Agrology: Helping Farmers Grow More Sustainably
Youth EnvironmentAdam and Tyler co-founded Agrology to help farmers adapt to changing climates.
Erika Bergman: Finding Aliens Underwater
Kids EnvironmentErika combines her two great passions: engineering and underwater exploration.
Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time
Adults EnvironmentChange Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time
The Grandmas Leading Africa’s Solar Revolution
Youth EnvironmentA group of grandmothers decided to change that, bringing light to their community by becoming the village’s first solar engineers.
Baby Pangolin And Her Best Friend
Youth EnvironmentMeet the man who takes a baby pangolin for walks every day.
The Department of Redundancy Department
Adults EnvironmentWho needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Adults EnvironmentWater can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
Is Soil Alive?
Adults EnvironmentSoil doesn't seem like it's "alive", yet it functions like a living thing in lots of key ways.
Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
Adults EnvironmentThis video was supported by Gates Notes, the personal blog of Bill Gates, where he writes about global health, climate change, and more.
What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
Adults EnvironmentThe 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
Adults EnvironmentUnder 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
Adults EnvironmentNuclear 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
Adults EnvironmentThe 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
Adults EnvironmentOn 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
Adults EnvironmentTake 3 minutes and slow down with snow monkeys, with this extract from Mindful Escapes.
A brief history of plastic
Adults EnvironmentTrace 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
Adults EnvironmentDig into the science of how new volcanoes form, and what causes their unpredictable eruptions.
This Atom Can Predict The Future
Adults EnvironmentMany 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
Adults EnvironmentAnnouncing the launch of Earth School, a 30 day interactive adventure for students around the world to celebrate, explore, and connect with nature.