This video provides a brief overview of deserts, highlighting their coverage of Earth's surface and their locations between 30 degrees North and South latitude. It mentions some of the largest deserts, such as the Sahara and the Gobi,...

How can you see the atmosphere? By tracking what is carried on the wind. Tiny aerosol particles such as smoke, dust, and sea salt are transported across the globe, making visible weather patterns and other normally...

This video provides a captivating glimpse into the majestic world of the African lion, highlighting its role as the undisputed king of the Serengeti. Through stunning visuals and informative narration, viewers are transported to the...

This brief video explores the four main types of desert found on our planet: Hot and Dry, Semiarid, Coastal, and Cold.

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For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts...

This video discusses the fascinating world of raptors, focusing on the two remaining families of primarily nocturnal owls. It explores their evolution from dinosaurs and their unique adaptations for hunting and scavenging. The video...

NASA's Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) instrument, flying aboard an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft in this summer's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3 mission, is studying the changing profile of the atmosphere in detail to learn...

What was West Africa like before the Europeans arrival? How did the empires grow, flourish and eventually decline?<br/>
West Africa Before the Europeans, Part 1

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering...

Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as...

Lucas Del Paso Cánovas took two weeks to travel from Portugal to Italy, travelling 3,600 kilometres. Not only did Lucas travel this distance in the open ocean with no support, he also stopped and gathered all of the plastic that he...

Mansa Musa is remembered as one of the wealthiest rulers in history. He was of the Mandinka people and a ruler of the Mali Empire. Musa rose to power in 1312, at the height of the Mali empire and a time when the vast gold supply of...

We do not know for sure if the sunken city of Atlantis is real. The only written record of its existence is from the great philosopher Plato. Even the location of this utopia is a mystery. Many different locations have been proposed as...

John Farnworth has a number of freestyle records. He demonstrates them and discusses how he learns new skills and how he prepares to break records. This video could be used to lead a session on ball skills.

A new study by MIT suggests that the Sahara desert may have once flourished with nature.

How did Europeans slowly arrive early on in West Africa? How politically diverse was West Africa?<br/>
West Africa Before the Europeans, Part 4

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

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

Este programa de video de accion en vivo es sobre la palabra Medioambiente. El programa esta disenado para reforzar y apoyar la comprension y retencion por el estudiante de la palabra Medioambiente mediante el uso de secuencias de video,...

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

The Security Council on Friday approved Rabat’s plan to keep sovereignty over the territory, despite fierce opposition from Algeria.

Greece recently experienced an extraordinary event as strong southerly winds carried Sahara Desert dust, casting an apocalyptic, Martian-like hue across the skies. The phenomenon, reminiscent of a sci-fi scene, transformed the landscape,...

People living in Athens have seen the sky turn orange.