How to survive if you get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere
AdultsEnvironmentLife...What is one supposed to do, if you find yourself in the middle of nowhere? Here are some tips and advice on how to stay alive in the most deserted places.
Who Lives At The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench?
AdultsAnimalsEnvironment...Creepy Monsters At The Bottom Of The Mariana Trench.
Going green shouldn't be this hard
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal WarmingGoing green does not need to be a sacrifice, either for us as individuals or for businesses, governments and the economy.
What Ever Happened To Saving The Rainforest?
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal Warming...The efforts to save the Amazon rainforest actually did save it. However, new threats have arisen to combat conservation efforts.
What If All The Ice Melted?
AdultsEnvironmentWorldWhat If All The Ice Melted On Earth? ft. Bill Nye
FarmBot Genesis
AdultsEnvironmentFood...FarmBot Genesis is humanity's first open-source CNC farming machine designed for at-home automated food production.
Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
AdultsEnvironmentNatureThanks to Curtin University and the University of Western Australia for sponsoring this video. Also, special thanks to Kingsley Dixon and the Orchid Specialist Group of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission.
The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall
AdultsEnvironmentNatureThe chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their fall splendor.
The threat of invasive species
AdultsEnvironmentNatureMassive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation.
Edible Cutlery
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal WarmingIndia is one of the world's largest consumers of disposable plastic cutlery, which has the makings of a huge health and environmental crisis written all over it.
How I found a mythical boiling river in the Amazon
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWhen Andres Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it.
Rain's Dirty Little Secret
AdultsEnvironmentNatureMinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment - in just a few minutes!
Future Of Practical Power
AdultsEnvironmentScience...The Wendelstein 7-X was a nightmare to build, but if it works it may light a new path to fusion energy.
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
AdultsEnvironmentNatureToday's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.
Jaguar Cub Makes Public Debut at San Diego Zoo
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentThe San Diego Zoo's jaguar cub makes its public debut on March 28. The cub was born on March 12 and has spent most of its time away from the public exhibit since birth.
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ft. Richard Dawkins
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWhen evolution favours a stable ratio of traits rather than one dominant trait.
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal Warming..."Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it.
How Does A Canyon Become Grand?
AdultsEnvironmentHistory...I was in Arizona recently for Phoenix Comic-Con, and had the amazing pleasure of seeing one of Earth's greatest natural wonders... the Grand Canyon. More than a mile deep, and several miles across, it just defies belief. But I couldn't help but think, the Colorado River down at the bottom isn't that big. How did it cut a canyon so massive? How old is the Grand Canyon?