Getty Images
Migrant workers: mother and sons
Migrant woman sewing as her children sleep beside her / mother brushes son's forehead to stop a vegetable picking dream. Migrant workers: mother and sons on April 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)
Getty Images
Soil erosion destroys crops and forestry after Dust Bowl
Sun beating down on soil eroded land / dry crops and muddy water / barren hilltops. Soil erosion destroys crops and forestry after Dust Bowl on April 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)
Curated Video
VIETNAM: DEADLY LEGACY LEFT BEHIND IN SOIL AFTER VIETNAM WAR
English/Nat
Concern is growing in Vietnam that two deadly legacies from the war have combined to create an environmental disaster with no easy solution in sight.
An American researcher has discovered that the soil around buried mines and...
New Mexico State University
Runoff and Infiltration
Soil infiltration has less to do with the soil than what is covering the soil. A quick video presentation demonstrates how different soil samples use water. The instructor takes note of both the infiltration demonstrated by each sample...
New Mexico State University
Runoff and Infiltration: Water Infiltration
A sponge and soil have a lot in common. Using a sponge to model a soil sample, a video presentation demonstrates soil terminology. The instructor shows how water moves through soil to model infiltration and percolation.
New Mexico State University
Runoff and Infiltration: Ground Cover
What do water and wind do to open fields? An interesting video lesson demonstrates how ground cover protects the loss of soil from rain and wind. It shows four soil samples with varying degrees of ground cover and how people collect the...
PBS
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)
Flooding for an unimaginable number of years in unimaginable depths led to severe changes to create the landscapes people know today. The episode in a larger PBS Eon series presents evidence scientists use to explain the existence of...
MinuteEarth
How To (Literally) Save Earth
Soil naturally erodes and produces new soil at the same rate when left to nature, yet farming erodes the soil 50 times faster than it forms. The video discusses soil, the ways humans damage it through their actions, and encourages many...
Crash Course Kids
Weathering and Erosion
How does water help shape Earth's landforms? This is the focus of a video that describes how mechanical weathering and chemical weathering help shape Earth's geologic features.
Kansas State
Kansas State University & Usda: Wind Erosion Video
This is a website that has four video clips that demonstrate what wind erosion can do to soil.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Flood: Farming and Erosion
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists investigate how farming along the Mississippi River impacts floods and what can be done about it.
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 2
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [8:55]
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 1
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [7:20]
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 4 Part 1
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [13:19]
Museum of Science
Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 1
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [8:35]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Marsh Migration
Dr. Alex Kolker shows high school students how a salt marsh can actually migrate across the landscape. He uses fresh core samples taken by students to demonstrate his points. [4:04]
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Vimeo: Let"s Talk About Soil English
This animated film tells the reality of soil resources around the world, covering the issues of degradation, urbanization, land grabbing and overexploitation; the film offers options to make the way we manage our soils more sustainable.