Instructional Video5:56
SciShow

Wildfires Make Their Own Weather, Including...

12th - Higher Ed
Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Why’d the Ocean Stop Getting Saltier?

12th - Higher Ed
If salty water is constantly spilling into the world’s oceans, does that mean they are getting saltier by the day?
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

Why Frogs Sometimes Fall From the Sky

12th - Higher Ed
It doesn't seem possible, but animal rain is definitely real, and there is an actual scientific explanation for it... probably.
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

How Do Honey Bees Survive Natural Disasters?

12th - Higher Ed
Honey bees may be small, but they manage to survive some pretty big disasters. Whether it’s hurricanes, wildfires, or even volcanoes, honey bees seem to have a plan for everything.
Instructional Video8:03
SciShow

Five Bizarre Places Frogs Call Home

12th - Higher Ed
Home is where the heart is - and these frogs manage to make their homes in a variety of bizarre places, from cloud forests to wastelands. And sometimes solving the challenges of living in these places involves solutions that are...
Instructional Video10:48
SciShow

What Actually Happens on the Full Moon? | 8 Full-Moon Myths & Facts

12th - Higher Ed
From menstrual cycles to rainfall, there are lots of claims about the moon's influence. In today's episode, Hank is here to set the record straight with 8 myths & facts about our moon.
Instructional Video6:13
SciShow

How Trees Control the Weather

12th - Higher Ed
Who knew that a rainforest could be literal? Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk (she/her)
Instructional Video17:01
SciShow Kids

Can You Guess the Weather? | Weather Guessing Game | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
There’s all sorts of weather out there, so Squeaks and Mister Brown are playing a game show where they will learn all about the different types!
Instructional Video10:41
Crash Course

Serpents and Dragons: Crash Course World Mythology #38

12th - Higher Ed
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power...
Instructional Video11:54
TED Talks

TED: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

12th - Higher Ed
When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques -- and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren't always the best ideas. Peni calls...
Instructional Video14:12
TED Talks

TED: How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons

12th - Higher Ed
Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados,...
News Clip6:06
PBS

As High Temperatures Hurt Sicily's Food Production, Rising Sea Levels Threaten Housing

12th - Higher Ed
Climate change experts in Sicily, Italy are warning that rising sea waters are threatening some of the island's most crucial heavy industrial plants. They are also forecasting food shortages because crops are being destroyed. The island...
News Clip8:17
PBS

Refugees flee conflict sparked by climate change in central Africa

12th - Higher Ed
The climate crisis is now a reality worldwide, but it's nowhere more apparent than the parched landscapes of northern Africa. Thousands are on the move looking for water to grow crops and graze livestock. Special correspondent Willem...
News Clip4:14
PBS

Al Gore calls Trump's deregulation proposals 'literally insane'

12th - Higher Ed
"Former vice president and climate change activist Al Gore warns that climate change could be an "existential threat" and calls President Trump's response an "outlier reaction." In a wide-ranging interview, Judy Woodruff speaks with Gore...
News Clip2:56
PBS

These forest fungi are a bounty for Arizona mushroom hunters

12th - Higher Ed
Mushroom hunters have long fanned out across the forest floor seeking what can be lucrative and delicious finds for teas, broths and medicinal remedies. But what does climate change mean for the fungi? From the Cronkite School of...
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow Kids

Keeping Our Water Clean!

K - 5th
Where does the water on the road go after a rain day? And taking care of them can be very important! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes - Water...
Instructional Video4:06
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Kay Almere Read: The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world. There had already been four worlds, each set in motion by its own "Lord Sun," and each had been destroyed. For a new world to be...
Instructional Video5:30
Be Smart

The Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky

12th - Higher Ed
What's the largest river on Earth? If you said "the Amazon".... you're only half right. Scientists have discovered an even bigger river in South America, and it's in the sky above the Amazon rainforest. Turns out, this sky river is the...
Instructional Video5:40
Be Smart

The Oldest Living Things In The World

12th - Higher Ed
For some forms of live, old-age is relative.
Instructional Video2:44
MinuteEarth

We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think

12th - Higher Ed
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: soil salinity - when soils have high salt levels that have adverse effects on plants
Instructional Video9:35
SciShow

5 Clues to Earth's Climate History

12th - Higher Ed
As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And while we can’t know the future for sure, we can get a lot of good clues from the past.
Instructional Video8:50
SciShow

The Great North American Megadrought

12th - Higher Ed
In a few decades, scientists predict that a widespread, severe drought will sweep across western North America -- and it'll last for decades.
Instructional Video2:14
SciShow

Can Achy Joints Really Predict the Weather?

12th - Higher Ed
Can your grandma really tell when a storm is coming based on her knee? Scientists have been looking into this tale for years, and either way, you should probably still call her just because.
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow Kids

Viewer Mail from Scotland! Science for Kids

K - 5th
Join Jessi and Squeaks as they answer questions in the first viewer mail episode from SciShow Kids!