MinuteEarth
How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly
Combine agriculture and an increase in population density in sub-Saharan Africa and what do you get? Malaria! Young immunologists explore malaria's deadly rise to fame in a video. The narrator discusses its beginnings as a hitchhiking...
Bozeman Science
Logistic Growth
A video on logistic growth begins with a review of exponential growth before moving on to limiting factors. This naturally leads to a decrease in the growth rate and a discovery of carrying capacity.
Crash Course
Population Ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery
While 80 percent of people with West Nile Virus show no symptoms, in severe cases, it causes death by infecting the membranes around the spinal cord and brain. The video starts by making population ecology relevant. It includes density...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Introduction to Populations
What are the characteristics that define populations? What causes populations to grow or decline? In the following video you will learn how a population is a group of individuals of the same species living within a designated area at one...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Population Ecology
In the following video, Evan Seimann, PhD, defines key terms and concepts of ecology, basic characteristics of populations, population age structures and densities, and explains the dynamics of growth models within a population. [22:59]
PBS
Nova: World in the Balance: Human Population and Global Trends
A companion site to Nova's film that examines "human populations and environments." Find some fascinating facts in the interactive slide shows "Human Numbers Through Time," and "Global Trends Quiz."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Crash Course World History: Globalization Ii Good or Bad?
John Green asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity. While the new global economy has created a lot of wealth and lifted a lot of people out of poverty, it also has some effects that aren't so hot. [13:54]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Agriculture and Human Population
Thinking about how we get calories from the land limits human population densities. [12:59]
Other
Youtube: Population Distribution & Density
Where do most people live? What do nations do in an effort to understand their own population distribution? This short video introduces the concepts of population distribution and density. [1:04]