explore: Specials

The American Southwest is a complex region where cultures transcend political borders. Join Charlie and the explore Team as they meet people pursuing a life in the United States while struggling to maintain their cultural heritage and longstanding traditions.

 Check out explore.org's live polar bear cameras! In partnership with Polar Bears International and Frontiers North, explore's live HD polar bear cameras in Churchill, Canada are a window into the lives of animals that are increasingly threatened by climate change. Watch as the bears wait for the ice to form on the Hudson Bay, and spot females with cubs and sparring male bears. 

Take a journey to Rwanda with Charlie and the explore.org Team to discover how a nation torn apart by the nightmare of genocide can reconcile its past to live together in the present.

Dog Bless You, a non-profit community created by explore.org founder Charlie Annenberg Weingarten to champion the role dogs play in the lives of humans, is celebrating dogs and soldiers in America and bringing service dogs to war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder through a challenge grant centered around the Dog Bless You Facebook page.Click here to join Dog Bless You and support American war vets.

Follow Charlie and the explore.org Team on a journey to seek out new adventure sports and talk to the heroes that rescue thrill seekers when the action goes awry. On their way, they explore what makes humans push the boundaries of physics in the never-ending pursuit of adrenaline.Read more about this explore project from a YouthNoise PlayCity blogger.Learn more at explore.org

Join Charlie and the explore.org Team on their journey to Darfur with the British NGO, Merlin. Strangers to this place, they are welcomed by the Darfuri people who illuminate the ability of the human spirit to persevere despite unimaginable adversity.Click for airtimes and more information.Learn more at explore.org

In part two of the eerie Halloween special, "explore: Witchcraft and Space," join filmmaker and philanthropist Charles Annenberg Weingarten and the explore Team on their visit to Charlie's hometown, Roswell, New Mexico, the site of what some call the largest government cover-up of the past century: the Roswell UFO crash of 1947. Then, meet the children of Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, West Virginia, where the very coal mining that supports the community also threatens the local students. And, get a glimpse of where astronomers go to peer into the heavens, at the Keck Observatory atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.Click here for part one of "explore: Witchcraft and Space", where Charlie goes to Salem, Massachusetts, to uncover the bizarre origins, innocent victims and final resolution of the infamous Salem Witch Hunt.Learn more at www.explore.org.

Join Charlie and the explore.org Team as they visit with combat vets in Sun Valley Idaho. Witness the connection between nature and healing as these heroes, young and old, participate in the Sun Valley Adaptive Sports fly fishing workshop to cope with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical injuries from war.Learn more at explore.org

In this episode of explore Charlie and his team are on a fact-finding mission to learn about the obstacles and opportunities faced by those with disabilities. Meet the former mayor of Vancouver, Sam Sullivan, who survived a near fatal ski accident at the age of 19 leaving him almost completely paralyzed from the shoulders down. Overcoming his physical impairments, Sullivan has dedicated his life to working with the disabled and people struggling with addiction. Then, in Jordan, deaf children have a place of their own to learn and grow at the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf thanks to Brother Andrew de Carpentier and his mentoring program.Learn more at explore.orgWatch more explore specials on Link.

Tour the world with Charlie and the explore.org Team on their search to uncover the unique perspectives of today's youth. From schoolchildren in rural Anwu, China, to daring child filmmakers in Hebron, West Bank; and from street poets in Los Angeles, California, to raspy throat singers in the Arctic, get an inside look at the ideas and talents expressed by the young leaders of tomorrow.Watch more explore Special Episodes!Learn more at explore.org.