US Department of Agriculture
Value Of Urban Forests
Software developed by the USDA Forest Service and partners is helping to determine the value of trees in urban areas.
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Tropical Birds Around the World
This video provides an introduction to tropical birds, highlighting their vibrant colors, unique behaviors, and the importance of their conservation. It explores various species of tropical birds from different regions such as the...
Curated Video
Forests
This brief video explores the three main types of forest found on our planet: Tropical, Temperate, and Boreal.
Curated Video
The Devastating Effects of Deforestation and Peat Bog Destruction on Habitats
The video is a lecture presentation discussing the topic of destruction of habitats, specifically focusing on deforestation and peat bog destruction. The speaker explains the various reasons behind deforestation, including the need for...
The Viral Fever
Forests: The Ingenious Bamboo Lifestyle of India's Apatani Tribe
This video explores the unique lifestyle of the Apatani tribe in India's Arunachal Pradesh, who have forged a remarkable system of coexistence with the abundant bamboo forests around them. The tribe utilizes bamboo for various purposes,...
PBS
Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Deforestation is a big problem for the climate. This kind of land use releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any single country, besides the United States or China. And most of the deforestation in the world today happens...
Mazz Media
Forest
This live-action video program is about forests. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
msvgo
Conservation and People - Case Studies
This nugget describes the importance of conserving forests. It provides examples where people have shown exemplary courage in protecting forests.
Visual Learning Systems
Sustainability and Natural Resources: Consumption of Natural Resources
This program serves as an introduction to resource sustainability, focusing on the key strategies of resource efficiency, recycling, reusing, and reducing. The long-term impacts of resource use on human health and the environment are...
Mediacorp
Deforestation and Rising Sea Levels in Bangladesh
This video discusses the importance of the Sunderbans mangrove forests in Bangladesh, which act as a barrier between freshwater sources and the sea. However, deforestation for timber and rising sea levels are threatening the survival of...
Ancient Lights Media
The Geography and Culture of Canada
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Canada.
Earth Rangers
Forests are Big Ecosystems
Forests provide much more than public spaces for exercise, relaxation, and enjoying nature. They are complex ecosystems characterized by biodiversity. Forests are vital to Earth’s water cycle and ensure the survival of all living things...
Visual Learning Systems
Biotic Components
This video explains the different levels of organization in nature, starting with individual organisms and moving up to populations, communities, and ecosystems. Ecosystems part 4/8
Science360
Invasion Of The Earthworms!
Think of earthworms and a few things come to mind: they make great bait for fishing, they aerate the soil, and they're an excellent addition to a compost pile. But, what a lot of people don't know is many earthworms are actually invasive...
Visual Learning Systems
Trees: Importance of Trees
Exploring the world of trees this video defines what makes up a tree including the different parts of the tree. It also explains the difference between deciduous trees and conifer trees and why trees are important parts of our lives....
FuseSchool
Ecosystem Management
Regardless of the habitat type, method of management, or end goal, ecosystem management plays a large part in modern society. Without effective ecosystem management, we would have much less access to the resources that we use for our...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Forest Biomes: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Exploring Forest Biomes video series, students will be able to do the following: Explain that forest biomes vary greatly, but all are dominated by trees. Understand that forests receive moderate to high amounts of...
Mazz Media
Exploring Communities and Geography
Whether students live near an ocean, the mountains or the desert, this exciting program will show them how the geography shapes and molds the daily life and economics of a community. Students will learn about land formation as well as...
Science360
Biogeoscientist - Britt Stephens
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What does a biogeoscientist do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire...
Curated Video
Logging on public lands increases despite President Biden's forest protection efforts
As logging increases in old-growth forests, there is concern among scientists and conservation groups that the Biden Administration isn't doing enough to preserve public land. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Colorado researchers exploring rebuilding scorched forests amid climate change
Wildfires are destroying forests at a faster rate than forest services can replant them — climate change is making it difficult for those trees to grow back. (Scripps News)
Bloomberg
Greek Minister: Wildfires Not Hugely Affecting Tourism Industry
Greek Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis says wildfires in Greece are not massively affecting the country's tourism industry. He speaks with Bloomberg's Lizzy Burden on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe."
Curated Video
Germany - Co2 Emissions Meter, China - Xinjiang Oil, Nigeria - Oil, Brazil: Rainforest Animals, Thailand: Rainforest
Germany - CO2 Emissions meter
Berlin - 31 March 1995 and file
1. Large CO2 emission meter set up by Friends of the Earth in city centre
China - Xinjiang Oil
Desert in Xinjiang Province - 26 May 1995
1. WS truck riding, oil wells in...