Curated Video
Human and Environment Interactions
Dr. Forrester describes the ways that severe environmental conditions, such as earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, and droughts, challenged settlers in the United States. She talks about how the Hoover Dam was built for flood control. She...
Curated Video
Advanced Fire Detection Technology: Saving Lives and Homes from Wildfires
Scientists from San Diego State University have developed a cutting-edge system of sensors to detect wildfires in remote areas before they escalate. These sensors, installed in three sites in San Diego County, can identify the start of a...
Curated Video
Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters lists, defines, and provides examples of various types of natural disasters, including: tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, volcanic eruptions, blizzards, and wildfires.
The Guardian
How the Amazon has started to heat the planet
The Amazon absorbs huge amount of CO2 and helps to cool the world, but recent studies have shown the rainforest is approaching a tipping point, with profound implications for the global climate and biodiversity. The section in Brazil,...
Curated Video
Droughts and Water Scarcity
Droughts and Water Scarcity investigates environmental issues by examining problems caused by droughts, challenges of water shortages, and ways to combat water scarcity.
Curated Video
Can AI Improve Air Quality?
Air pollution is an increasingly pressing public health issue, but current monitoring methods fall short. Can AI help?
Curated Video
Deforestation
Deforestation explains how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence the environment and daily lives of people by analyzing the causes and effects of and solutions for deforestation.
Curated Video
Understanding Natural Hazards
The video “Understanding Natural Hazards” distinguishes natural hazards from natural disasters and then discusses the ways that people can cause and prevent such disasters.
Healthcare Triage
Health Harms from Pollution Can Choke the Economy
The Trump Administration's EPA has shown a propensity to ease regulations on polluting industries, in hopes of increasing economic output. Pollution has a lot of very well studied impacts on health, and those health problems can decrease...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Water Bombers
Despite early warnings of a catastrophic fire season, authorities are still scrambling to get extra water bombing aircraft to Australia. Four jet water bombers called up by the Prime Minister are stuck overseas, unable to fly because of...
Weatherthings
Wildfire Safety: Threats and impacts
How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires need fuel and heat, so they can happen in any dry place. They are a natural part of Earth and they do have benefits. Most are caused by human activity. Wildfires...
Science360
WIFIRE helps firefighters get a jump on wildfires
In recent years, the number and scale of wildfires in the U.S. has risen, threatening cities and forests and forcing large-scale evacuations. NSF is supporting the WIFIRE initiative, led jointly by UC San Diego and the University of...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Kangaroo Island
Firefighters are still battling to control the blaze on Kangaroo Island, two weeks after flames tore through dense bush and farmland.
Next Animation Studio
Meteor killed dinosaurs with dust, not wildfires, study finds
New research shows that the great dinosaur die-off was caused by airborne particles ejected directly from the crater made by the Chicxulub meteor
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 35
Wildfire cocktail, electronic tattoos, chill dinosaurs, and office polluters. It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 35. ENG/Light-up tattoos use electronics printed right onto skin...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Victoria Farmers
The bushfires have left huge areas of farmland in ashes. For farmers, that represents not just a loss to their livelihood but often a heritage that’s been generations in the making.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Fire Animals
Months of huge bushfires across the country have claimed more than 20 lives and destroyed about 2000 homes. But there’s another hidden toll to this emergency – the impact on Australia’s unique native wildlife.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Hidden Danger
This summer's bushfire disaster has already taken 28 lives directly, but countless others could suffer from the health impacts of prolonged exposure to toxic smoke.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Cobargo Survival
The fire that swept through the NSW town of Cobargo destroyed homes and businesses and killed two people, but the death toll could have been higher.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Border Fire
Along the border of NSW and Victoria, where three fires have now joined together, communities are still dealing with the devastation. The so-called 'megablaze' has now consumed about 800,000 hectares of land, and dozens of homes.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Gippsland
Fires have ravaged Victoria's east - in Bairnsdale, Lucy Carter met locals returning to find their homes reduced to ash. A number of communities - especially along the coastline of Gippsland - remain completely cut off, with so many...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia on Fire - Batlow
Residents of Batlow on the south west slopes of New South Wales have begun to assess the damage.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Only on Earth
When you think of NASA, you might think of all the incredible mysteries of outer space. But we’re also pretty invested in another very special place … our home. In this episode, join us as we celebrate all the ways NASA keeps an eye on...
Astrum
4 days of Australia burning | 4K view from space
View from space of the Australian bushfires, from the December 30th 2019 to January 2nd 2020. Based on data from JAXA / JMA / Himawari.