What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
AdultsEducationEnvironment...The Map of Evolution and other sciency posters, researched and designed with love, are now available on the kurzgesagt shop.
How Wildfires Generate "Never-Ending" Storms
AdultsEcologyEnvironment...Under the right conditions, wildfires can form clouds and generate firestorms, which last far longer than normal thunderstorms.
How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
AdultsEducationEnvironment...Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
AdultsEducationEnvironment...The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.
The Search for History’s Lost Slave Ships | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
AdultsEnvironmentHistory...On the bottom of the world’s oceans lie historic treasures—the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved people from Africa to the Americas. Only a handful have been identified so far, but National Geographic explorer and Storytelling Fellow Tara Roberts is documenting the efforts of Black scuba divers and archaeologists to find more, hoping to finally bring their stories to light.
Slow Down With Snow Monkeys
AdultsAnimalsEnvironment...Take 3 minutes and slow down with snow monkeys, with this extract from Mindful Escapes.
A brief history of plastic
AdultsEnvironmentHistory...Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.
What makes volcanoes erupt? - Steven Anderson
AdultsEnvironmentNature...Dig into the science of how new volcanoes form, and what causes their unpredictable eruptions.
This Atom Can Predict The Future
AdultsEnvironmentLife...Many of the bewildering correlations in our world - like that between Beryllium-7 and the Asian monsoon - are a result of huge and unseen forces that tie them together.
Introducing Earth School
AdultsEducationEnvironment...Announcing the launch of Earth School, a 30 day interactive adventure for students around the world to celebrate, explore, and connect with nature.
MinuteEarth Explains: Water
AdultsEnvironmentNature...In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at one of Earth’s most critical - and unique - features.
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
AdultsEnvironmentGenetics...Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.
Volcanoes 101 | National Geographic
AdultsEnvironmentNature...About 1,500 active volcanoes can be found around the world. Learn about the major types of volcanoes, the geological process behind eruptions, and where the most destructive volcanic eruption ever witnessed occurred.
Employee Missing for 10 Years Found Inside Supermarket
AdultsEnvironmentHuman...Would you be okay with grocery shopping at a store with a corpse behind the walls for 10 years? In today's video we are looking at how an employee went missing in a supermarket for 10 years before the body was discovered.
Dear Smokers
AdultsEducationEnvironment...Let's talk about cigarette butts and why they are a major problem.
What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
AdultsEcologyEnvironment...To support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free.
Shark Tagged From Submarine For First Time In History | National Geographic
AdultsAnimalsEnvironment...For the past year, a research team has developed a new strategy to study the near threatened bluntnose sixgill shark in deep waters.
What's The Dirtiest Room In Your House?
AdultsEnvironmentHuman...We're talking about germs, okay? How gross are we talking?
Primitive Technology: Crossdraft kiln
AdultsConstructionEnvironment...Primitive Technology: Crossdraft kiln - Building a crossdraft kiln from scratch.
The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
AdultsEnvironmentNature...The technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle, so we need to improve it and use it less.