PBS Salutes Earth Day 2005

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For Immediate Release

PBS Salutes Earth Day 2005

Alan Alda, Matt Damon and Edward Norton to Host

Programs That Inform, Entertain and Add Relevance to Everyday Life

ALEXANDRIA, VERMONT, Apr. 5 -/E-Wire/-- Throughout the month of April, in celebration of the international observance of Earth Day (April 22), PBS presents series and specials that bring special awareness to sustaining our global environment. Covering the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream, from the atmosphere to rain forests, local villages and metropolitan centers, science researchers share up-to-the-minute findings from the field and explain what it means to us here at home. Program line-up:

NATURE "Deep Jungle" Sundays, April 17, 24 and May 1, 8 to 9 pm ET on PBS

Exploring a world that Tarzan never could have imagined, this three-hour miniseries penetrates the mysteries of the world's rainforests illuminating the role they play in planetary ecology.

ALAN ALDA IN SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS "Hot Planet â Cold Comfort" Wednesday, April 20, 8:30 to 9 pm ET on PBS

Hosted by Alan Alda, this encore presentation examines how warming of Arctic glaciers could potentially threaten the great Atlantic Conveyor and the Gulf Stream.

JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH "State of the Planet" â Monday, April 11, 10 to 11 pm ET on PBS "Future Conditional" â Monday, April 18, 10 to 11 pm ET on PBS

Hosted by Matt Damon, the two-part series offers the first global environmental "report card" and explores the relationship between environmental change and the future health of our planet.

NOVA scienceNOW April 19, 8 to 9 pm ET on PBS

Hosted by Robert Krulwich, this special introduces viewers to a species of frog that has solved the problem of cryogenics: freezing solid in the winter, then thawing back to life in the spring.

NOW Friday, April 22, 9 to 9:30 pm ET on PBS (Earth Day) With industrial pollution often hitting poor and working-class families the hardest, NOW â hosted by David Brancaccio â takes an inside look at the politics of pollution in America.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S STRANGE DAYS ON PLANET EARTH Wednesdays, April 20 and 27, 9 to 11 pm ET on PBS

Hosted by Edward Norton, the series takes a hard look at the cause and effect relationship between what we as humans do to the Earth, and what that in turn does to our environment and ecosystems.

Tim Fisher, Fisher Company, 845/526-0182; [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Kim Tavares, PBS, 703/739-5011; [REDACTED-EMAIL]

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