SciShow
4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math
There are lots of unsolved mysteries in the world of math, and many of them start off with a deceptively simple premise, like: What's the biggest couch you can slide around a 90-degree corner? Hosted by: Michael Aranda
SciShow
The Incredible World of Trees | SciShow Tree Compilation
Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us!
SciShow
Mountain Pine Beetle Update: SciShow Talk Show
SciShow welcomes back Diana Six to talk to us about current news on the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak. Then, Jessi Knudsen Castañeda stops by and brings a familiar friend whose anatomy may help scientists develop better hypodermic needles.
SciShow
The Earth's Internet: How Fungi Help Plants Communicate
Plants have their own interconnected networks that allow them to communicate with each other, sometimes over considerable distances!
SciShow
How Trees Control the Weather
Who knew that a rainforest could be literal? Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk (she/her)
SciShow
Why These Weird Carnivores Smell Like Popcorn
If it smells like delicious buttered popcorn when you are in a middle of the forest, it’s not because there’s a movie theater nearby, but Binturongs, arboreal carnivore, might be.
TED Talks
TED: The natural building blocks of sustainable architecture | Michael Green
If we're going to solve the climate crisis, we need to talk about construction. The four main building materials that humans currently use -- concrete, steel, masonry and wood -- have a heavy environmental impact, but what if we had a...
SciShow Kids
The Layers of the Redwood Forest | Explore the Redwoods | SciShow Kids
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods!
Crash Course
Witches and Hags: Crash Course World Mythology #39
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...
TED Talks
TED: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill
If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin...
TED Talks
TED: An Indigenous perspective on humanity's survival on Earth | Jupta Itoewaki
Eighty percent of the world's biodiversity is within Indigenous territories, yet these communities often don't have a say when it comes to protecting the lands they inhabit. Environmental activist Jupta Itoewaki explains why Indigenous...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do beavers build dams? | Glynnis Hood
Nestled in the forests of Canada sits the world's longest beaver dam. This 850-meter-long structure is large enough to be seen in satellite imagery and has dramatically transformed the region, creating a pond containing 70 million liters...
PBS
National parks turn into classrooms for a new generation
At the Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco, students learning by seeing, touching and smelling. The education program is administered by the National Park Service in an attempt to expose the next generation to the...
PBS
Widespread Logging Threatens The Congo Basin’s Critical Rainforest
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a massive country, with a land area the size of Alaska and Texas combined. It’s also home to a large part of the Congo Basin rainforest, a habitat for countless species and a crucial absorber of...
PBS
Congo Basin’s Endangered Wildlife Find Unlikely Guardians In Indigenous Hunters
The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest and a unique array of biodiversity. But the ecosystem's remote location cannot protect it from the threat of poaching. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar and...
PBS
Fighting Malaria In The Remote Reaches Of Cambodia
Malaria causes nearly half a million deaths worldwide every year. Ninety percent of them are in sub-Saharan Africa, where poor infrastructure limits delivery of drugs. But now there is worry that those drugs are losing effectiveness as...
PBS
Trees across the U.S. face dire threats, new report shows
A new report out this week warns that at least 1 in 9 tree species in the U.S. are at risk of extinction. Trees face a host of threats including invasive species, deadly disease and climate change. The data comes as part of the most...
PBS
The tough decision of which species to save from extinction
Roughly 1 million species of wildlife face extinction worldwide, according to a recent United Nations report. Ecologist and author Rebecca Nesbit joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the ethics and decision-making process behind figuring out...
Bozeman Science
Natural Ecosystem Change
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the Earth's climate will natural change due to interactions between the Sun and Earth, volcanism, and plate tectonics. Species may go extinct leading to adaptive radiation or may move to a...
SciShow
6 of The Weirdest Places on Earth | Compilation
There are a lot of weird places here on Earth, but here are a few of our favorite strange spots!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
While feedback loops are a bummer at band practice, they are essential in nature. What does nature's feedback look like, and how does it build the resilience of our world? Anje-Margriet Neutel describes some common positive and negative...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
Our planet's diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they're actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in...
TED Talks
TED: The powerful women on the front lines of climate action | Farwiza Farhan
When it comes to big problems like climate change, we tend to focus on big solutions -- but many of the best ideas come from people on the ground, facing day-to-day conservation battles. Sharing her effort to protect the Leseur ecosystem...
Crash Course
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines: Crash Course Theater #16
This week we're continuing our discussion of William Shakespeare and looking at his comedies and romances. As well as something called problem plays. Some of his plays, they had problems. We'll also put on pants, escape to forest, and...