Instructional Video5:04
SciShow

Mars's Surface Is Messed Up | The Martian Dichotomy

12th - Higher Ed
Most rocky planets have pretty consistent surface features, with a fairly even mix of mountains and basins in each hemisphere. This is NOT the case on Mars! What do scientists know about this mystery?
Instructional Video11:34
TED Talks

TED: How we can curb climate change by spending two percent more on everything | Jens Burchardt

12th - Higher Ed
Would you pay two percent more for the carbon-neutral version of the products you buy and use every day? In this innovative talk, climate pathfinder Jens Burchardt walks us through the costs and considerations of producing...
Instructional Video4:46
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Massive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation. These...
Instructional Video4:09
SciShow

3 New Missions Just Left for Mars! | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A launch window that only happens every 26 months means it’s the perfect time to head to Mars! The United Arab Emirates, China, and the United States all took advantage of this excellent timing.
Instructional Video5:30
Be Smart

What's REALLY Warming the Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
As earth temperatures continue to rise, what's really to blame?
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Why the Oceans Are Getting Darker

12th - Higher Ed
You’d never tell just by staring out from a sandy beach, but the coasts are gradually getting darker, and the effects of this darkening are only beginning to be understood.
Instructional Video5:55
Bozeman Science

LS4D - Humans and Biodiversity

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen defines biodiversity and explains the impacts humans are having on the planet's biodiversity. Humans are impacting the variety of life on our planet through habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution,...
Instructional Video13:46
TED Talks

TED: What farmers need to be modern, climate-friendly and profitable | Beth Ford

12th - Higher Ed
TED talks about what farmers need to be modern, climate-friendly and profitable
Instructional Video5:31
SciShow

The Real Reason Peppers are Spicy

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow’s hot take: Peppers don’t produce that spicy goodness for the reason you think!
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

How Self Care Can Save the Environment

12th - Higher Ed
If you're feeling anxious about climate change, you're not alone, but taking steps to help the world might also help you.
Instructional Video5:23
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What if there were 1 trillion more trees? | Jean-François Bastin

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossil fuel emissions, and draw down excess CO2 to restore the balance of greenhouse gases. Like all plants, trees consume...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow Kids

What is a Blizzard? | Winter Science | Weather Science | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Usually when it's snowing outside, it's really calm, pretty, and fun to play in! But there are certain types of big snowstorms, called blizzards, that can get really windy, wild, and even dangerous!
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

3 Extreme Climate Fixes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about a few - maybe crazy, maybe reasonable - geoengineering schemes that some scientists have come up with in order to "fix" climate change, including designer clouds, ocean fertilization, and stratospheric shading with...
Instructional Video3:21
TED Talks

Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing

12th - Higher Ed
Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.
Instructional Video10:34
TED Talks

TED: How to fix the "bugs" in the net-zero code | Lucas Joppa

12th - Higher Ed
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft's first chief environmental officer, thinks about climate change through the lens of coding, and he says the world's current net-zero approach simply won't compute. So how do we create a system that actually...
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

The 19th Century Science That's Fighting Climate Change Today

12th - Higher Ed
The HMS Challenger embarked in the 1870s to survey the world’s oceans. The data the expedition collected is still being used over 100 years later to inform what we know about climate change.
Instructional Video15:44
SciShow

Interview with EPA Administrator McCarthy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank interviews Administrator Gina McCarthy of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. They discuss getting people to care about climate change, the EPA's goals going into the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and the...
Instructional Video11:18
TED Talks

TED: How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud

12th - Higher Ed
Biochar is a kind of charcoal that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, helping yield healthy crops and even producing abundant renewable energy in the form of electricity as it's made. This exciting climate change fighter is ready for...
Instructional Video15:55
TED Talks

TED: This computer will grow your food in the future | Caleb Harper

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology....
Instructional Video2:25
SciShow

What If Earth Spun the Other Way?

12th - Higher Ed
How different would things be if Earth had always rotated in the opposite direction?
Instructional Video5:28
TED-Ed

Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? | Elizabeth Cox

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It's 1997. The United States Senate has called a hearing about global warming. Some expert witnesses point out that past periods in Earth's history were warmer than the 20th century. Because such variations existed long before humans,...
Instructional Video21:42
TED Talks

TED: Why climate change is a threat to human rights | Mary Robinson

12th - Higher Ed
Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms,...
Instructional Video13:48
TED Talks

Katharine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

12th - Higher Ed
If we really want to address climate change, we need to make gender equity a reality, says writer and environmentalist Katharine Wilkinson. As part of Project Drawdown, Wilkinson has helped scour humanity's wisdom for solutions to draw...
Instructional Video5:09
Crash Course Kids

Weather Channels

3rd - 8th
Why is my weather app sometimes wrong? Well it has a lot to do with wind. Jet Streams, air cells, the shape and movement of the Earth... there are a lot of things that make weather a little unpredictable. In this episode of Crash Course...