Next Animation Studio
Doomsday seed bank welcomes new addition
Some 20,000 new seed samples were added to the collection held by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway late last month. The new additions included Japanese barley, Brazilian beans, wild potatoes and wild sweet potatoes from Peru, and...
Curated Video
The Devastating Effects of Deforestation and Peat Bog Destruction on Habitats
The video is a lecture presentation discussing the topic of destruction of habitats, specifically focusing on deforestation and peat bog destruction. The speaker explains the various reasons behind deforestation, including the need for...
Science360
Anthropologist Steve Lansing - ScienceLives
Lansing is director of the Complexity Institute at Nanyang Technological University. He also is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona and senior fellow at theStockholm Resilience...
Brains On
Native Americans and the Wolf
Many Native American tribes use origin stories, or stories about creation, to explain how life came to exist and to highlight the relationship between nature and humankind. In this story, a member of the Ojibwe tribe shares an origin...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
EB Presents: Biodiversity Infographic Explainer
Overview of how scientists measure biodiversity.
Financial Times
Metagenomics: mapping the mysteries of soil
A teaspoon of agricultural soil contains more than a billion living organisms. This biodiversity plays a key role in its ability to support plant life, including crops, but identifying and counting soil microbes is incredibly difficult....
FuseSchool
Why Does Biodiversity Matter To Me?
Biodiversity is the variety of life. It can be studied on many levels, from looking at all of the 8.7 million species on our planet to a specific ecosystem like a patch of woodland. In this video we are going to look at the importance of...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - What is biodiversity
Biodiversity is a key concept in ecology and has importance on both local and global scales. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life, or put more simply, the number of different individuals and lifeforms in an area. Scientists...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Biodiversity
This video provides an overview of biodiversity, focusing on the three layers or types of diversity: genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. The video also highlights the significance of species diversity in...
Curated Video
The Importance of Biodiversity in Ecosystems
This video is a lecture presentation on biodiversity. The video explains the importance of maintaining high levels of biodiversity and how human activities are reducing it. The presenter uses examples to illustrate how changes in one...
Curated Video
Biodiversity
In this live-action program viewers will learn that biodiversity refers to the variety and variability of all living organisms and the different ecological complexes in which they exist. Students will come to understand that the word...
Earth Rangers
Biodiversity
The world is filled with many living things of all shapes and sizes. From plants and animals to fungi and bacteria, every living thing is important and plays a role on our Earth. The variety of living things in a habitat is known as...
msvgo
Biodiversity Conservation
It presents arguments for conservation of biodiversity including narrowly utilitarian, broadly utilitarian and ethical reasons. It also describes in-situ and ex-situ conservations methods.
Nature League
Biodiversity and Extinction Vulnerability - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the impact of biodiversity on extinction vulnerability in terms of trophic redundancy. Article citation: Dirk Sanders, Elisa...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Insights: The Threat of Biodiversity Loss
Learn more about the issue of biodiversity loss in this interview with Dr. Enrique Salmón.
Science360
Conserving biodiversity in Central Africa
The Congo basin is an unruly ribbon of tropical forest, over a million square miles spanning six countries in Central Africa. It is the second-largest contiguous tropical forest in the world. The basin is home to the classics of African...
Nature League
Does Life on Earth Have a Voice? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explores the four main categories of communication for life on Earth, and discusses the realities of interspecies communication. Guest starring: Adrian Adams as the bit partner, Sean Kirkpatrick as...
Nature League
Nature + Engineering
On this special edition of Nature League, Brit explores nature in the context of engineering by describing and displaying some examples of high tech and everyday biomimicry.
Nature League
Increasing Night Life of Mammals - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the increasing nocturnality of mammals around the globe. Article citation: Gaynor, K.M., Hojnowski, C.E., Carter, N.H., and...
Nature League
Adaptations at Animal Wonders - Field Trip
In this Nature League Field Trip, Brit joins Jessi Knudsen Castaneda at Animal Wonders Montana to discuss defensive adaptations across the animal kingdom.
Animal Wonders is an organization dedicated to adopting displaced wildlife and...
Nature League
What is Biodiversity? - Lesson Plan
In this Nature League Lesson Plan, Brit explains the levels, dimensions, and values associated with biodiversity.
Visual Learning Systems
Review of Biodiversity
This video reviews concepts covered in the Biodiversity series. The speaker discusses how places can be described in terms of biodiversity. The video also highlights the variation of biodiversity from place to place and the importance of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Importance of Biodiversity
The video is a short educational piece that explains the importance of biodiversity and its impact on the health of the planet. The video also highlights some of the causes of species extinction, such as habitat destruction and...
Visual Learning Systems
Biodiversity on Earth
The video explores the concept of biodiversity and how it differs between different types of environments. It starts by showcasing a tropical rainforest, then contrasts this with the tundra, a cold and dry environment with much lower...