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Labour’s Manifesto Quickly Summarised (2019 Election) - TLDR News
On Thursday the Labour party announced their new manifesto, full of their promises to the electorate. We read all of this over 100-page document and compressed it into less than 10 minutes to make understanding their policies easier!
Visual Learning Systems
Forests: Temperate Deciduous Forest
Using vivid footage filmed on location around North America, this video explores the characteristics, locations, and inhabitants of the three main types of forests - deciduous forests, coniferous forests, and rainforests. Additional...
Curated Video
Understanding the Greenhouse Effect and Human Impact on Climate Change
The video discusses the greenhouse effect and how it works in the Earth's atmosphere. It explains how greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb long-wavelength infrared and re-emit it, increasing the temperature of the...
Curated Video
Dust Storms: Causes, Effects, and Precautions
This video provides an overview of dust storms, explaining their causes, effects, and hazards. It emphasizes the importance of taking cover quickly during a dust storm and highlights the damage they can cause to structures, equipment,...
The Business Professor
Theories of Economic Strength of Nations
Theories of Economic Strength of Nations
Sustainable Business Consulting
The CDP Disclosure Framework
Provides detailed descriptions of the CDP Reporting Framework
Next Animation Studio
Amazon goes from ‘carbon sink’ to carbon creator
The Amazon used to be praised as our planet’s lungs, absorbing a lot of Earth’s carbon dioxide, but things are going very wrong in the world’s last great wilderness.
Science360
Changes in Greenland landscape affect carbon balance sheet - Science Nation
Warming temperatures in the Arctic are changing the tundra from a landscape dominated by grasses to one increasingly dominated by woody shrubs. In addition to affecting the habitat of local wildlife such as caribou and musk oxen, these...
Ancient Lights Media
Italy
This clip looks at the physical features, history, climate and culture of Italy
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Extreme Heat
Our bodies react differently to extreme heat depending on how much humidity is in the air. Heat index is a measure of how hot it feels outside, taking into account both air temperature and relative humidity. As the humidity rises, the...
Next Animation Studio
Record heat in Australia: Dome of heat explained
Australia is experiencing record summer temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius because of a phenomenon known as a 'dome of heat'.
Kids Learning Videos
Types of Weather | Learning about Weather for Children
Types of Weather | Learning about Weather for Children Children and kids are very interested in the many types of weather. They can learn about all kinds of weather with this fun video.
PBS
Could climate change make you allergic to meat?
Thanks to climate change, disease carrying critters are expanding their ranges, and their seasons are getting longer -- meaning they have more space and more time to take a bite out of you or me.
NASA
On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 7: Storm Warning
Get swept away as we fly into massive hurricanes, and hear how the rumblings of climate change will cause clouds to gather into ever more powerful storms.
Next Animation Studio
Explainer: Simultaneous heat waves in Arctic and Antarctic
Earth's poles have been experiencing major heat waves simultaneously, alarming climate scientists.
Next Animation Studio
World’s largest carbon-sucking machine turned on
The world’s largest carbon capture plant has opened in Iceland and its manufacturers say it will capture 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per year.
Science360
Climate Change Clues from Ancient Volcano
South Dakota State University chemistry professor Jihong Cole-Dai and colleagues have discovered evidence of a previously undocumented volcano whose eruption may have contributed to the climate change in the early 1800s. Their ice core...
US Department of Agriculture
Climate Change And Soybean Research
USDA researchers are studying which soybean varieties react the best to a changing climate.
Food Farmer Earth
Fred Kirschenmann - The Future of Agriculture
Part 2 - As Fred Kirschenmann points out, extreme weather patterns will have a destabilizing impact on agriculture. Climate Change and Ecological Degradation threatens the future of agriculture unless we change our farming practices....
TLDR News
Harris vs Pence: Who Won the Vice Presidential Debate (and What About that Fly?!) - TLDR News
Last night Vice President Mike Pence took on Kamala Harris (& a fly) in the Vice Presidential Debate. The debate, which featured significantly less shouting and interrupting than last week's, covered eight important topics from the...
Science360
Plum Island Estuary: Studying how marshes respond to sea-level rise
At the Plum Island Sound estuary in northeastern Massachusetts, the marsh floods like clockwork. At high tide, you can pass over the mudflats into the grass in a boat. At low tide, the ocean waters recede, leaving behind fresh deposits...
Science360
Plum Island Estuary Studying how marshes respond to sea-level rise
At the Plum Island Sound estuary in northeastern Massachusetts, the marsh floods like clockwork. At high tide, you can pass over the mudflats into the grass in a boat. At low tide, the ocean waters recede, leaving behind fresh deposits...
Independent Producers
Corals and Climate Change
What makes up a coral? This audio story takes you to an underwater observatory where a scientist is studying coral reefs. The scientist has found that CO2 in the ocean is making the ocean warmer and dissolving the coral reef system. But...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ross McKitrick - Breaking the Climate Change Stalemate
Climate change policy is caught in a stalemate between those who fear the environmental consequences of not doing enough and those who fear the economic consequences of overreacting. But controversy over the extent and sources of climate...