Africa. Raised by Samburu keepers who act as surrogate parents, these elephants, rescued from poaching or drought, are nurtured and prepared for life in the wild. Also hear the story of the local "milk mamas," who bring hundreds of gallons of goats' milk to Reteti to feed the young elephants daily.

NATURE: THE LEGENDARY TIGERS OF INDIA

Premieres: Wednesday, April 22 at 8 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org and PBS app

In the jungles of northwestern India there is a mystic fort that has stood for more than a thousand years. For centuries, rulers battled over its control and its tigers hunted. Today, Ranthambore National Park is home to the most filmed, most studied and most famous tigers on Earth. This is their story of 50 years, told by Valmik Thapar, the tiger expert who devoted his life to keeping them alive.

NOVA "RAIN BOMBS"

Premieres: Wednesday, April 22, 9 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, PBS app and YouTube

An invisible force is causing chaos around the globe. Follow scientists racing to understand the catastrophic "rain bombs" that are sinking ships and downing planes. Can they learn to predict these devastating weather events and save lives?

WILDING

Premieres: Wednesday, April 22, 10 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, and PBS app 

WILDING tells the story of a young couple who turn their back on intensive farming and hand their 3500-acre English estate back to nature - battling entrenched tradition and entrusting its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild.

SHARED PLANET

Premieres: Wednesday, April 29, 10 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org, and PBS app 

This series will reveal amazing and untold stories of people and animals flourishing together that have the power to change the world, because the future for all depends on nature.

LIFE ON EARTH: ATTENBOROUGH'S GREATEST ADVENTURE

Premieres: Wednesday, May 6, 8 PM ET on PBS, PBS.org and PBS app

The film reveals the little-known story of David Attenborough's greatest undertaking: a three-year, hair-raising odyssey around the world, traveling to 40 countries across a million miles, to film over 600 species, resulting in a new kind of blockbuster series - LIFE ON EARTH.

PBS DIGITAL STUDIOS

PBS TERRA "MEGAQUAKES COMPILATION"

Premieres: Thursday, April 2 on PBS.org, PBS App and YouTube

Terra's first-ever compilation episode, this video takes a deep dive into the science, history, and vital safety preparations of the Cascadia Megaquake.

WEATHERED "EXTREME WEATHER EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS"

Premieres: Thursday, April 9 on PBS.org, PBS App and YouTube

This episode explores the potential to save thousands of lives each year as experts try to improve the speed, accuracy and reach of emergency warnings during extreme weather events.

EONS "SUPER MOUNTAINS"

Premieres: Tuesday, April 14 on PBS.org, PBS App and YouTube

Supermountains are so ridiculously enormous that, as far as we know, they've only ever formed twice - and both of those times seem to coincide with some of the most profound evolutionary shifts in the entire history of life.

OVERVIEW "DATA CENTERS"

Premieres: Thursday, April 16 on PBS.org, PBS App and YouTube

Using thermal imaging drones to expose what AI companies refuse to disclose, a team of investigative journalists flies over America's most powerful data centers to reveal the invisible pollution, staggering energy consumption, and human costs hidden behind every ChatGPT query.

PBS KIDS

CYBERCHASE

Premieres: Friday, April 17 on PBS KIDS  

"Leave the Leaves"

To please his pet smirble, BB, Hacker transforms a park into a highly manicured space, but BB doesn't like it at all! To find out why, the kids time travel to collect and analyze data and help restore the park's biodiversity.

"Fix It Time!"

CYBERCHASE turns "repair, reuse, reduce" into an action-packed mission. The Squad tries to uncover why everyone's scooters are breaking in Botsburg and launches a place to fix them using math and engineering skills. Back home, Jackie tests her new fixing skills on a broken family heirloom.

WILD KRATTS "The Butternut Tree"

Premieres: Monday, April 20 on PBS KIDS

Martin and Chris stumble upon a rare and endangered seedling of a butternut tree. While looking for its parent tree, they only discover dead and broken ones. Finally, they find a big healthy tree and begin a Creature Power investigation into why some of the trees are dying and some aren't. Could genetic coding be the answer?

ELINOR WONDERS WHY

Premieres: Monday, April 27 on PBS KIDS

"Melting Point / Mr. Raccoon's Bad Day"

While delivering chocolates, the kids learn that warmer temperatures can melt their treats. / After Mr. Raccoon is having a bad day, the kids help him calm down using nature.

"Mother's Day / Tricks of the Jade"

When the store is out of chocolate for Mother's Day, Elinor and her dad learn how to make their own. / After accidentally breaking a jade plant, the kids learn how the plant grows.

PBS PLUS

Premieres: Wednesday, April 1 on PBS App and PBS.org (check local listings)

LIFE UNEARTHED WITH ARIEL WALDMAN

LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven docu-series that reveals Earth's ecosystems through radical shifts in scale - from microscopic wildlife to the planet's most iconic animals - and even the possibilities of life beyond Earth. Hosted by explorer Ariel Waldman, the series invites viewers to look closely and think expansively. With episodes spanning environments near and far, from the sweeping American Prairies to the alien terrains of Antarctica, the series illuminates how every ecosystem is part of something bigger.

PBS LEARNING MEDIA

As part of PBS Earth Month and drawing from the broad range of new PBS programming, PBS LearningMedia is curating more than a dozen new classroom resources into its media-rich Climate and Our Planet Collection that showcase success stories of Earth stewardship and ecosystem resilience. Featured educational content and support materials come from Shared Planet, Our New World, Women of the Earth, and more.

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