Keeping An Eye On Ocean Garbage...From Space!
YouthScienceEnvironmentTechnologyESA is exploring how satellites can help detect and reduce plastic pollution in the ocean.
Why Is Biodiversity Important?
YouthScienceEnvironmentNatureDavid Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans.
Why do your jeans wear out so quickly?
AdultsConstructionDesignLife...Trace the life cycle of a pair of denim jeans, and discover the labor and environmental costs of this fashion staple.
Recycling Fashion
YouthHistoryTechnologyFashion...Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world. But a small town in Italy called Prato has built its fortune on transforming old scraps into new clothes, particularly knitwear and wool.
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.