Salmon make a hardcore journey upstream to their spawning grounds to reproduce, and it almost always ends with death. But some live to reproduce again, and more than once!

We’ll each have at least $100,000 more in our piggy banks, on average, if we stop climate change than if we don’t.

Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped lead to the Green Revolution which is credited with...

Call it "fuel without fossils": Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team's bold vision for Project OMEGA (Offshore Membrane...

Land thrives in Indigenous hands, and there are real, tangible ways you can help return what was stolen by colonizers from tribes across North America. Indigenous scholar Lindsey Schneider addresses the ill-gotten legacy of settler...

Mangrove forests are crucial to the health of the planet, gobbling up CO2 from the atmosphere and providing a home for a diverse array of species. But these rich habitats are under continual threat from deforestation and industry. In an...

Did you know that all living things change their environments? It's true. Beavers, deer, worms, and humans all change their environments. It just so happens that humans change our environments in big, obvious ways. In this episode,...

What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to...

Sin lluvia, los bosques lluviosos no serían bosques lluviosos. Pero sin bosques lluviosos, no habría tanta lluvia. Así que ¿qué fue primero ___________ REFERENCIAS Boyce, C.K. et al. 2010. Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the...

¿Te has preguntado alguna vez por qué las hojas de las plantas son verdes y no rojas, azules o incluso negras? ¡Nosotros también! Este video es una traducción de "Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1" MinutoDeLaTierra proporciona una visión...

El agua de la Tierra: está bien, pero ¿se puede saber de dónde vino? Porque es un poco raro. Eres el mejor ♥ Siempre tratamos de usar lenguaje fácil de comprender, por lo que evitamos el lenguaje técnico. Sin embargo, en caso de que...

In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we examine the weird world of what we like to eat.

It's easy to assume that every trait - including stubby arms on a terrifying predator - must be beneficial, but the forces of evolution don't really work like that.

Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments -- and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban...

Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?

Scientists have been searching for the hard-to-find nests of Storm Petrels in order to protect them, but first, they'll have to follow their nose.

Our respiratory systems do a great job of protecting us, but they are no match for the smallest pollution particles created by the modern world.

Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in...

Explore the cycling of carbon among carbon reservoirs! Then discover the importance of nitrogen, essential for amino acids and nucleotides, and learn about the nitrogen cycle! Expand details for table of contents. Table of Contents:...

Technologist and TED Fellow Gautam Shah invites us to imagine how the metaverse could redefine the relationships between humans and other species. By giving individual wild animals a personal identity (such as Fio, a young orangutan in...

In 2013, a group of researchers wanted to create an AI system that could beat every Atari game. They developed a system called Deep Q Networks (DQN) and less than two years later, it was superhuman. But there was one notable exception....

La acidificación del océano podría causar graves problemas para los constructores de conchas. Siempre tratamos de usar lenguaje fácil de comprender, por lo que evitamos el lenguaje técnico. Sin embargo, en caso de que quieras saber más...