What Mud From Glacial Lakes Can Tell Us About Our History
AdultsHistoryNatureWorldScienceEnvironment... See what challenges face a team of scientists gathering core sediment samples from a glacial lake in the Himalayas.
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
AdultsEnvironmentGeneticsNature 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
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorldScienceGeology... 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.
What Mud From Glacial Lakes Can Tell Us About Our History | National Geographic
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceEnvironment... See what challenges face a team of scientists gathering core sediment samples from a glacial lake in the Himalayas.
How To Turn Poop Into Power
AdultsAnimalsHumanScienceEnvironmentEnergy... We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.
How Wildlife Is Bouncing Back In This African Park
AdultsAnimalsHistoryNatureEnvironmentWildlife... When Tizola Moyo started as a ranger in 1993, Majete Wildlife Reserve was devoid of any wildlife. Now, with the help of the park’s rangers and community collaboration, it's flourishing.
How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?
AdultsNatureScienceWorldEnvironment... Trees can take an astounding amount of carbon out of the air, which is good, because we need to do that times a trillion.
See Antarctica Like Never Before | National Geographic
AdultsFilmNatureWorldTravelEnvironment... Here at the bottom of the world, a place all but free of human settlement, humanity is scrambling one of the ocean’s richest wildernesses.
Peatlands Critical In Climate Change Fight | National Geographic
AdultsHistoryHumanLifeEnvironment... Peatlands lock in more carbon than forests—and a new mapping effort suggests that the Democratic Republic of Congo’s might be the world’s largest.
Shark Tagged From Submarine For First Time In History | National Geographic
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentHistoryScience... For the past year, a research team has developed a new strategy to study the near threatened bluntnose sixgill shark in deep waters.
What a Sea Snail Die-off Means for Californians—and the Climate | National Geographic
AdultsAnimalsFilmNatureScienceEnvironment... The red abalone fishery is closed down until 2021 in hopes that the snail population would rebound. Many coastal communities are suffering from the closure.