Curated Video
The Ozone Layer and Hole
More than 90 percent of the Earth s ozone exists in the lower reaches of the stratosphere, between 13 and 20 kilometres up. Known as the Ozone layer it acts as a filter that absorbs between 93 and 99 percent of the high energy...
Life Noggin
What If You Fell From Space to Earth?
If you fell from space, what would happen to your body? The first 200 people to sign up get 20% off Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/lifenoggin/ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch:...
NASA
NASA Satellites Keep Watch on U.S. Food Supply
Since 2008, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, or NASS, has drawn on Landsat data to monitor dozens of crops in the lower 48 states as part of NASS's Cropland Data Layer program. The Cropland Data layer uses Landsat and...
Science360
National Ice Core Lab Stores Valuable Ancient Ice
It's a freezing cold day inside the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in Denver, Colo., as it is every day of the year. That's because the NICL is a facility for storing and studying ice cores recovered from the polar regions of the...
MinuteEarth
The 4 Steps That Could Solve Every Global Crisis
Check out the heroes who saved the ozone layer at https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award/ Lots of global problems seem intractable, but there’s a formula for success that we can follow. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more...
MinuteEarth
The Ocean’s Weirdly Specific Temperature
Get started mitigating your carbon footprint with Wren at https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth The temperature at the ocean's surface varies widely, but down below, the ocean is pretty much all one temperature. Why? LEARN MORE...
Crash Course
The Earth
Your fingernails grow at approximately the same rate Earth's continents move. The video discusses Earth as a planet, its layers, our magnetic field, the atmosphere, and the human impact on Earth. It provides interesting facts that...
Be Smart
100,000,000 Years From Now
Holocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene ... wait, did I miss one? PBS Digital Studios explains how human impact on Earth has potentially brought about a new epoch in geologic history, the Anthropocene....
Crash Course
Stars
Star light, start bright! What do the brightness and color of stars tell us about the stars we see at night? Learners explore the life of stars with an information-packed video. Topics include the relationship between mass and...