The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
Adults EnvironmentBamboo 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
Adults EnvironmentAbout 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.
What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea
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Shark Tagged From Submarine For First Time In History | National Geographic
Adults EnvironmentFor 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?
Adults EnvironmentWe're talking about germs, okay? How gross are we talking?
The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
Adults EnvironmentThe 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.
Can We Turn Earth Into a Spaceship?
Adults EnvironmentWorld ending disasters are common place in science fiction, and usually an inventive plan is required to save the day.
These Plants Eat Salamanders | National Geographic
Adults EnvironmentPitcher plants like these are known to feast on insects like flies. However, at a bog in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario Canada, scientists have found many pitcher plants with a more ambitious diet.
What If You Were Sent Back To The Ice Ages?
Adults EnvironmentWhat would happen if you traveled to the ice ages? Would you be able to survive the earth in it's dangerous icy state?
How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another
Adults EnvironmentAs Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.
Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World
Adults EnvironmentResults from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.
How to grow your own glacier
Adults EnvironmentExplore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.
Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
Adults EnvironmentTake a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.
Earth Hour 2019
Teachers EnvironmentThis toolkit contains assets which help raise awareness of the nature all around us, tools to empower you and the people around you to take action and advocate for this year's Earth Hour and beyond!