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Food Security
Even though enough food is grown to feed all 7 billion people on Earth, around 795 million (so 1 in 9 people) do not eat enough food to maintain good health. These people don’t just live in less developed countries, being undernourished...
Maddie Moate
Where does Rubber come from?
Earlier this year Greg and I travelled to Thailand where we discovered that rubber comes from trees! Find out how natural rubber grows and learn how the locals take it from under the bark!
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Why Does Biodiversity Matter To Me?
Biodiversity is the variety of life. It can be studied on many levels, from looking at all of the 8.7 million species on our planet to a specific ecosystem like a patch of woodland. In this video we are going to look at the importance of...
Curated Video
The Importance of Biodiversity in Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biodiversity. The video explains the importance of maintaining high levels of biodiversity and how human activities are reducing it. The presenter uses examples to illustrate how changes in one...
Earth Rangers
Wildlife in the City
Wildlife in the city? It may seem odd to hear the word “wildlife” linked to the word “city.” However, animals live wherever they can find food and shelter. Cities can provide both for many types of wildlife. Animals use their survival...
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Parental Care
Some animals have special behaviour with regards to rearing their young because they display parental care. This is where parents care for their young offspring which can include food and shelter or teaching their young how to survive....
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What Are Trophic Levels?
How do we find out the position that an organism occupies in a food chain? The different feeding positions in a food chain or web are called trophic levels. All food chains and webs have at least two trophic levels, starting at level one...
Earth Rangers
Biodiversity
The world is filled with many living things of all shapes and sizes. From plants and animals to fungi and bacteria, every living thing is important and plays a role on our Earth. The variety of living things in a habitat is known as...
Curated Video
Feeding Relationships and Predator-Prey Cycles in Ecosystems
This is a lecture presentation on feeding relationships in ecosystems. The presenter discusses the interdependence of different organisms in a community and the consequences of a change in that community. Using a specific community as an...
Professor Dave Explains
Herpetologist Jessica Ford (Get to Know a Scientist!)
What is a herpetologist? It's someone who studies reptiles and amphibians! Meet Jessica Ford, a PhD candidate at McGill University, who studies toads and tadpoles and their connection with the environment. If you like playing in the mud,...
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Ecological Pyramids
Learn all about ecological pyramids and how to show quantitative data about relationships between species.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
A Challenge for the Next Generation
In part 8 of INET's video interview with John Fullerton, he says that hope lies with the young: they're not as stuck in the old paradigm of perpetual growth, and more open minded to new thinking like systems science
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Pest Control
A pest is an organism that eats or damages crop plants that are grown in agriculture. Pests can be controlled using pesticides or by introducing other species, also known as biological control. Pesticides are natural or synthetic...
Zach Star
Earth and Environmental Science - Careers, Concentrations, and Courses
This video covers the Earth and Environmental science major and places an emphasis on earth science, soil science, geology, and hydrology. The Earth and Environmental Science major is a broad major that allows students a lot of...
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Parasites And Hosts
Let's learn all about parasites. Parasites are organisms that live on or in other organisms! This is known as the host organism. The relationship can be mutually beneficial - so is good for both species. Or it can have a negative impact...
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Differences Between Natural & Artificial Ecosystems
An ecosystem can be defined as a large, highly interconnected area of the planet that is composed of several different biotic and abiotic components. A good example of an ecosystem would be an entire forest or mountain range. A natural...
Next Animation Studio
Climate change is turning Earth into an alien planet
Scientists have modeled what our planet would look like in 500 years if it keeps warming up at the present rate.
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Adaptations Of Camels
Camels are specially adapted for life in the desert. Their body shape and physiology has adapted to suit the harsh environment. Over thousands and thousands of years, the environment has put extreme selection pressures on camels, and...
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What Are Interspecific & Intraspecific Interactions
From this video you should know the difference between interspecific and intraspecific, and that interactions can be positive, negative or neutral. Interspecific interactions are between different species (think international)....
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Human impacts on Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety of life. There are thought to be 8.7 million species on planet Earth. And, as we saw in this video, biodiversity is of utmost importance to humans. The loss of one key species can have a detrimental impact on...
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Food Chains & Food Webs
A food chain is a single path, which help us to work out who eats whom in a habitat, in order to get the energy and materials required for nutrition. Typically food chains involve around four steps. It is unusual for them to be longer...
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Food Chain
In this video, we are going to look at a food chain and the different roles within that. So we will discover exactly what each of these words mean: food web, food chain, trophic level, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore,...
Mazz Media
Ecology
This live-action video program is about the word ecology. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word ecology through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
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Greenland's meltwater increasing rate of sea level rise
According to a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers extracted ice core data in order to examine rates of surface melt and run-off in Greenland.