Climate change is causing weather events that are a direct threat to human life. We’re not gonna lie, this is an anxiety-provoking topic, as is much of the conversation surrounding climate change. Increased heat, changing precipitation...

The third speaker in this climate change debate is lawyer and Extinction Rebellion activist Farhana Yamin, known for glueing herself to Shell's headquarters.... [Part 3/5] Farhana Yamin Thinks We Need a Green New Deal to Stop Climate Change

Join Joe in this exploration of a true titan of modern engineering: the world's largest crane. With a lifting capacity of 5,000 tons—equivalent to hoisting a SpaceX Starship Heavy—this giant ring crane at Rotterdam's Mammoet headquarters...

Scientists are concerned that melting Arctic sea ice will increase the amount of fresh water in the Beaufort Gyre, which could spill out into the Atlantic and cause major climate shifts in North America and Western...

John Kerry, U.S. climate envoy, discusses​ U.S.-China relations, the role of the private sector in curbing greenhouse gas emissions and U.S. plans to propose a new carbon-credit program.

Graciela Chichilnisky has a plan to do exactly that. Co-author of the Kyoto protocol, creator of the carbon market, and leader of the “carbon negative technology” company Global Thermostat, she argues that the same mechanisms that got us...

Do climate models simulate physical geography and vegetation? Is aviation the sole driver of climate change? Has the absorption of CO2 by the oceans been factored into current climate models? Julia Slingo answers questions from the...

How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and economic development fit the facts? That is a question with which Professor Michael Grubb, Chair of Energy and Climate Policy at the Cambridge...

Climate models have revolutionised our understanding of the world. Julia Slingo, Met Office Chief Scientist and High Level Group Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, examines the processes which control the climate system and...

Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which...

Venom can kill ... or it can cure. In this fascinating talk, marine chemical biologist Mandë Holford shares her research into animal venom, from killer sea snails to platypuses and slow lorises -- and explores its potential to one day...

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build...

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Xiaojun "Tom" Wang grew up in the Chinese province of Shanxi, the world's largest coal producer. Each year, more than a billion tons of coal are dug out of Shanxi's mountains, and the impacts are devastating — from massive landslides to...

For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known as permafrost. As Earth's climate continues to warm, that carbon has begun to leach into the atmosphere, the...

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In 2016, the first synthetic organism of original design was created. When you hear this statement, what does it make you think of? The word synthetic does imply that something was built by man. But if you're imagining artificial...

Bipolar disorder vs borderline personality disorder. They are very similar but very different. This video is based on a viewer question.
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Interview with Henry "Hank" Revercomb, principal investigator for the NASA HS3 Mission's Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder Instrument. He is responsible for the infrared remote sensing of temperature, water vapor, and...

We’re almost certainly the first technological civilization on Earth. But what if we’re not? We are. Although how sure are we, really? The Silurian hypothesis, which asks whether pre-human industrial civilizations might have existed.

A data-driven look at how scientists view some of the most important issues facing humanity compared to the general U.S. public, according to surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center.

A National Science Foundation-funded team of researchers has made a surprising discovery 2400 feet beneath the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica...fish, invertebrates living and thriving in the brutally cold and perpetually dark waters...