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Science | December 2025

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Jennifer Wieland
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Experience the beauty and resilience of Nature with programs like NOVA and Nature. Discover how polar bears, coastal wolves, lynx and more survive in the North Boreal Forests and explore the actual land that makes the lore of Santa's home in the North Pole. Then, NOVA explores the discovery of human footprints from the ice age and what it means for ancient human life living among giant sloths and woolly mammoths and wonder at the bizarre discoveries found at the poles and what it could mean for our planet. 

Nature
Canada: Surviving the Wild
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 7pm 

Journey from Canada's high arctic to boreal forest and discover how polar bears, coastal wolves, lynx and more survive in the North. Timing and seizing opportunity can mean the difference between life and death in this wild and rugged outpost.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 12/10/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 12/12/2025 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 12/14/2025 @ 1:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 12/28/2025 @ 6:49 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 12/29/2025 @ 6:55 AM

NOVA
Ice Age Footprints
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 8pm

Thousands of prehistoric footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park capture moments when Ice Age humans crossed paths with enormous ground sloths and mammoths. What can this new evidence reveal about the peopling of the Americas?
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 12/10/2025 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 12/16/2025 @ 6:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 12/17/2025 @ 7:00 AM

Nature
Santa’s Wild Home
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 7pm 

Get an intimate look into life in Lapland, fabled land of Santa Claus and actual home of tenacious wildlife such as reindeer, wolverines, Brown bears and more.

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 12/17/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 12/18/2025 @ 12:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 12/21/2025 @ 1:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 12/21/2025 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 12/21/2025 @ 11:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 12/22/2025 @ 7:00 AM

NOVA
Polar Extremes
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 8pm 

Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places--beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic--uncover the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 12/17/2025 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 12/18/2025 @ 12:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 12/19/2025 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 12/23/2025 @ 6:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 12/23/2025 @ 11:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 12/24/2025 @ 7:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 12/28/2025 @ 3:00 AM