Watch A Free-Diver Rescue This Entangled Whale Shark
AdultsAnimalsGlobal WarmingNature...A Hawaiian family spotted this whale shark while free-diving off the coast of Lanai. First, they were excited about the rare sighting of the 20-foot-long endangered shark.
What is the coldest thing in the world?
AdultsEnvironmentScienceWorldThe coldest materials in the world aren't in Antarctica or at the top of Mount Everest. They're in physics labs: clouds of gases held just fractions of a degree above absolute zero.
What Are The Most Mysterious Places On Earth?
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorldThere are places on planet earth that very few humans have explored. Let's look at some of those mysterious destinations!
Why Some Animals Follow The Moon
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentNatureOrganisms of all shapes and sizes synchronize their behaviors using biological clocks. Some keep pace with the daily rising and setting sun using circadian rhythms.
Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind
AdultsSpaceWorldEnvironmentWe live in a beautiful world, and these amazing facts will blow your mind.
Why BEAVERS Are The Smartest Thing In Fur Pants
AdultsAnimalsNatureEnvironmentBeavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don't notice them much today because there aren't many left, but before colonization, North America was home to hundreds of millions of these furry engineers.
How long will human impacts last? - David Biello
AdultsGlobal WarmingHumanNature...Imagine aliens land on Earth a million years from now. What will these curious searchers find of us? They will find what geologists, scientists, and other experts are increasingly calling the Anthropocene, or new age of mankind. David Biello explains how the impacts that humans have made have become so pervasive, profound, and permanent that some geologists believe we merit our own epoch.
How to survive if you get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere
AdultsEnvironmentLifeWorld...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.
Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
AdultsAnimalsNatureScience...During the warmer months, especially at night during the full moon, horseshoe crabs emerge from the sea to spawn. Waiting for them are teams of lab workers, who capture the horseshoe crabs by the hundreds of thousands, take them to labs, harvest their cerulean blood, then return them to the sea. Why? Elizabeth Cox illuminates the incredible properties of horseshoe crab blood.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
AdultsCreativityFoodTechnology...This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang
AdultsEconomyIndustryFashion...Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel Chang traces the life cycle of a t-shirt.
Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
AdultsAnimalsNatureWorld...When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing -- the kind that stocks our grocery shelves -- looks more like warfare. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet explain overfishing and its effects on ecosystems, food security, jobs, economies, and coastal cultures.
When is water safe to drink? - Mia Nacamulli
AdultsEcologyHealthScience...Water is refreshing, hydrating, and invaluable to your survival. But clean water remains a precious and often scarce commodity - there are nearly 800 million people who still don't have regular access to it. Why is that? And how can you tell whether the water you have access to - whether from a tap or otherwise - is drinkable? Mia Nacamulli examines water contamination and treatment.
The Man Who Has Inseminated Over 1,000 Honeybees | Amazing Humans
AdultsAnimalsGlobal WarmingNature...The bee population has dropped dramatically and Michael Waite is taking matters into his own hands with a scheme to inseminate Queen bees.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
AdultsConstructionFutureTechnology...South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.