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Curated Video

Brazil's President Might Miss A Meeting On Rainforest Fires He Called

Higher Ed
President Jair Bolsonaro has faced international pressure to address the Amazon Rainforest fires.
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Curated Video

BLM Planning 11K Miles Of Fuel Breaks To Control Great Basin Wildfires

Higher Ed
The barriers are made by reducing vegetation and are intended to save forests as well as the lives of firefighters.
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Curated Video

Brazil To Temporarily Ban Fires In The Amazon Rainforest

Higher Ed
The announcement comes after 29 firms sent a letter threatening to pull investments if Brazil doesn't do something to protect the rainforest.
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Bloomberg

Manitoba’s Delisle, Saskatchewan’s Balkwill on Provincial Borrowing Part I

Higher Ed
Don Delisle, Assistant Deputy Minister, Treasury Division, Manitoba and Rodney Balkwill, Executive Director, Treasury Management Branch, Ministry of Finance, Saskatchewan, discuss provincial borrowing Shelly Hagan, Reporter, at the...
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Bloomberg

Singapore Passes Law to Punish Haze Crimes

Higher Ed
Sept. 17 -- Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin reports on Singapore passing a law that would punish those responsible for causing haze. The crimes carry a maximum fine of $1.6M. She speaks to Rishaad Salamat on On The Move. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Curated Video

Indonesia - US troops help firefighting

Higher Ed
Three specially adapted US Hercules planes arrived in Jakarta on Saturday (18/10) to help firefighting efforts in Indonesia where about 40 forest blazes were reported late on Friday (17/10). US Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy and...
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Curated Video

UN paints bleak picture of earth's air quality

Higher Ed
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday that we're on track to reach record carbon dioxide levels in 2016, despite an historic climate change deal reached by World Leaders last year in Paris, which aims to limit CO2...
Instructional Video1:41
Curated Video

Trump offers Putin help fighting Russian wildfires

Higher Ed
Presidient Donald Trump says he offered US help to Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Russia's forest fires that have engulfed thousands of square miles of territory in Siberia and the Russian Far East - an area estimated to be...
Instructional Video1:41
Curated Video

Trump offers Putin help fighting Russian wildfires

Higher Ed
Presidient Donald Trump says he offered U.S. help to Russian President Vladimir Putin in fighting Russia's forest fires that have engulfed thousands of square miles of territory in Siberia and the Russian Far East - an area estimated to...
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Curated Video

The Story Of Smokey The Bear

Higher Ed
Newsy's Casey Mendoza gives us a history lesson on the familiar forest figure.
Instructional Video4:20
TED-Ed

Why Wildfires Are Necessary

1st - 6th
Are wildfires necessary for some forests? Get the answer to this burning question with a short video that examines the role of fire in forest growth and health.
Instructional Video
Science for Kids

Science Kids: Earth Videos: Bushfires in Australia

9th - 10th
Video of wildfires raging in Australia's forests and the firefighters struggling to contain them. (Length: 1 min. 49 sec.)
Instructional Video
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: The Goat Brigade

9th - 10th
A discussion and video that looks at Brush Goats 4 Hire, a business in California that hires out a herd of elite goats to clear out dry brush an vegetation that might fuel a wildfire. It's a much cheaper solution than hiring people and...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Wildfires

9th - 10th
Janice Coen at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is studying how weather and fire interact in order to develop a wildfire prediction system to forecast fire behavior. [6:12]
Instructional Video
PBS

Arizona Pbs: Wildland Fire Prevention

9th - 10th
This video focuses on a campaign to prevent wildfires in Arizona. Helen Graham, the deputy fire staff officer for the Tonto National Forest, will discuss the "One Less Spark, One Less Fire" wildfire prevention campaign. They discuss...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Managing Forests to Manage Wildfires

9th - 10th
Scientists discuss how to control the fires that have shaped and scarred the Southwest.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Fires and Invasive Grass Threaten American West

9th - 10th
Cheatgrass, an invasive weed, chokes out native sagebrush - and sets the stage for massive blazes. [33 mins. 54 secs.]