Last updated: April 4, 2023
Studio Silverback | Earthshot Prize
The Earthshot Prize
Repairing Our Planet
We were honored to collaborate with Studio Silverback on an extensive five-part landmark series focused on global solutions, which aired on BBC and Discovery+. This stunning and uplifting documentary series provides a sense of hope for a brighter future on our planet.
Spearheaded by Prince William, the founder of The Earthshot Prize, the series features Sir David Attenborough and other Earthshot Prize Council members, such as singer Shakira Mebarak and footballer Dani Alves. The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet shifts the focus from the challenges we face to the innovative solutions that hold the potential to create a sustainable world where both nature and humanity can flourish.
The Earthshot Prize serves as a critical call for global action, aiming to transform the prevailing pessimism surrounding environmental issues into optimism by promoting inspiring leadership and supporting the scaling of groundbreaking solutions. The Earthshot concept is straightforward:
Urgency + Optimism = Action
With only ten years to reverse the environmental crisis, we need the world’s most effective solutions and a unified goal — to protect and preserve our planet.
Sample Stills + R&D
Fragmented Rivers
Marine Toxins
CO2 Emissions
SO2 Emissions
Renewable Energies
Protected Seas
Forest Restoration
Dams of the Mekong River
Fishing Activity
SO2 Emissions
Marine Plastic
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The Earthshot Prize's formula -- Urgency + Optimism = Action -- was designed to counteract 'apocalypse fatigue', the psychological phenomenon in which constant exposure to catastrophic messaging leads to paralysis rather than mobilisation.
The Mekong River, featured in GLOBAÏA's visualisations for the series, supports the world's largest inland fishery, feeding over 60 million people, yet its flow is now regulated by more than 400 dams -- each altering sediment transport, fish migration, and downstream agriculture in ways that cascade across six nations.
Global fishing vessels now collectively travel far enough each year to make multiple round trips to the Sun, yet fish stocks in over one-third of the world's marine fisheries are being harvested at biologically unsustainable levels.
The series aired on BBC and Discovery+, marking one of the few times a member of the British Royal Family has used major broadcast platforms specifically to champion environmental innovation -- broadening the audience for solutions-oriented science communication.
The fragmented river systems visualised by GLOBAÏA for The Earthshot Prize reveal that only 37% of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres still flow freely from source to sea, and the vast majority of free-flowing rivers are now confined to remote regions of the Arctic, Amazon, and Congo basins.