EarthEcho International
STEMExplore: Water Quality Specialist
Aaron Parker is a water quality specialist for the Makah Fisheries Environmental Division. As a member of the Makah Tribe, he conducts nearshore and instream water sampling, monitors for harmful algal blooms, and works with other...
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Floating Classroom: Dissolved Oxygen
These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this...
NPR
Preventing Flooding by Letting Rivers Flow Naturally
Beginning 200 years ago, many of Vermont’s rivers were straightened for agriculture, logging and to power turbines. Today one of three river miles in Vermont has been straightened, causing the waters to run deeper and faster – and erode...
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park - Floating Classroom: Introduction
These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Gulf Coast Farmers Achieve Greater Environmental Benefits
A USDA initiative along Florida's Gulf Coast is helping farmers there make improvements in their operations to help prevent runoff and erosion from ultimately reaching the Gulf.
Mediacorp
The Dangers of Frequent Plankton Blooms
This video discusses the potential water crisis in Singapore due to climate change. It explores the various ways Singapore obtains its water and how climate change can disrupt these sources. The focus is on the impact of plankton blooms...
NASA
COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard Tutorial
COVID-19 led to changes in human activities around the globe. Some bodies of water have run clearer, emissions of pollutants have temporarily declined, and transportation and shipment of goods have decreased. We can see some of these...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Gulf Coast Farmers Increase Environmental Improvements
A USDA initiative along the Gulf of Mexico is helping farmers there improve water quality, reduce soil erosion and enhance wildlife habitat on their agricultural land. Farmers carry out conservation practices that prevent nutrients and...
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...
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...
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...
Food Farmer Earth
A 4th Generation Oyster Fisherman
In this episode, Bill Taylor, a fourth generation oyster farmer and President of Taylor Shellfish Farms, shares his family's century-old connection to the shellfish industry his great-grandfather helped develop, and to the South Puget...
US Department of Agriculture
Helping Farmers Prevent Runoff And Erosion
An innovative USDA initiative along the Gulf of Mexico is helping farmers in Mississippi's coastal counties prevent sediment and nutrients from washing into nearby waterways that drain into the Gulf.
EarthEcho International
How to Measure the pH of Water: Importance and Impacts
This video explains the importance of measuring the pH of water and how it can affect the plants and animals living in it. The hosts demonstrate two methods of measuring pH and show the impact of pollution on the water's acidity.
EarthEcho International
Collecting and Identifying Benthic Macro-invertebrates for Water Quality Assessment
In this video, Philippe Cousteau joins students from Petersburg Elementary to learn how to collect and identify benthic macro-invertebrates in a stream. They use a kick net to collect the organisms and a dichotomous key to identify them....
Science360
Baltimore's Urban Streams
Baltimore, Maryland is a major city situated on the Chesapeake Bay- a sprawling 64,000 square mile watershed. Currently, the Chesapeake is facing an environmental crisis due to pollutants. Scientist Claire Welty of the University of...
Curated Video
Belgium withdraws from mixed relay triathlon after athlete who swam in Seine River falls ill
Claire Michel, who competed in the women's triathlon Wednesday, “is unfortunately ill and will have to withdraw from the competition,” the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee said in a statement. (Scripps News)
Press Association
Taoiseach discusses plans for budget, housing and cost-of-living support with media
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar press conference as he meets ministers to discuss plans to support people with the cost of living crisis, the budget and housing.
Curated Video
SYND 12 3 68 DEATHS AND FAMINE DUE TO POLLUTED GANGES WATER
Partly due to polluted Ganges water, six people die and hundreds of others face Famine in Monghyr, bihar state
1. ws river Ganges and steamer, pan over widewater
2. ms water tower
3. ms funeral pyre on bank
4. mcu corpse ready to be...
Curated Video
SYND 3-12-73 POLLUTION IN THE RIVER RHINE
Pollution in the river Rhine
1) high angle pan over river Rhine, from high ground
2) various shots, cargo barges along river
3) ms Factory gates, pan to smoking chimneys
4) various shots, factories on river side, pan to river
5) cu...
Curated Video
SYND 1/3/70 OIL POLLUTES FLORIDA RIVER
St John's River, Jacksonville, Florida as thousands of gallons of oil pollute river following collision between barge and frieghter
1 mcu stonework covered in oil pan across St John's River
2 ms barge with hole in side
3 cu hole in...
Curated Video
Aftermath of bomb attack on oil pipeline, causing leak into Tigris
1. Wide of Tigress river, large plumes of black smoke in the sky
2. Wide of fire burning on smokey landscape , black smoke rising from flames
3. Mid of black plumes of smoke billowing in sky
4. Various of flames
5. Flames creeping...
Curated Video
SYND 30 6 82 PROTEST ABOUT POLLUTION OF RIVER PAMPLONA
Protests over pollution of the Pamplona River, in Spain.
1. pan across old bridge over Pamplona river
2. cu dead, rotting fish washed up, pull back to ms dead fish and plastic bottle at water's edge
3. cu dead fish floating in water
4....
Curated Video
US coast guard aerials of quake-hit capital
1. Various of aerial shots assessing damage on the ground
2. Aerial of people lining the streets
3. Various of aerials of damaged homes
4. Aerial of Port-au-Prince''s airport runway
US Coast Guard helicopter crews on Wednesday were...