NASA
NASA | SMAP Radiometer versus Radio Frequency Interference
The microwave radiometer on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite was designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Along with the microwave radar, data from the radiometer will be used to calculate the water...
The Wall Street Journal
New Bedfellows
Rather than battle, some food companies are teaming up with former environmental adversaries to achieve sustainability goals. Here's how that's working out.
NASA
High Tide Flooding
Sea level rise is often spoken of in future terms, including projections for impacts we’re likely to see by the end of the century. But in many communities in the U.S., sea level rise is already a factor in people’s lives in the form of...
NASA
Life of the Monsoon
The monsoon is a seasonal rain and wind pattern that occurs over South Asia (among other places). Through NASA satellites and models we can see the monsoon patterns like never before. Monsoon rains provide important reservoirs of water...
Curated Video
B1 English Listening Practice - Natural Disasters
This video serves as English listening comprehension practice for intermediate-level students. In this video, a native English speaker talks in a natural way about the topic of natural disasters. The subtitles are included at the bottom...
NASA
Global Maps of Dryness Help Prepare for Water Use Around Globe
Using measurements from two satellite missions assimilated into a computer model, researchers have created global maps of terrestrial water around the planet. In addition, they can forecast water availability in the United States up to...
Curated Video
Advanced Speaking: Environment Vocabulary in English
Improve your advanced speaking with environment vocabulary in English. Useful for the IELTS speaking exam.
NASA
NASA | Our Wet Wide World
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch a...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Nevada
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.
The March of Time
1948: REPUBLIC OF CHINA: VS Chinese male workers digging drainage ditch. AGRICULTURE: ISLAND FARMERS: WS Small pump hut building w/ water flowing, VS Men inside hut, water flowing for irrigation, HA WS River w/ distant mountains in hazy BG.
MOT 1948: REPUBLIC OF CHINA: VS Chinese male workers digging drainage ditch. AGRICULTURE: ISLAND FARMERS: WS Small pump hut building w/ water flowing, VS Men inside hut, water flowing for irrigation, HA WS River w/ distant mountains in...
NASA
NASA Looks at the North American Monsoon
North America experiences a yearly monsoon weather system in late summer as moisture comes up from the west coast of Mexico and enters the southwestern U.S. The seasonal weather pattern brings both much of the region's precipitation but...
NASA
NASA | OLYMPEX Scientists in the Field: Joe Zagrodnik
Joe Zagrodnik is a student at the University of Washington who is working with NASA scientists to measure the properties of rain and snow in the Olympic National Park. From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists...
NASA
Flying Over Hurricanes For New NASA Mission
NASA scientists are investigating key questions about hurricanes in a new mission from the skies. This August, the East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes, or EPOCH, mission will fly over East Pacific storms to better...
NASA
NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm made landfall as it was meandering slowly southeast at...
NASA
NASA Tracks the Future of Asia's Glaciers
Asia's high mountains are a crucial freshwater source to one-seventh of the world's population. Snow and glaciers in these mountains contain the largest volume of freshwater outside of Earth's polar ice sheets, leading hydrologists to...
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...
NASA
NASA | Mississippi Flooding 2011
Heavy spring rains and snowmelt led to devastating floods along the Mississippi River in May 2011. Landsat 5 flew over the Mississippi River on May 10, 2011, giving a distinct view of the extraordinary extent of the flooding. This was...
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Destruction and Safety Measures
It explains destruction caused by cyclones and effective safety measures.
Mazz Media
Bailey's Big Back Yard: Powerful Weather
Bailey learns the way in which weather affects people all over the world. Through his adventure, he comes to understand how weather affects the clothes we wear, our homes as well as the animals and land all around us.
Next Animation Studio
Record floods spark concerns about China’s Three Gorges Dam: report
Experts increasingly question whether the Three Gorges Dam can do the job it was designed for.
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Heights Can Floods Reach?
This video is answering the question of how does Japan deal with floods.
Mazz Media
Flood
This live-action video program is about floods. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Causes Floods?
This video is answering the question of what causes floods.