Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Trailer
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A look at the rising waters on Virginia's Eastern Shore and challenges for its residents.
AGAINST THE CURRENT provides a powerful look at how residents of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, like many coastal towns, are subject to rising sea waters and the challenges it has on their lives and livelihood. Through resilience and perseverance, they learn to co-exist and celebrate their rural home. How can this community shed light on conversations happening around these issues of climate change?
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Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 8 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
AGAINST THE CURRENT provides a powerful look at how residents of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, like many coastal towns, are subject to rising sea waters and the challenges it has on their lives and livelihood. Through resilience and perseverance, they learn to co-exist and celebrate their rural home. How can this community shed light on conversations happening around these issues of climate change?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(chiming music) - The Eastern shore is nestled right in a narrow sliver of land between the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay.
- Virginia in the US is experiencing the second highest rates of sea level rise.
- It used to be just hurricanes, but now, it's seemed like it's one, a heavy storm, like wind, and... - Winter business has been a struggle, I'll be honest with you, but I wouldn't change nothing if I had to do it all over again.
- We're getting more and more flood dates, and those high tides are getting higher, and the low tides aren't going as low.
- We are one storm away from a disaster.
- If we lose a place like Nation Shore, I think, we lose a little piece of America that we can never get back.
TINA MCDUFFIE: WHRO Public Media and World present Against the Current, Life on the Eastern Shore, a Local, USA special.
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Barrier Islands
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Clip: S8 Ep8 | 50s | The barrier islands of Virginia's Eastern Shore are left vulnerable to rising sea levels. (50s)
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Organic Farming
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Clip: S8 Ep8 | 58s | Thelonius Cook shares his worries over organic farming and climate change on the Eastern Shore. (58s)
Against the Current: Life on the Eastern Shore | Oysters
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Clip: S8 Ep8 | 59s | Aquafarmer Kellen Singleton loves oysters. But warming waters are challenging their future. (59s)
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