How Is Your City Tackling the Climate Crisis? | Marvin Rees | TED
AdultsHumanLifeWorld..."If we can unlock the full potential of our cities, we can minimize the price the planet pays for hosting us in our growing numbers," says Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, UK, who understands deeply how cities can help (or hurt) the environment.
Geoengineering
YouthScienceSpaceEnvironmentWhat is geoengineering, is it really an option and what if it goes wrong?
Baby Pangolin And Her Best Friend
YouthAnimalsEnvironmentNature...Meet the man who takes a baby pangolin for walks every day.
Water Fight!
YouthScienceWorldEnvironment...So, what happens when there's not enough water? Well...not good things.
Florida Everglades
KidsNatureWorldEnvironment...A trip through the Florida everglades to find out about mangroves and their importance to this coastal ecosystem.
How Fireflies Inspired Energy-Efficient Lights
YouthDesignScienceEnvironment...Electricity accounts for around 5% of greenhouse gas emissions. So how can we make it more efficient? Belgian physicist Jean-Pol Vigneron and his team found the answer could lie within a firefly's abdomen.
The Department of Redundancy Department
AdultsEducationEnvironmentScience...Who needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.
Earth Day 1970-2022
YouthEducationEnvironmentWorld...The first Earth Day was in 1970. What’s changed since?
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.
Miracle Plant That Took 200 Years To Grow
YouthNatureScienceEnvironmentDavid Attenborough delves into the story of an ancient "miracle plant" at Kew Gardens and explains how the workers at the gardens ensure no plant need ever go extinct.
Sea Women Of Melanesia
YouthWomenWorldEnvironment...The Sea Women of Melanesia train local women to monitor and assess the impacts of widespread coral bleaching on some of the world's most endangered reefs.
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
AdultsEducationEnvironmentScience...Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
Climate-Resilient Buildings
YouthScienceEnvironmentArchitectureThis UNEP publication demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be constructed to increase their resilience to climate change.
Mineral Extraction: Crash Course Geography #44
AdultsConstructionHumanScience...Today we're going to take a look at mineral extraction -- or the removal of rocks and minerals from the Earths' crust -- and examine how this human activity impacts all aspects of Geography.