These Countries Are Cheating
AdultsEducationGlobal WarmingScience...By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.
We WILL Fix Climate Change!
AdultsFutureScienceWorld...Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that will lead to the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization.
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.
Will Your Country Be The First To Sink?
AdultsConstructionIndustryLife...Sea levels are rising, but what does that mean for where you live? What does that mean for the world?
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.
Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
AdultsGlobal WarmingSocietyWorldModern life would be impossible without plastic - but we have long since lost control over our invention.
97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
AdultsEcologyGlobal WarmingHumanDo 97% of climate scientists really agree that humans are the main cause of climate change? Yep! Here's what the 97 percent statistic *really* means.
What Could Survive An Atomic Bomb?
AdultsGlobal WarmingLifeWorldModern weapons are vastly more powerful than the relatively small bomb, so fewer cockroaches would survive today's nukes.
British Diver Exposes Sea Of Plastic Rubbish Off Bali Coast
AdultsGlobal WarmingNatureThe ocean currents brought us in a lovely gift of a slick of jellyfish, plankton, leaves, branches, fronds, sticks, etc.... Oh, and some plastic.
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.
The Nuclear Waste Problem
AdultsGlobal WarmingScienceTechnologyNuclear energy is one of the cleanest, most efficient, and most available sources of power on earth.
What is the tragedy of the commons? - Nicholas Amendolare
AdultsEcologyGlobal WarmingSocietyIs it possible that overfishing, super germs, and global warming are all caused by the same thing? In 1968, a man named Garrett Hardin sat down to write an essay about overpopulation. Within it, he discovered a pattern of human behavior that explains some of history's biggest problems. Nicholas Amendolare describes the tragedy of the commons.
This Engineer's Crazy Plan to Clean Air with Smog-Sucking Bikes
AdultsGlobal WarmingScienceTechnologyThese bicycles are designed to filter smog out of the air as you ride. This could be a game changer for smoggy cities like Beijing.
An Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs, Here's a New Theory About What Did
AdultsAnimalsGlobal WarmingHistory...A new scientific model has discovered what actually happened to the earth after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
The science of smog - Kim Preshoff
AdultsCitiesGlobal WarmingNature...On July 26, 1943, Los Angeles was blanketed by a thick gas that stung people's eyes and blocked out the Sun. Panicked residents believed their city had been attacked using chemical warfare. But the cloud wasn't an act of war. It was smog. So what is this thick gray haze actually made of? And why does it affect some cities and not others? Kim Preshoff details the science behind smog.