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The Fiordlands of New Zealand! | SciShow Kids
New ReviewSqueaks is back from his trip around the world! In this episode, he and Jessi discuss the second stop on his trip: Fiordlands National Park (aka Te Rua-o-te-moko) in New Zealand (aka Aotearoa)
SciShow Kids
Water's Amazing Journey | SciShow Kids
New ReviewWater makes an amazing journey around the world called the water cycle. Squeaks and his friends put on a play to learn all about it!
Bozeman Science
Evaluating Questions
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to ask questions in a mini-lesson on evaluating questions. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides.
PBS
Can AI help solve India’s food and water insecurity?
New ReviewOne of the largest challenges facing India: how to sustain food production for 1.4 billion people amid deteriorating soil quality, diminishing water supplies and climate change. For some, including hundreds of artificial intelligence...
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How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy
New ReviewIt may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice cream factory and the operations next...
TED Talks
The science of making fruits and veggies last longer | Jenny Du
New ReviewIt's a hard nut to crack: in order to prevent food waste, we rely on plastic packaging and refrigeration, which harm the environment. What if we could turn to nature to address these challenges? Engineer and chemist Jenny Du shares how a...
TED Talks
The world's first "nature superpower" | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
New ReviewOver the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all part of a multi-billion-dollar global environmental crime economy. Civic entrepreneur...
TED Talks
An unexpected plan for peace in the Middle East | Nada Majdalani
New ReviewThe Middle East is a climate hotspot, with many parts of the region set to experience an increase in temperature by five to eight degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Palestinian peace activist Nada Majdalani discusses how the...
TED Talks
The miraculous device that saved my farm — and changed my life | Josephine Waweru
New ReviewExhausted from carrying water up a hill to keep her small farm in Kenya thriving, Josephine Waweru received an unexpected call that offered a nearly unbelievable solution. She shares how one simple device allowed her crops (and her...
PBS
That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.
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The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
What graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and suffocating before eventually clearing up again. They unlock extinctions and recoveries that scientists didn't see....
PBS
Why Only Earth Has Fire
To get fire, which exists only on Earth, it took billions of years of photosynthesis – which means fire can’t exist without life. And fire and life have been shaping each other ever since.
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When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it? And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the world’s mightiest rivers between...
Be Smart
The Weird Science That Lets Insects Fly in the Rain
Imagine the scale of raindrops if you were the size of a small bird. Or mosquito. Flying through a drizzle should be deadly! Like flying through falling cars and boulders. And yet it’s not, because nature has given them a...
SciShow
The Secret To Saving The Oceans Is In… Clams?
There's a complex, mysterious current running throughout the Atlantic Ocean, and it's in trouble. But to help save it, researchers need to understand it, and finding ways to study it has been a challenge. But it turns out that the secret...
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Turkey’s Cotton Palace Built Itself
Pamukkale, Turkey's Cotton Palace, is home to some of the most beautiful hot springs in the world. Located in the Denizli Basin, it's not only unique, but can tell us a surprising amount about the history of the site. Hosted by: Stefan...
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Why Some Trees in SciShow's Hometown Are Full of Poop
How would you deal with sewage waste pollution? Here in Missoula, the answer was.... poplar trees. Here's the weird reason that these poplar trees are some of nature's best cleaners, and why our hometown heroes might not be so awesome...
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These Lakes Shouldn't Be Three Different Colors
On top of a volcano in Indonesia, there are three lakes. But these three neighbors couldn't be more different, since each of them is a different vivid hue. Let's talk about the weird chemistry atop Keli Mutu Volcano and the three...
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Why the Great Salt Lake is Two Completely Different Colors
Today, the Great Salt Lake of Utah has multiples of the ocean's salt concentration. But it didn't used to be so salty. In fact, it used to be Lake Bonneville. And we know its story thanks to microscopic diatoms and Dr. Ruth Patrick....
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Medicine Cabinets Shouldn't Exist
The conditions in many medicine cabinets turn out to be detrimental for medicines—some worse than others. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
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The Ocean Has Weather Too And It's Weird
Weather may be something you associate with life on land, but the ocean has its own version of fronts and storms. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her)
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We're About to Visit the Second Best Place for Life
This October, the launch window opens for NASA's Europa Clipper mission. When it arrives in the Jovian system, this spacecraft will probe the icy moon...and its ocean buried kilometers beneath the surface...for the ingredients of life as...
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We Solved The Mystery Of The Pyramids
The Pyramids of Giza have fascinated and confused us for hundreds of years, and while we know a lot about who built them and how they were made, one question that has remained is why they are where they are. And the answer to that...
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Should We Build A Geothermal Power Plant In Yellowstone?
Yellowstone National Park is one of the most famous tourist destinations and nature reserves in the world. And it's also the perfect place for.... geothermal power plants? Let's talk about the weird reason why NASA is all for building a...