Weatherthings
Weather Things: Floods
The cycle of water from the air to the ground to the oceans and back to the air never ends. Water is found in the air, in the ground, in rivers and oceans, and it's found as gas, liquid, and solid. As it moves though phases and locations...
Brian McLogan
How to multiply a mixed number by a fraction
👉 Learn how to multiply mixed numbers. To multiply mixed numbers, we first convert the mixed numbers to improper fractions and then multiply the resulting mixed numbers by multiplying the numerator by the numerator and the denominator by...
Curated Video
A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.100 Imagery: Flooding
In Shakespeare's time, excessive rain posed as much risk to agriculture and livestock as drought did, leading to crop rot, washaways, and livestock drowning. This not only affected farmers negatively but also disrupted recreational...
Mediacorp
Trouble on the Mekong: The Impact on Cambodia's Flooding Crisis
This video explains that Cambodia is experiencing severe flooding due to persistent rains and the Mekong River overflowing. Thousands of people have been affected or displaced, and agricultural lands have been inundated. This video sheds...
Makematic
Global Icons: Margaret Mead
A short animation about the life of Global Icon Margaret Mead and how she represents Intercultural Knowledge
National Geographic
Flooding in Miami | Years of Living Dangerously
In some neighborhoods in Florida, people may not know that regular flooding is caused by sea level rise. Nicole Hernandez Hammer, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, takes Jack Black to investigate. ➡ Subscribe:...
NASA
NASA | Too Much, Too Little
Researchers need accurate and timely rainfall information to better understand and model where and when severe floods, frequent landslides and devastating droughts may occur. GPM's global rainfall data will help to better prepare and...
Curated Video
Human and Environment Interactions
Dr. Forrester describes the ways that severe environmental conditions, such as earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, and droughts, challenged settlers in the United States. She talks about how the Hoover Dam was built for flood control. She...
Healthcare Triage
Climate Change Is Already Impacting Our Health
Massive storms, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, air pollution, increased rates of disease, changes to our food and water… global warming, and the changes to climate that come with it, are increasing human health risks. Our physical and...
Curated Video
Could Climate Change Your Life?
Wherever you live, climate change could affect you. Discover how the predicted changes could affect peoples around the globe. Human Geography - A Changing World - Learning Points. Global atmospheric patterns are causing concern, as...
The Guardian
How Kenya is flooding in a drought | It's Complicated
For more than 10 years, Kenya’s great lakes have been flooding, displacing hundreds of thousands of people as rising water levels leave towns and villages almost completely submerged. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ►...
The Guardian
The toll of climate change, from US to the Marshall Islands: 'No one's an exception'
If global temperatures rise more than 1.5C, the Marshall Islands are likely to disappear. Subscribe to The Guardian ► http://is.gd/subscribeguardian The thin atolls scattered across the Pacific Ocean are already seeing regular flooding...
Big Think
Margaret Atwood on Climate Change: Anti-Science Can Only Be Surmounted by Economics
Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets. Atwood's latest book is "Hag-Seed" (https://goo.gl/zCzbFj). Read more at BigThink.com:...
PBS
Climate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
In 2017, storms, floods, and droughts displaced 18 million people from their homes worldwide. And by some estimates, over the next three decades, 200 million people may need to leave their homes to escape the same kind of disasters, made...
NASA
6 Things You Don’t Know About Snow
Thanks to a half-century of snow observations, NASA scientists have learned a number of amazing facts about snow, which are crucial to understanding what’s necessary to advance snow measurements. Scientists are in the field right now,...
NASA
How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...
Curated Video
Living Green - Episode 59 - Water Issues
We read about it, talk about it, hear it on the news the global water crisis is everywhere, and it s not about to go away, any time soon. For the powers-that-be, it s one of the most important issues to consider. How to make sure the...
Curated Video
El Niño
The legendary El Niño effect causes dramatic shifts of weather, resulting in droughts and floods across the globe. It can all be traced to winds dying down over the Pacific ocean. Earth Science - Weather - Learning Points. El Niño is a...
The Guardian
Why rivers shouldn't look like this
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually how it is supposed to look. It's the result of centuries of industrial and agricultural...
Curated Video
What is the Riskiest Region in the US as the Climate Changes
Climate Change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters all around the world. And in the United States, more and more people seem to be moving to the places that are projected to be most impacted by climate change,...
NASA
How remote sensing can help address food security around the world
When floods, droughts, and other natural disasters hit isolated and poor regions of the world, it can have devastating impacts on the local price of food. NASA Goddard research scientist Molly Brown is using satellite data to investigate...
Curated Video
What is weather?
Check out the various forms of weather, what causes it, and how it affects our lives. People and places -Physical geography - Weather Learning Points The weather is the current state of the atmosphere in a particular location on Earth....
Curated Video
The Lost City of Peru
Over 2,000 years ago, a little known civilisation called the Moche dominated the North coast of Peru. Huge palaces and amazing artifacts were abandoned, buried under sand after a mass evacuation. Why? Earth Science - Weather - Learning...
Mediacorp
Trouble on the Mekong: The Importance of Tonle Sap Lake
The video explores the importance of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, highlighting its role as the largest lake in Southeast Asia and a UNESCO biosphere reserve. However, the video also discusses the challenges faced by the lake due to...