XKA Digital
Be flexible because the only constant is change
Rick started his business career as a graduate engineer in Electronics but quickly moved into the corporate world of sales. In 2004, he developed a fashion and lifestyle brand called Joystick Junkies and took the brand from making'dodgy'...
NASA
On a Mission: The Danger of Going to Mars
Many spacecraft have died trying to get to Mars. The current record for Mars missions is 18 successes, and 25 failures. The InSight mission hopes to improve the odds.
Weatherthings
Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta
Louisiana was struck by two hurricanes within six weeks in 2020. Hurricane Laura was a powerful Category 4. Hurricane Delta was a Category 2. The two hurricanes made landfall in almost the same location. Combined, they took dozens of...
Visual Learning Systems
Climates Quiz
This video is a quiz over the topics covered in the Climates series. In this video, we explore the various factors that influence climate, such as temperature, precipitation, latitude, elevation, winds, and topography. We also learn...
Espresso Media
Walls of Venice: Battling Tourism and Climate Change
Walls of Venice part 1/8: This video discusses the challenges faced by the city of Venice due to its unique geographical location and the impact of tourism and climate change. Overall, the video provides a comprehensive overview of the...
NASA
NASA’s Global Tour of Precipitation in Ultra HD (4K)
Precipitation (falling rain and snow) is our fresh water reservoir in the sky and is fundamental to life on Earth. This video shows the most detailed and worldwide view of rain and snowfall ever created and uses satellite measurements...
Curated Video
How Tornadoes Form
This video provides a step-by-step process of how tornadoes evolve, from the heating of the land surface to the creation of a powerful vortex. Explore the unique characteristics of different types of tornadoes and why they occur.
NASA
NASA | Towers in the Tempest
A hurricane's "hot towers" can increase its intensity by adding power to boost the storm's heat engine. For the first time, research meteorologists have run complex simulations of these phenomena using a very fine temporal resolution....
NASA
A New Model for Understanding Jupiter's Climate
Climate patterns and storms on Jupiter can have striking similarities to those on Earth. One such pattern is a four-year temperature cycle in the Jovian upper atmosphere called the QQO. This cycle has a little sibling in Earth's...
Curated Video
Italy, Caserta gardens and nymphaeums
Of all the royal residences inspired by the Palace of Versailles, the Reggia of Caserta is the one that bears the greatest resemblance to the original model: the unbroken balustraded skyline and the slight break provided by pavilions...
NASA
A New Multi-dimensional View of a Hurricane
NASA researchers now can use a combination of satellite observations to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. In this video, they applied those...
NASA
NASA | Scientists Link Faraway Fires To High Ozone Levels In Pacific
NASA-funded scientists have traced the origins of mysterious pockets of high ozone concentrations and low water vapor in the air above the western Pacific Ocean near Guam to fires burning in Southeast Asia and in Africa, half a world...
NASA
Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature
MAVEN is the first spacecraft specifically designed to study the Mars upper atmosphere, in order to better understand the evolution of its climate. By measuring windspeed and direction near the top of the atmosphere, MAVEN has discovered...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Boy Scout Camp Prescribed Fire
Boy Scout Camp Prescribed Fire, pine rocklands in Everglades National Park November 29, 2012
NASA
NASA Peers Inside Hurricane Edouard
The swirling nature of hurricane clouds are a familiar sight in satellite imagery, but in order to better understand these storms, scientists need to look inside them. In 2014, NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk aircraft flew over...
NASA
NASA | Ozone-rich air descends from on high
Ozone in the stratosphere usually stays up there and protects us from UV rays but sometimes the gas enters the lower part of earth's atmosphere, affecting ground-level ozone and human health.
Curated Video
Italy, Campania - Caserta Palace
The construction of the palace was begun in 1752 for Charles VII of Naples, who worked closely with his architect, Luigi Vanvitelli. When Charles saw Vanvitelli's grandly scaled model for Caserta, it filled him with emotion "fit to tear...
NASA
NASA | In Katrina's Wake
Hurricane Katrina took the world by storm when it ravaged Louisiana and surrounding states in late August of 2005. Katrina's effects were far reaching, and researchers continue to uncover new areas of devastation left in her wake. Using...
NASA
Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic
Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon...
NASA
NASA | Sea Ice Max 2013: An Interesting Year for Arctic Sea Ice
After a record melt season, an Arctic cyclone, and a fascinating fracturing event, Arctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year.
Curated Video
The Devastation of Typhoon Haiyan
In November, 2013, a massive typhoon hit the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia. Learn about the social, financial, and environmental damage Typhoon Haiyan caused.
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Are Hurricanes Formed?
This video is answering the question of how are hurricanes formed.
NASA
NASA | OIB Flights South 2014: A Sea Ice Mystery
Where’s it coming from? With global average temperatures rising, it would be natural to assume that total quantities of sea ice would be falling. But it’s not. Scientists have begun to observe sea ice increases around Antarctica, and the...