Weatherthings
Gulf Coast Hurricane of July, 1916
A Category 3 hurricane made landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama State line on July 5, 1916, with record wind and storm surge impact in Mobile, Alabama, and then inland flooding throughout several states. Newspapers reported, “The...
Weatherthings
Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900
The Hurricane of 1900 striking Galveston, Texas, is known as the deadliest weather disaster in the United States. An estimated 8,000 people were killed by a hurricane that arrived with little notice, leaving over 10,000 people homeless,...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - Water Cycle
Learn the basics about the water cycle as part of the environmental chemistry topic. This also features in the Biology course too.
Visual Learning Systems
What Is the Water Cycle?: What Is a Cycle?
This beautiful program illustrates the key components of the water cycle that occurs everywhere around us. Concepts and terminology: condensation, evaporation, precipitation, cloud, rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
Science360
Dead Trees & Dirty Water In The Rockies
The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...
Mazz Media
Precipitation
This live-action video program is about precipitation. 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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Oceanic Economics
At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water, the world’s...
Curated Video
Bailey's Big Back Yard: It's Raining
In this program Bailey learn follows a rainstorm from the beginning to the end. Through his magical magnifying glass, he comes to understand what happens to cause a rainstorm and why? Bailey learns how people are affected by rain as he...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Michael - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Michael was a late-season storm in 2018 that grew to become the most powerful hurricane on record to hit the central Florida Panhandle. After landfall as a Category 4 storm, it remained a major hurricane, moving into Georgia....
Science360
Los Angeles & Water Imports
The nearly 10 million people in the city and county of Los Angeles, California require a lot of water -- most of which is imported snow melt from the Eastern Sierra Nevadas and Rocky Mountains, hundreds of miles away. UCLA researchers...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Harvey - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Harvey rapidly strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017, before making landfall in Texas, as one the strongest hurricanes there in over 50 years. The high wind quickly faded after landfall, but the rain continued as the storm...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Dorian - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Hurricane Dorian was the most powerful storm known ever to hit the Bahamas. Dorian remained over the northern Bahamas for more than two days as a category five storm. It tied for the second most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic as it...
Science360
What About Climate Change And The Global Water Cycle? - The Water Cycle
Does the ocean reveal anything about the impact of climate change on the global water cycle?
NASA
Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Why Do We Have a Moon? With Robin Canup
Learn about how the Moon formed in this conversation with Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute.
Mazz Media
Bailey's Big Back Yard: It's Hot
Bailey is planning a fun summer day's activity with Boggs. Bailey realizes that knowing what the weather will be is important and comes to understand that the middle of the day is the hottest time. They learn about keeping themselves and...
TMW Media
Properties Of Water: How water sustains living things
How do plants use water to live and grow? How does water help the human body? What food contains the highest amount of water? Properties Of Water, Part 3
Curated Video
The Science of Rain: Understanding Precipitation and its Forms
Explore the fascinating process of rain and the water cycle. From evaporation to condensation and ultimately precipitation, we learn how water transforms and falls from the sky. We also discover the different forms of precipitation, such...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Sally
Hurricane Sally made landfall, only moving at 3mph, leading to tremendous rainfall, and an extremely long period of hurricane-force winds for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida, in 2020. The impact was far worse than most people...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Florence - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Florence was a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic in 2018 but after it made landfall on the North Carolina coast as a Category 1 and weakened to a tropical storm it did most of its damage. This slow-moving storm left record rainfall and...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Irma - The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society
Intense Hurricane Irma made 7 different landfalls in 2017 and became one of the most expensive hurricanes in the last hundred years, moving from the Caribbean to the Bahamas to the United States. Dozens of people were killed by the storm...
Curated Video
The Science of Clouds
This video provides a comprehensive overview of clouds, explaining what they are, how they form, and their different types. It also highlights the role of clouds in the water cycle and their impact on weather patterns. The video...
Curated Video
The Water Cycle: Understanding how water is recycled and used over and over again
This is a lecture presentation on the water cycle, which explains how water is constantly recycled and used over and over again. The presenter first discusses the importance of recycling elements and compounds in general because the...
Weatherthings
Ship Tracks
Ships leave trails of vapor, called ship tracks, in humid ocean air. You see them here, on satellite.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Meet NASA’s New Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, with Kate Calvin
Climate change is one of the most important issues facing our planet, and NASA has lots of space missions and programs in the works to monitor and understand its drivers and effects. Kate Calvin, NASA’s new chief scientist, is also the...