Science360
Greenhouse Gas Emissions - History Of Climate Change Research
When was it first determined that greenhouse gas emissions were causing warming?
NASA
On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 9: Life Bound
We hike in the Australian Outback with Abigail Allwood to visit the most ancient fossils on Earth, and track the imprint of life over space and time with David Grinspoon.
Science360
Modeling our future climate
Discover how data from the ice core record are used to help scientists predict the future of our climate
Next Animation Studio
Researchers find 29 human footprints in Canada
Humans may have been stomping around Canada as early as 13,000 years ago - and they left footprints. According to a study published in the journal PLOS-ONE, researchers discovered an ancient human footprint along the coast of Canada's...
Next Animation Studio
What ended the last ice age? Ocean's carbon release may be the answer
Recent research conducted by the University of Southampton and published in Nature magazine suggests that carbon dioxide released from the ocean played a large role in ending the most recent ice age.
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: How dire wolves and saber-toothed cats hunted
Scientists examined signs of trauma in thousands of dire wolf and saber-toothed cat bones from the La Brea Tar Pits to better understand how these Ice Age beasts hunted and killed their prey.
Next Animation Studio
Prehistoric humans may have arrived the Americas earlier than previously thought: study
Prehistoric humans may have settled in Chiquihuite Cave of Central Mexico 33,000 years ago, according to a study in Nature.
After Skool
Secret Knowledge Hidden Underneath the Great Sphinx - Part 1
The great sphinx of Giza, the oldest known monument from the ancient Egyptian world, stands as a symbol of the arcane mysteries still waiting to be unearthed. Could the truth about our past, and Enki’s knowledge given to humanity, be...
NASA
On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 5: Frozen in Time
Bundle up! We’ll be diving into ice-covered waters with an upside-down robot, and exploring Greenland’s massive ice sheet with oceanographer Josh Willis.
Next Animation Studio
Ice age cut massive channels under North Sea
A new study shows detailed 3D images of hundreds of channels carved into the bedrock under the North Sea.
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Tasting the Ice Age
Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist and Assistant Professor of climate science at the University of Maine, discusses coring and "tasting" the ice age. National Park Service and Schoodic Institute staff assisted with coring in 2016.
NASA
What's Up With Sea Level Rise?
How much and how fast will sea level rise in the coming decades? What makes sea level rise hard to predict? Who will be affected? NASA experts and guests discuss how sea level has risen an average of about seven inches around the globe...
NASA
Massive Crater Discovered Under Greenland Ice
In a remote area of northwest Greenland, an international team of scientists has made a stunning discovery, buried beneath a kilometer of ice. It’s a meteor impact crater, 300 meters deep and bigger than Paris or the Beltway around...
After Skool
How Did The Neanderthals Go Extinct?
Neanderthals are our closest extinct human relatives. They lived in Eurasia 200,000 to 30,000 years ago. There was roughly a 5000 year period where both Neanderthals and Humanslived in the same place at the same time. During this period...
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 4: Phanerozoic Eon – Cenozoic Era
We are almost through the Phanerozoic eon! After the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras, we get to the Cenozoic era, which is the one we are still living in today. This is the age of mammals, which came to dominate the Earth, and here we also...
NASA
NASA | Greenland's Ice Layers Mapped in 3D
Peering into the thousands of frozen layers inside Greenland’s ice sheet is like looking back in time. Each layer provides a record of not only snowfall and melting events, but what the Earth’s climate was like at the dawn of...
AllTime 10s
10 Archaeological Discoveries That Rewrote History
These 10 amazing archaeological discoveries changed the way we think about the modern world! From finding the first ever computer to finding ancient humans the size of Hobbits.
AllTime 10s
10 Apocalypses That We Survived
We all love watching movies where mankind gets wiped out by asteroids or volcanos. But in reality, humanity has survived its fair share of world ending cataclysms. From murderous plagues to world shaking earthquakes, here are 10...
Next Animation Studio
Ice Age flower brought back to life by Russian scientists
Russian scientists have successfully germinated a seed that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for around 30,000 years. The perfectly preserved Silene stenophylla seeds were found in ancient squirrel tunnels located around 125...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Elephants
This video is about elephants. It covers various topics including the size and physical characteristics of elephants, their evolution, anatomy and physiology, their social structure and behavior, and the conservation efforts being made...
Visual Learning Systems
Geology of North America: the Ice Age
North America's geology and topography is a fascinating and beautiful story. This video captures footage from throughout the continent to tell this captivating story. Major geological events such as the formation of the Appalachian and...
Step Back History
Did Columbus Really Discover America?
Was Columbus even the first explorer on America’s shores?
PBS
Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed the climate. But since the...