Instructional Video7:01
SciShow Kids

How Do Lakes Form? | Goodbye, Mister Brown! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mister Brown is moving away to Wisconsin, so Jessi, Squeaks and all of his Fort friends are here to say goodbye. But before he goes, Mister Brown want to teach everyone about the place he's moving to and all the amazing glacial lakes...
Instructional Video9:28
PBS

How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)

12th - Higher Ed
Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century to solve. These features turned out to be a result one of the most powerful and bizarre episodes in geologic...
Instructional Video2:58
MinuteEarth

Should More Species Be Extinct?

12th - Higher Ed
Watch these amazing rewilding videos from our friends at Planet Wild, in which they’re saving Europe’s cutest bird from extinction or resurrecting a dying forest.
Instructional Video2:41
MinuteEarth

What Happens When A Volcano Meets a Glacier?

12th - Higher Ed
Volcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

This Old Sailors’ Mystery Could Help Save Swimmers

12th - Higher Ed
For thousands of years, sailors have been telling stories of a mysterious phenomenon called dead water. Even after scientists figured out why it happens, it still affects swimmers today.
Instructional Video6:02
SciShow

The Truth Behind the Disappearing Lakes

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis

12th - Higher Ed
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

What Penguin Bones Can Tell Us About Dying Glaciers

12th - Higher Ed
We know these glaciers are already on the way out, so we need to find out whether we can bulk them back up again. For that, we turn to the glaciers’ past – and a lot of penguin bones.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow Kids

Where Do Caves Come From? | Let's Explore Caves! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks is back from visiting Sam the Bat’s cave and is excited to learn all about how different caves form and why they look the ways they do!
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

Treating Blindness With Light (and Gene Therapy) | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We have the first published example of using light and gene therapy to restore someone's vision! And in heavier (metal) news, a recent study found surprisingly high levels of mercury in meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Instructional Video5:44
Be Smart

Inside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue

12th - Higher Ed
Where do glaciers and icebergs get their beautiful blue color? This unique blue might be nature's most brilliant, and the color arises in a very special way thanks to some surprising interactions between light and water molecules. Who...
Instructional Video19:16
TED Talks

TED: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | James Balog

12th - Higher Ed
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
Instructional Video12:10
Crash Course

What is Climate Change? Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
Today we’re going to talk about climate change which is when there is a change in the average weather patterns in a region over a long period of time - these changes can be natural or human-caused. We’ll discuss the main driving forces...
Instructional Video9:03
TED Talks

Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication

12th - Higher Ed
Artist Kate Hartman uses wearable electronics to explore how we communicate, with ourselves and with the world. In this quirky and thought-provoking talk, she shows the "Talk to Yourself Hat", the "Inflatable Heart", the "Glacier...
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

Chemical Earmuffs: The Future of Hearing Protection? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A group of scientists this week has found a chemical trick that might one day help block the harmful effects of loud noises on our ears, and another has built an underwater robot to take a look underneath Thwaites glacier.
Instructional Video8:02
TED Talks

TED: My glacier cave discoveries | Eddy Cartaya

12th - Higher Ed
Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier caves that they were the first to explore. As the Sandy Glacier slowly slides down Mount Hood in...
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis

12th - Higher Ed
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
Instructional Video7:14
TED Talks

TED: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of earth | Zaria Forman

12th - Higher Ed
Zaria Forman's large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition, turbulence and tranquility. Join her as she discusses the meditative process of...
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

Should You Worry About Antarctica's New, Massive Iceberg?

12th - Higher Ed
How concerned are scientists about the Larson C ice shelf calving its most recent iceberg? Archeologists have also found new evidence that confirms earlier dates for the existence of ancient Australian humans.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

GRACE Mission Data Informs Climate Science: Getting Beyond the Spin About Sea-Level Rise

12th - Higher Ed
Hank sets the record straight on some of the findings of NASA's GRACE mission and how they relate to predictions about sea level rise and climate change.
Instructional Video7:07
SciShow

Cheating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings you news from around the universe, including what you can't blame on global warming, why being unfaithful is hazardous to your health, and how to watch a particularly awesome spectacle coming to a sky near you.
Instructional Video3:10
SciShow

This Old Sailors’ Mystery Could Help Save Swimmers

12th - Higher Ed
For thousands of years, sailors have been telling stories of a mysterious phenomenon called dead water. Even after scientists figured out why it happens, it still affects swimmers today.