PBS KIDS Units ‘Climate Hunters’ Animated STEM Sequence Premiere

PBS KIDS has introduced Climate Hunters, the upcoming  animated STEM collection from Al Roker Leisure (ARE), will premiere July 7, 2025, on PBS KIDS in English and Spanish. The mission is designed to help youngsters’ studying about Earth science and meteorology via journey and comedy.

The collection facilities on Lily Hunter, voiced by Tandi Fomukong, an intrepid and observant 8-year-old climate detective who shares her investigations with household and pals, together with dad Al Hunter, voiced by Al Roker; mother Dot Hunter, voiced by Holly Robinson Peete; sister Corky, voiced by Kapri Ladd; brother Benny, voiced by Lorenzo Ross; and neighbor Ms. Joyce, voiced by Sheryl Lee Ralph.

Among the many key subjects are observing and monitoring climate patterns, investigating the climate at totally different occasions of the 12 months and in other places world wide, and the connection between climate, people, and their surroundings. Digital content material for teenagers, mother and father, and lecturers will launch in tandem with the collection to bolster the present’s messages and encourage additional engagement and studying, with the primary recreation from the collection permitting youngsters to create their very personal climate studies.

“Climate has at all times been a ardour of mine, and provoking younger minds to discover its wonders has been one of the fulfilling elements of this journey,” mentioned Roker. “With Climate Hunters, I’m thrilled to share that keenness with a brand new era, together with my granddaughter, Sky, who jogs my memory on daily basis of the significance of leaving a greater planet for our children.”

“Climate impacts all of us on daily basis, from our actions to our well being and well-being, and we’re so completely happy to be collaborating with Al Roker and his crew at Al Roker Leisure on this well timed new collection that helps educate foundational science ideas in a enjoyable means,” mentioned Sara DeWitt, Senior Vice President and Basic Supervisor, PBS KIDS. “Climate Hunters will assist equip youngsters with the constructing blocks to begin to perceive climate general, and encourage them to make use of these STEM abilities to make observations, accumulate information, and examine the climate the place they reside, too.”

Created by Roker, Climate Hunters is produced by New York-based Al Roker Leisure and Dete Meserve’s Silver Creek Falls Leisure. Meserve (Prepared Jet Go! Area Camp) acts as government producer and showrunner. The collection was developed by Carin Greenberg (Tumble Leaf, Duck & Goose) who additionally government produces. John Semper, Jr. (Jay Jay the Jet Airplane, Fraggle Rock) serves as government producer and head author. Lisa Tucker government produces for Al Roker Leisure.

Academic consultants and advisors for Climate Hunters embody Sara B. Sweetman, PhD, Affiliate Professor of Training within the Faculty of Training and Skilled Research on the College of Rhode Island (URI); and Ethan Greenberg, meteorologist, educator, former vp of the Cornell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, and graduate analysis assistant on the Nationwide Drought Mitigation Middle.

Climate Hunters is made attainable with funding from Anne Ray Basis, PBS, and the Company for Public Broadcasting. Animation is produced in collaboration with Island of Misfits in Nova Scotia, Canada with companions Phillip Stamp and Dana Landry. Video games are produced with Anna Jordan-Douglass at Makefully Studios.

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