TED Talks
TED: It's impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet | Shweta Narayan
The doctrine of "first, do no harm" is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath, one of the world's oldest codes of ethics. It governs the work of physicians -- but climate and health campaigner Shweta Narayan says it should go further. In this...
SciShow
Why Do Manatees Die When Power Plants Shut Down?
While the Florida manatee is threatened by human activity in a myriad of ways, perhaps the most surprising among those threats is the closing of aging power plants.
TED Talks
TED: Africa's great carbon valley -- and how to end energy poverty | James Irungu Mwangi
Our lives depend on curbing climate change, but so many priorities seem to be in competition. What's the most urgent thing humanity can do right now? Social entrepreneur James Irungu Mwangi tells us why Africa could be the ideal home for...
Be Smart
The Surprising Places We Waste Energy
We use a LOT of energy, but we waste a lot too. Where that waste happens might surprise, you though. We don't just waste energy when we leave the lights on or the thermostat cranked down too low. It happens at the dinner table and the...
SciShow
The Future of Driving | Compilation
Self driving cars and self-repairing roads: the future of driving is bright, or at least less aggravating.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What does the world's largest machine do? | Henry Richardson
In 1967, Homer Loutzenheuser flipped a switch and connected the power grids of the United States, forming one interconnected machine. Today, the US power grid is the world's largest machine, containing more than 7,300...
SciShow
How Green Energy Could Bring More Rain to Africa
Africa’s Sahara desert is a prime location, some say, to build arrays of solar panels and wind turbines. But scientists are aware that building these structures can potentially have large-scale effects on the surrounding environment that...
Curated Video
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The law of conservation of energy tells us that energy is neither created or destroyed - just converted from one form to another. This means that we cannot make energy from nothing and energy does not just disappear. Energy, however, can...
Curated Video
The Elements: Plutonium
Plutonium is an element with so much energy it has powered space probes beyond our Solar System. Chemistry - Periodic Table - Learning Points. Plutonium is a radioactive metal. Plutonium was named after the planet Pluto. Plutonium is...
Wonderscape
How Nuclear Reactors Generate Power
This video explains the process of nuclear fission and how it powers nuclear reactors to produce electricity. Learn how uranium atoms are split to create heat, which then drives steam turbines to generate energy, all while avoiding...
Wonderscape
Climate Change: The Intensifying Greenhouse Effect
Learn how the enhanced greenhouse effect, driven by human activities, leads to global climate change. Delve into the role of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in trapping more heat in the atmosphere, and discover the...
Healthcare Triage
Climate Change, Particulate Pollution, and Air Quality
We’re back with another episode on climate change and health, and this time we’re looking at some of the indirect health effects, with a focus on how things like air pollution and allergens arise from a warming planet and make us sick,...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Sources of Electricity
In this video, we explore the various sources of electricity that power our homes and devices. From power plants using coal, oil, or water to generate electricity, to batteries relying on chemical reactions, and even solar cells...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Nuclear Energy
This video provides a brief overview of nuclear energy as a source of electricity. The video also mentions the advantages, such as a large fuel supply and minimal environmental pollution, as well as the disadvantages, including high...
Next Animation Studio
Asian countries expanding coal plants in other nations: report
China, Japan and South Korea are expanding coal plants in developing nations despite mounting evidence that the climate continues to get worse.
The Wall Street Journal
The State of the Market
LevelTen Energy’s Gia Clark discusses supply and demand dynamics playing out in the corporate market for renewable energy and the implications for energy transition.
msvgo
Atmospheric pollution
This nugget explains pollution of the layers surrounding the earth, air pollutants, global warming and green house effect, acid rain, ozone hole, photochemical smog.
The March of Time
1948: EUROPE'S POST WAR RECOVERY
MOT 1948: EUROPE'S POST WAR RECOVERY - animated map showing Marshall Plan money and goods transferred from the US to Europe / montage - farming with tractor, construction, shoe factory interior.
NASA
Air Quality: A Tale of Three Cities
Dr. Bryan N. Duncan is a deputy project scientist for the Aura Mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He recently presented the story of air quality in three cities: Beijing, Los Angeles and Atlanta....
Economics Explained
The Harsh Economics of Climate Change
Global warming is something that threatens to impact us all: both environmentally (with the loss of natural marvels such as the great barrier reef) and economically. But humans aren't actually contributing as significantly as you may...
Economics Explained
China’s Blackouts Are Shining Light On A New Problem: Introduction & Chinas Energy Crisis Past and Present
What is the fundamental reason behing the Chinese blackouts and what could this teach us about our modern global economy's relationship with energy? Also, what could we learn from this issue when inevitably faced with our own energy...
Next Animation Studio
China's "artificial sun" marks development in nuclear fusion
Researchers from China's Hefei Institutes of Physical Science reported its fusion reactor reached 100 million degrees Celsius, over six times the temperature of the sun's core.
ACDC Leadership
Shifting the Production Possibilities Curve - Macro Topic 1.2 (Micro Topic 1.3)
In this video I explain how the production possibilities curve shifts when there is a change in resources or a change in technology. Understanding the general concept will help you understand the idea of economic growth, but keep in mind...
Mazz Media
Coal
This live-action video program is about coal The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...