by Brit Liggett,

After recent rumors that the Discovery Channel was going to cut the last episode of their Frozen Planet series – the one that deals exclusively with climate change – people were outraged and an online petition was organized. Almost 84,000 curious individuals slapped their names on the Change.org petition asking Discovery to air the episode, and the people have won. Yesterday, Discovery announced that they will in fact be airing the series in full starting on Sunday, March 18 and it will be capped off by episode number seven, “Frozen Planet: On Thin Ice,” which warns the human race of the dangers of our melting ice caps.

In a news release yesterday the Discovery Channel announced the start date for airing the series and made sure to note that the seventh episode will be shown to cap off the run. “,” the release noted. The release ended with a note about the episode in question; “.” The show was shot by the same team that made the epic series “Planet Earth” and will be narrated by Alec Baldwin.

In the call for people to sign the petition, Claudia Abbott-Barish, the author, quoted her friend David Baillie of WildCat Films who worked as a camera man on Frozen Planet. “” He added that he was working alongside scientists, “.”

The episode won’t be censored now and although Discovery directly denies that the petition to show the episode had any impact on their decision, the news reports before they announced the air date were pretty clear. Discovery had been attempting to keep this potentially eye-opening episode from the eyes of United States citizens but now we’ll all get to see what is likely to be an enlightening — but depressing — one hour special.

(Source: www.inhabitat.com )