After Skool
Mass Extinction Crisis TODAY
There have been 6 massive extinctions in our planet's history. The first, happened 440 million years ago when an Extreme temperature drops froze the oceans and killed 86% of early life on earth. Over the next 66 million years, the seas...
Curated Video
Biotic Factors: How Living Things Impact Communities and Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biotic factors. The presenter defines and explains how biotic factors, which are living factors that affect a community, can impact the members and distribution of organisms in ecosystems. The...
Rock 'N Learn
Life Science: Cells
Here's an exciting way to learn important facts and get ready for a life science test! In this episode we'll be looking at cells.
Visual Learning Systems
The Biosphere: Summing Up
This program explores the major features of earth's amazing biosphere. Students are introduced to the biotic and abiotic components found in an ecosystem. Footage from throughout the world illustrates how ecosystems can change over time....
Independent Producers
The Changing Ecosystem of the Bering Sea
Ice is an essential component of the ecosystem of the Bering Sea region. For example, sea ice cover can dramatically affect the levels of phytoplankton which has enormous effects on the entire food web. In this public radio story we hear...
Curated Video
Human Activities and the Reduction of Biodiversity
The video discusses the importance of biodiversity, which is the variety of all the different species of organisms on Earth or within an ecosystem. It explains how human activities such as waste management, deforestation, and global...
EarthEcho International
Ocean Acidification: Threatening Our Water Planet
This video explores the effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and the communities that rely on them. Through interviews with scientists, students, and fishermen in the Pacific Northwest, viewers learn about the causes and...
Science360
Supercomputers Assist In Climate Forecasting - Innovators
Responding to the challenge of climate change requires understanding more about climate variability and the changes expected. Jim Kinter, director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), explains how scientists there are...
EarthEcho International
Engineering Solutions for Ocean Acidification
The video discusses the issue of ocean acidification and its impact on marine ecosystems and human health. It also highlights the work of scientists and organizations, including the XPRIZE Foundation, in developing tools to measure ocean...
Michigan Radio
Burning Grass for Alternative Electricity
Energy experts are thinking about ways to replace coal that’s burned in American power stations. One alternative is to burn plants because they can produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. This results in biomass power. Listen to learn...
EarthEcho International
Exploring the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Earth
The video explores the effects of ocean acidification on our planet, with a focus on the impact it has on shellfish and the food chain. It offers solutions and highlights the work of Earth Echo International and scientists in the Pacific...
Barcroft Media
Adorable Snow Monkeys Bathe in Hot Springs: CUTE AS FLUFF
Relaxed Japanese monkeys take a bath in the hot springs of Hells Valley. Filmed in the Jigokudani Monkey Park, wild Japanese macaques more commonly known as snow monkeys live in the valley during the winter. Jigokudani translates as...
Earth Rangers
Building Bee Habitats
Many people have a negative reaction to the sound of a buzzing insect. Past experience or an allergic reaction may inspire a person to run from or even swat at a bee. However, bumblebees actually help humans, and right now they need the...
Barcroft Media
Lion King: 23-Year-Old Is Best Friends With Big Cats
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: HANDSOME lion wrangler Shandor Larenty is so busy with his lions and hyenas - who like to give him kisses - has no time for romantic relationships with girls. While his friends were out partying and enjoying...
Independent Producers
Beach Erosion Threatens Infrastructure
What happens when human structures and nature come into conflict? Ocean Beach in San Francisco is naturally eroding, but the consequence of this shifting shoreline is that a sewage treatment plant is put in peril. Without intervention,...
Barcroft Media
Cow Urine Heralded As Miracle Cure
VRINDAVAN, INDIA: The ISKCON Goshala in Vrindavan has recently figured in the news for it's production of Aurvedic drinks made of distilled cow urine, yes, COW URINE!!!! The drink is thought of as a miracle cure for several diseases,...
Independent Producers
Industrial Scale Composting
Students in Bellingham, Washington, pushed to introduce composting programs at their high schools and these programs have proved successful. This story follows food from the school cafeteria to the compost site where microorganisms...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
The Secret Things Living In Your Drains
Next Animation Studio
Massive iceberg breaks from Eastern Antarctica
Scientists said iceberg D-28 is among the largest to calve from Antarctic ice in decades, but is not caused by climate change.
FuseSchool
What Is Environmental Sampling?
From this video you will learn that ecologists are interested in the distribution of organisms within habitats, and use transects and quadrats and other sampling methods to collect quantitative data. They take unbiased and representative...
Independent Producers
Tuna Fishing and the Dolphin Morgue
When people started using large nets to capture tuna in the 1960s, many spotted dolphins were killed because they were found living with tuna. Scientists responded by sending “observers” on tuna boats to keep track of the number of...
Barcroft Media
SNAPPED! Inside The Southern Right Whale Migration
HERMANUS, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 2016: This is the breathtaking moment 80 tonne Southern Right Whales engage with scuba divers during their yearly migration through South Africa. Diving tour operator Rainer Schimpf was fortunate enough to...
National Parks Service
Yellowstone National Park - Watersheds
Distance learning video about watersheds.