The video explains the concept of species and biodiversity. The video also highlights the diversity of living things in a natural habitat, such as a reef, and introduces the term "biodiversity" as a measure of the number of species in...

This video provides an introduction to biodiversity and discusses some of the human impacts on it. It covers topics such as overfishing, fish farming, introduction of new species, eutrophication, and programs aimed at maintaining or...

This live-action video program is about the word biodiversity. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word biodiversity through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...

In this video we'll learn about how human activity has a negative impact on the Earth because of burning fossil fuels, deforestation and creating waste.

This video discusses the importance of organic gardening and the benefits of growing your own fresh produce. It provides tips and guidance on preparing the soil, choosing the right plants, proper watering techniques, natural pest...

Some 20,000 new seed samples were added to the collection held by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway late last month. The new additions included Japanese barley, Brazilian beans, wild potatoes and wild sweet potatoes from Peru, and...

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...

Lansing is director of the Complexity Institute at Nanyang Technological University. He also is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona and senior fellow at theStockholm Resilience...

Many Native American tribes use origin stories, or stories about creation, to explain how life came to exist and to highlight the relationship between nature and humankind. In this story, a member of the Ojibwe tribe shares an origin...

Overview of how scientists measure biodiversity.

A teaspoon of agricultural soil contains more than a billion living organisms. This biodiversity plays a key role in its ability to support plant life, including crops, but identifying and counting soil microbes is incredibly difficult....

Biodiversity is the variety of life. It can be studied on many levels, from looking at all of the 8.7 million species on our planet to a specific ecosystem like a patch of woodland. In this video we are going to look at the importance of...

Biodiversity is a key concept in ecology and has importance on both local and global scales. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life, or put more simply, the number of different individuals and lifeforms in an area. Scientists...

This video provides an overview of biodiversity, focusing on the three layers or types of diversity: genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. The video also highlights the significance of species diversity in...

This video is a lecture presentation on biodiversity. The video explains the importance of maintaining high levels of biodiversity and how human activities are reducing it. The presenter uses examples to illustrate how changes in one...

In this live-action program viewers will learn that biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of all living organisms and the different ecological complexes in which they exist.

Students will come to understand that the...

The world is filled with many living things of all shapes and sizes. From plants and animals to fungi and bacteria, every living thing is important and plays a role on our Earth. The variety of living things in a habitat is known as...

It presents arguments for conservation of biodiversity including narrowly utilitarian, broadly utilitarian and ethical reasons. It also describes in-situ and ex-situ conservations methods.

In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the impact of biodiversity on extinction vulnerability in terms of trophic redundancy. Article citation: Dirk Sanders, Elisa...

Learn more about the issue of biodiversity loss in this interview with Dr. Enrique Salmón.

The Congo basin is an unruly ribbon of tropical forest, over a million square miles spanning six countries in Central Africa. It is the second-largest contiguous tropical forest in the world. The basin is home to the classics...

In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explores the four main categories of communication for life on Earth, and discusses the realities of interspecies communication. Guest starring: Adrian Adams as the bit partner, Sean Kirkpatrick as...

On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of engineering by describing and displaying some examples of high tech and everyday biomimicry.

In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the increasing nocturnality of mammals around the globe. Article citation: Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and...