Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
AdultsEnvironmentHumanLife...This video was supported by Gates Notes, the personal blog of Bill Gates, where he writes about global health, climate change, and more.
How do wind turbines work?
AdultsNatureScienceTechnology...Explore how wind turbines convert wind into electricity, and the challenges of powering the world entirely with wind energy.
What’s the best fuel for your car?
AdultsAutomotiveNatureScience...Dig into which fuel— gasoline, electric, biofuels, or electrofuels— is both affordable for consumers and sustainable for the planet.
How much land does it take to power the world?
AdultsIndustryTechnologyWorld...Explore the sustainability of fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy and how much space each of these power sources use.
How much electricity does it take to power the world?
AdultsEducationTechnologyWorld...Discover how much electricity humanity uses, and how clean energy sources could help revolutionize our energy supply in the future.
What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
AdultsEducationEnvironmentWorld...The 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
AdultsEcologyEnvironmentNature...Under 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
AdultsEducationEnvironmentHistory...Nuclear 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
AdultsEducationEnvironmentNature...The 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.
Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant - Alex Gendler
AdultsConstructionDesignIndustry...Explore the creation of China’s Three Gorges Dam, and find out how the hydroelectric plant generates its power.
The Search for History’s Lost Slave Ships | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
AdultsEnvironmentHistoryHuman...On 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.
Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.
AdultsNatureScienceWorld...This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support the innovations that will lead the world to net-zero carbon emissions.
Slow Down With Snow Monkeys
AdultsAnimalsEnvironmentNatureTake 3 minutes and slow down with snow monkeys, with this extract from Mindful Escapes.
A brief history of plastic
AdultsEnvironmentHistoryHuman...Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.