Next Animation Studio
Gulf Stream nearing ‘Day After Tomorrow’ tipping point
Scientists say the increased melting of arctic freshwater is causing an imbalance in the salinity of seawater, and this could lead to plummeting temperatures in the northern hemisphere.
Next Animation Studio
Vast freshwater reserves found in seabed
Researchers in the University of Flinders in Australia have found vast reserves of low-salt water beneath the seabed. Rivers and rain water over the past hundreds of thousands of years infiltrated the ground to form aquifers. Even as sea...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Dreaming of the Everglades
A film that describes how the Greater Everglades Ecosystem historically functioned, how humans have re-engineered the system, and how Everglades restoration will improve the overall health and resilience of this special place.
Mediacorp
Water Conservation in Textile Mills
This video highlights the water-intensive nature of textile mills globally, particularly in Bangladesh. It discusses the significant amount of water consumed by these mills and the resulting pollution of the Ganges river. It also...
TMW Media
Drinking Fresh Water From A Salty Ocean: Learn about the key points of this project
How will this project help countries that are interested in it?
Drinking Fresh Water From A Salty Ocean, Part 4
NASA
Landsat Helps Warn of Algae in Lakes, Rivers
From space, satellites such as the NASA and USGS Landsat 8 can help scientists identify where an algal bloom has formed in lakes or rivers. It’s a complicated data analysis process, but one that researchers are automating so resource...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Type Of Water Do Different Fish Live In?
This video is answering the question of what type of water do different fish live in.
Mediacorp
Saving Indonesia's Citarum River: Challenges and Solutions in Protecting Freshwater Resources
This video discusses the global water crisis and the efforts being made to protect the Citarum River in Indonesia from industrial pollution. It highlights the ambitious goal set by President Joko Widodo to make the river safe for...
Weatherthings
Water Smart: Water on Earth - Lakes
Water on Earth focuses on water as most kids would think about it. We start with water in obvious locations such as oceans, lakes, and rivers. We quickly learn that water can change phase to remain a solid in glaciers. Many kids may be...
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...
NASA
A Drier Future Sets the Stage for More Wildfires
Droughts can create ideal conditions for wildfires. Dry trees and vegetation provide fuel. Low soil and air moisture make it easier for fires to spread quickly. In these conditions, a spark from lightning, electrical failures, human...
NASA
NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space
When we look into the vastness of space, our home planet stands out in many ways. One of the most crucial is the presence of abundant, accessible freshwater -- as a liquid, solid and gas. Water helps make our planet habitable. The first...
NASA
NASA | GPM's Journey to Japan
Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the GPM spacecraft travelled roughly 7,300 miles (11,750 kilometers) to its launch site at Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan, where it is scheduled for...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Cape Sable Dams Project
Video about Everglades restoration project in Cape Sable funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (10 min. with closed-captions).
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
Somewhere around 470 million years ago, something happened that shouldn’t have been particularly striking. An algae found its way onto land. This algae turned the lands of this earth green, altered the chemistry of our atmosphere, and...
NASA
NASA | Show Me the Water
Freshwater seems abundant, but when accounting for all the water on Earth, it's in limited supply. Just three percent of the water on our planet is freshwater. A majority of this water, about two percent of the world total, is contained...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Our Tardigrades Got Stuck in a German Post Office
Tardigrades have been through a lot. They’ve been sent to the moon. They’ve had the moisture sapped out of them. At times, they’ve been in extreme heat. And at other times, they’ve had to contend with extreme cold. Well, today, we’ve got...
NASA
NASA Helps Warn of Harmful Algal Blooms
With limited resources to dedicate to monitoring for harmful algal blooms, water managers are looking to new technologies from NASA and its partners to detect and monitor potential hazards in lakes and reservoirs. Music: Picking Locks by...
NASA
Using NASA Data to Monitor Drought and Food Insecurity
NASA's satellite imagery and model forecasts play an important role in monitoring the performance of crops worldwide and preparing for food shortages. NASA's view from space helps government agencies forecast food insecurity, like during...
NASA
NASA | Freshwater Losses In The Middle East
The visualization shows variations in total water storage from normal, in millimeters, in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, from January 2003 through...
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 | WATER FALLS Trailer
Song: "Pour on Me" Bryan Elijah Smith Used by Permission The Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) is a massive, multinational mission utilizing a fleet of spacecraft, sophisticated ground based data processing systems, and...
Australian Children's Television Foundation
Bushwhacked! - Series 1 - Episode 4 (Cassowary)
Brandon challenges Kayne to track down an elusive cassowary, one of Australia’s rarest birds.
Curated Video
Do Fish Get Thirsty and Do They Need to Drink Water?
Whether fish get thirsty depends on the fish you look at. Fish that live in freshwater have different physiology to deal with their environment than fish in salty seawater. These physiological differences dictate whether fish need to...