TED Talks
TED: The human cost of coal mining in China | Xiaojun "Tom" Wang
Xiaojun "Tom" Wang grew up in the Chinese province of Shanxi, the world's largest coal producer. Each year, more than a billion tons of coal are dug out of Shanxi's mountains, and the impacts are devastating — from massive landslides to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What really killed the dinosaurs? (It wasn’t just the asteroid) | Sean P. S. Gulick
Sixty-six million years ago, near what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula, a juvenile sauropod feasted on horsetail plants on a riverbank. Earth was a tropical planet. Behemoth and tiny dinosaurs alike soared its skies and roamed its lands...
SciShow
Megatsunamis Worlds Biggest Wave
Megatsunamis are not only much larger than your average tsunami, they also form under different conditions. Good news: they're extremely rare. Bad news: they might not be for long.
Curated Video
Understanding and Predicting Landslides: Advances in Research and Techniques
This video highlights the efforts of researchers from Durham University's International Landslide Centre in understanding and predicting landslides. Through analyzing soil samples and using techniques like pressure shear measurement and...
Curated Video
Tsunami
Tsunamis are huge volumes of moving water that become monstrous waves when they hit the coast. What causes them and how do they grow to be so dangerous? Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. Tsunamis are massive volumes of moving...
Wonderscape
The Green Guardians: Trees and the Fight Against Deforestation
Explore the critical role trees play in our environment, from providing essential resources like food, shelter, and oxygen to combating climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide. Learn about the challenges of deforestation and how it...
Curated Video
Navigating Nature: Innovative Solutions for Flood and Landslide Risks
Explore the evolution of flood and landslide management in France, from the historic 1910 Paris flood to modern preventative measures. Discover how innovative engineering, like amphibious buildings and protective nets, safeguards...
Curated Video
Understanding Landslides: Causes and Impact
Landslides are natural disasters where rocks, dirt, and debris slide down a slope, sometimes resulting in minor disturbances and other times in massive avalanches like the one in Japan. They are typically triggered by factors such as...
Professor Dave Explains
Weathering Environments Part 1: Fluvial Processes
We now know about physical and chemical weathering, so now it's time to learn about the different weathering environments. These are fluvial, aeolian, and glacial. Let's start with fluvial, which means environments dominated by flowing...
Curated Video
Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Floods
This video provides an overview of floods, including their causes and different types. It also highlights the potential impacts of prolonged flooding, such as damage to infrastructure and increased risk of waterborne diseases. The video...
Zach Star
Earth and Environmental Science - Careers, Concentrations, and Courses (Part 2)
This video will focus on the two most common concentrations, labs you can expect to see in this major, and possible career paths you can take. Unlike labs for chemistry, biology, or physics much of the labs that you will perform in this...
Next Animation Studio
Geologists link Taiwan’s earthquakes to tropical storms: study
Typhoons that routinely hit Taiwan may increase or exacerbate earthquakes across the island, according to a new study.
Science360
Researchers develop exoskeleton device for walking efficiency-Check it out!
Science Now 33-In this week’s episode we learn about an app to detect depression, walking efficiency, how babies learn from surprise and finally we explore how high-tech tools are helping researcher better understand how granular...
Next Animation Studio
Landslides on Saturn's moon, Iapetus, raise interest
Scientists are interested in Iapetus, Saturn's third largest moon, because of its massive landslides, long-runout landslides that can travel horizontally as much as 30 times their vertical falling distance. On Earth, landslides typically...
Makematic
Ask Deeper Questions
Asking questions helps turn curiosity into inquiry! In this activity, children will learn more about different types/ levels of questions by creating an Inquiry Ladder and challenging themselves to think about bigger, essential questions.
NASA
Monsoons: Wet, Dry, Repeat...
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...
NASA
NASA | A Week in the Life of Rain
Rain, snow, hail, ice, and every slushy mix in between make up the precipitation that touches everyone on our planet. But not all places rain equally. Precipitation falls differently in different parts of the world, as you see in NASA's...
NASA
NASA | Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space
Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a...
NASA
New NASA Model Finds Landslide Threats in Near Real-Time During Heavy Rains
For the first time, scientists can look at landslide threats anywhere around the world in near real-time, thanks to satellite data and a new model developed by NASA. The model, developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...
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 | 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...
Science360
Researchers study walking efficiency! NSF Science Now 33.
In this episode, we learn about: an app designed to detect depression, walking efficiency and how babies learn from being surprised. We also explore how high-tech tools are helping researchers better understand how granular materials...
Science360
When Nature Strikes - Landslides
Landslides occur when material like debris, rock, and soil become dislodged from the earth and slide downward at speeds that can approach 100 miles per hour. David Montgomery at the University of Washington studies past and present...