Wonderscape
Understanding Water Scarcity: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions
Delve into the concept of water scarcity, exploring both its physical and economic dimensions, its global impacts, and the daily struggles faced by communities affected by water shortages. Discover how factors like climate change,...
Curated Video
Opportunities of Desalination to Ensure Water Supply
The Sau (SU) water reservoir in Barcelona, Spain, is one of the region's largest sources of water at 90 percent capacity. But only a year earlier this image was very different. Spanish officials are working on new ideas to ensure that...
Healthcare Triage
The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change
Climate change is driven by humans and will affect us all. But it’s not driven by everyone equally, and it doesn’t affect everyone equally. In the last 250 years, 77% of global emissions were emitted by Europe, North America, Australia,...
Healthcare Triage
Climate Change and Safe Drinking Water
In our last climate episode we took a look at how climate change affects the spread of infectious disease. Unfortunately, that isn’t the end of our discussion of disease on a warming planet. Waterborne diseases are already a serious...
Curated Video
Human and Environment Interactions
Dr. Forrester describes the ways that severe environmental conditions, such as earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, and droughts, challenged settlers in the United States. She talks about how the Hoover Dam was built for flood control. She...
Curated Video
Wildfire
This video introduces the viewer to the different types of wildfire and the ways in which wildfire impacts larger ecosystems. Clear definitions of wildfire and brushfire are included.
Curated Video
Water Crisis in Spain: Seeking Solutions for Sustainable Future
The video highlights the severe drought in Spain, particularly in Barcelona, and the innovative solutions being explored to address the water scarcity issue. With reservoir levels at historic lows and medieval sites becoming visible, the...
Curated Video
India's Water Revolution #5: Permaculture Rescue for Dying Farmland
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives. We tour the village of Ellarthi, in Andhra Pradesh, where the Andhra Pradesh Drought Mitigation Project has saved dying...
The Guardian
Why rivers shouldn't look like this
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually how it is supposed to look. It's the result of centuries of industrial and agricultural...
The Guardian
Drying up: inside the Californian communities without enough water
California's Central Valley grows a large portion of America's food – and that requires a huge amount of water. But the region is experiencing a drought and drying up the surface water that farms rely on. So farms are now pumping water...
The Guardian
The solution to California's drought: if you eat beef, don't wash
Would you stop showering if it meant that was the only way you could keep eating beef? California's ongoing drought needs radical action. But in a state dependent on water-hungry meat production, it would be politically dangerous to...
PBS
How Climate Change Will Make You Poor!
Even if you don't live in a flood zone or tornado alley, climate change will still hit your pocketbook!
Curated Video
Droughts and Water Scarcity
Droughts and Water Scarcity investigates environmental issues by examining problems caused by droughts, challenges of water shortages, and ways to combat water scarcity.
Curated Video
Immigrants and Migration
Immigrants and Migration analyzes how political, environmental, social, and economic factors cause people to move from place to place by defining the terms migration and immigrants.
Curated Video
What Is a Drought?
"What Is a Drought?" defines the term drought and discusses examples of the effects of a drought on the environment and the everyday lives of people.
Curated Video
Dust Bowl
A look at the devastating conditions in the central plains states during much of the Great Depression.
Curated Video
Informational: Problem/Solution
“Informational: Problem/Solution” video lesson explores informational texts, focusing on the problem and solution structure and explaining how to identify problems and solutions in texts.
Curated Video
Dirty Thirties
The Dirty Thirties refers to the worst man-made ecological crisis in US history – when irresponsible farming habits, drought and storms led to Black Blizzards that took the lives of thousands.
Nature League
Exploring Plants | Compilation
Brit looks back on our seventh month on Nature League, when we explored the theme of plants.
Hip Hughes History
The Dust Bowl Explained: US History Review
What caused the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. What was the Dust Bowl and what were the effects of the Dust Bowl. Yup, it's a Social Studies lecture designed to win you points and keep you awake. As much as the Dust Bowl allows...
Curated Video
Why California's five-year drought pits almonds against salmon
Managing California's drought-striken water supply is a precarious balancing act. Water is being channeled south to aid the almond farmers, but where does this leave the wild salmon population in the north? Featuring interviews with...
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: The Great Plains Region: Historical Highlights
This clip explores the historical history, and some important cultural features of the Great Plains Region.