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Plants in Extreme Environments: Adaptations for Survival
This video is a lecture presentation on plants in extreme environments. The speaker begins by discussing the resources plants need to survive, such as light, water, carbon dioxide, and mineral ions. The process of photosynthesis is...
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Plants in Extreme Environments
To survive, plants have developed adaptations to regulate temperature and water, and maximise the capture of sunlight. Some plants have even evolved to survive in extreme environments of hot deserts and Polar regions. Biology - Plants -...
SciShow
How Extreme Microbes Are Helping Us Test for COVID-19
Microbes that live in extreme environments, like geysers and hydrothermal vents, are able to survive in extreme temperatures. Scientists have figured out ways to use this thermostability to supercharge DNA studies, including the study of...
Curated Video
Chilled to the Bone: Nicolas Vanier's Mastery of the Extreme Cold
Dive into the frigid world of Nicolas Vanier as he trains on the Vercors plateau, preparing for the grueling conditions of the Siberian winter. This feature explores how Nicolas and his sled dogs adapt to severe cold, focusing on...
Curated Video
Science in Extreme Environments: Where research meets exploration? (TalkScience@BL)
Why do scientists work in extreme environments, and is it worth the financial and human cost? Scientists travel to the tops of mountains, the polar regions and even outer space in order to conduct experiments, make observations and set...
SciShow
5 Robots You Can Hug
Developers are working to make softer, squishier robots that are flexible enough to maneuver in extreme environments, including inside the human body!
TED Talks
TED: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life | Nathalie Cabrol
While we like to imagine little green men, it's far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes on Mars, a hunt which counterintuitively leads us...
SciShow
5 Robots You Can Hug
Developers are working to make softer, squishier robots that are flexible enough to maneuver in extreme environments, including inside the human body!
Curated Video
Extreme Living: The Sahara
How satellite images revealed agriculture could be possible in one of the driest environments on the planet. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. 30% of the world's freshwater reserves are locked away...
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Extreme Living: Nomads
With nomadic populations in decline, the Darhad still choose to roam the harsh environment of Outer Mongolia year round. But for how long? Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. Nomadic tribes have no permanent...
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Extreme Living: The Frozen North
How the inhabitants of one of the coldest environments on the planet have adapted their lifestyle to survive. Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. People native to northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska and...
FuseSchool
Adaptations Of Plants & Extremophiles
In this video we will look at some examples of plants and other organisms that have adapted to live in extreme environments.
TED Talks
TED: A 3-part plan to take on extreme heat waves | Eleni Myrivili
The deadliest severe weather phenomenon is something you might not realize: extreme heat. Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer of the city of Athens, Greece, explains that extreme heat and heat waves are often overlooked because they're...
MinuteEarth
Extreme Weather | MinuteEarth Explains
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at some of the most extreme weather on Earth and its consequences.
TED Talks
TED: How farmworkers are fighting extreme heat | Jon Esformes and Gerardo Reyes Chávez
Farm labor is hot, backbreaking and dangerous work. To protect workers from extreme heat and workplace exploitation, farmworker Gerardo Reyes Chávez has teamed up with farm manager Jon Esformes for a unique partnership. Learn how their...
Curated Video
Adaptations Of Plants & Extremophiles | Ecology & Environment | Biology | FuseSchool
In this video we will look at some examples of plants and other organisms that have adapted to live in extreme environments. SUBSCRIBE to the FuseSchool YouTube channel for many more educational videos. Our teachers and animators come...
SciShow
There Might be a New Kind of Habitable Planet!
Extreme environments full of life on Earth have led researchers to expand the definition of habitability to something that includes many more planets, potentially leading us to evidence of living things in a dramatically shorter time!...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why neutrinos matter - Silvia Bravo Gallart
Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks in the universe-and the neutrino is one of the smallest of the small. These tiny neutrinos can tell us about the furthest reaches and most extreme environments of the universe...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? | Charles Wallace
Insects are the world’s most numerous and diverse animals. Even where you’d least expect them in some of Earth’s most extreme environments, there they are. From a scalding volcano, parched desert, to a frigid glacier, insects are living...
SciShow
3 Unique Rovers for Extreme Worlds
Specialized rovers provide all kinds of creative solutions to the problem of navigating new terrain, and future missions might just carry some weird bots like these.
Curated Video
EXTREME YOUTUBER PROBLEMS | Losing Control of Your Body & Environment
EXTREME Youtuber problems may not be very important in the grand scheme of things but they exist, and sometimes it is so hard to bring you regular content due to things beyond our control. On this particularly frustrating day I lost...
FuseSchool
How Does Global Warming Effect The Environment
Learn the basics about the effect of global warming on the environment. Over the last 2000 years temperatures have varied, butt hat today, average temperatures are already one degree warmer on average than they were 100 years ago. Some...
Science360
AI-powered software identifies voices in noisy environments
Imagine being able to hear a voice with extreme clarity even in the loudest environment. Yobe Inc., a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is developing speech recognition and voice authentication software...
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I WONDER - What Are Extreme Climates?
This video is answering the question of what are extreme climates.