SciShow Kids
The Driest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids
In this SciShow Kids episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn about amazing places where it almost never rains.
TED Talks
TED: It's time to rethink the role of First Lady | Irina Karamanos Adrian
Irina Karamanos Adrian didn't plan on becoming Chile's First Lady — but she set out to transform the role all the same. She shares how she's fighting gender stereotypes and protecting democracy by shifting political power back to where...
TED Talks
TED: Meet methane, the invisible climate villain | Marcelo Mena
A landfill on fire doesn't only emit a horrid stench — it has devastating consequences for the environment, too. The culprit is methane, an often underestimated greenhouse gas produced in large part by food systems, organic waste and...
PBS
How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch. But the identity of the killer...
TED Talks
TED: Why rivals are working together to transform shipping | Bo Cerup-Simonsen
What would it take to make global supply chains cleaner and greener? Bo Cerup-Simonsen -- who's helping decarbonize the maritime industry as CEO of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping -- discusses why tenacious...
SciShow
This Melon Builds a Whole Ecosystem in the Desert
The nara melon is as juicy as any other, so how is it able to grow in the hyper-arid Namib desert?
SciShow
The Truth Behind the Disappearing Lakes
Around the world, there are lakes that disappear without warning. Then, suddenly without warning, they sometimes return! This vanishing and reappearing affect reveals some surprising connections. Learn all about it with Hank on this new...
SciShow
Invasive Plants & Restoration Ecology | SciShow Talk Show
Today Hank talks with Dr. Cara Nelson about invasive plants that use toxic chemicals and rapid reproduction to outcompete native plants, and Jessi brings some adorable invasive birds. Dr. Nelson is a professor of Restoration Ecology at...
PBS
Isabel Allende's Newest Historical Novel Tells Familiar Story Of Refugee Life
"A Long Petal of the Sea," a new historical novel by renowned writer Isabel Allende, draws upon events spanning from the Spanish civil war to the 1973 coup in her native Chile -- and with resonance for the experience of refugees today....
PBS
Families Of Colombia’s Disappeared Endure ‘Never-Ending Grief’ And A Wrenching Search
In Colombia, an estimated 83,000 people have been forcibly disappeared since 1958. But peace accords between the government and the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group, in 2016 mandated that finding the missing was a necessary...
Curated Video
One by one, the miners trapped for 69 days in a dungeon that could have been their tomb climbed into a rescue capsule and made a smooth ascent to the surface Wednesday, greeted by the embraces of loved ones, cheered by joyous Chileans and watched by a captivated world.
HEADLINE: Chilean miners emerge in problem-free rescue
CAPTION: One by one, the miners trapped for 69 days in a dungeon that could have been their tomb climbed into a rescue capsule and made a smooth ascent to the surface. (Oct. 13)
One...
Curated Video
Latest on 33 trapped miners as drill begins boring escape route
1. Wide of soldiers at mine site
2. Wide of family members of miners gathered around campfire
3. Mid of fire and families
4. Wide of police in front of mine entrance at the base of drilling machine Drill T130 (plan B)
5. Zoom out of...
Curated Video
CHILE: PINOCHET ARREST SPARKS PROTESTS AT SPANISH EMBASSY
Spanish/Nat
An official in Chile's capital Santiago has suspended parking permission and rubbish collection services for the Spanish embassy in protest at the arrest of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Cristian Labbe, mayor of the...
Curated Video
40 retirees on holiday caught in quake, tsunami; 5 bodies found
Curanipe, Pelluhue Municipality - 2 March 2010
1. Wide of residents standing around area where wave entered town
2. Wide of boat by road
3. Wide of wrecked bus in the trees
4. Front of bus, showing damage
5. Pan of bus
6. Badly...
Curated Video
Latin American women politicians meet ahead of Womens Day
1. Wide shot of forum in session
2. Various of indigenous women at forum
3. Tilt up of women entrepreneurs
4. Audience
5. Wide of forum
6. Panellists
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Virginia Borra, Peruvian Minister for Women and Social...
Curated Video
SYND 14-6-74 WEST GERMANY BEATS CHILE 1:0 IN WORLD CUP FOOTBALL MATCH IN WEST BERLIN
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West Germany beats Chile 1:0 in world cup football match in West Berlin.
1. gv Chile (left to right) kick off
2. gv play in progress, Chile in possession
3. gv crowd ...
Curated Video
BRAZIL: RIO: CIMEIRA SUMMIT: PINOCHET
Spanish/Nat
Chilean President Eduardo Frei has insisted the Chilean government will use all political
and legal means to continue to press for the release of former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
His comments came after a private meeting...
Curated Video
3 figures of Latin American judicial system honoured for their work
1. Wide of symposium
2. Award recipients (from left) Argentinian appellate judge, Peruvian attorney, Monica Feria, and Chilean Judge, Carlos Cerda, seated
3. Cerda receiving Gruber International Justice award
4. Feria receiving Gruber...
Curated Video
CHILE: AUGUSTO PINOCHET COURT RULING
Spanish/Nat
Chile's Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the homicide and kidnapping indictment against former dictator Augusto Pinochet, saying his case was not properly handled.
The five-judge panel voted 4-1 in favour of Pinochet,...
SciShow
The Most Massive Dinosaur, and Are Earthquakes Contagious?
SciShow News introduces you to the most massive land animal ever to walk the earth (pretty much) and tells you what’s going on with all of these earthquakes lately.
TED Talks
Peter Haas: When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse
What did the world learn from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010? That shoddy buildings and bad planning can make a terrible situation even worse. "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas. "It was...
SciShow
Dark Energy Camera
Hank brings us news of the most sensitive digital camera in the universe, poised to help astronomers explain the mystery of why the universe is speeding up instead of slowing down as Einstein's theory of General Relativity would predict.
SciShow
The Boomerang Nebula: The Coolest Place in Outer Space
The Boomerang Nebula is colder than space! And it's not really shaped like a boomerang!
TED Talks
Wendy Freedman: This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman headed the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope,...