After an online petition reamed the Discovery Channel for being cowardly on climate change, the network has reversed course and said it will air the seventh episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary when the series hits this coming spring. The final episode not only documents the coldest regions of our world, as do the first six, but also starkly discusses the effects a warming world will have on the plants, animals, and people who depend on cold winters either directly or indirectly. Discovery had originally said it wouldn’t show the finale because it was worried that some viewers didn’t believe in climate change. But an online petition from Change.org hit 75,000 signatures in just a few hours after the news broke, prompting the network to backpedal.

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