Instructional Video9:00
TED Talks

The world's first "nature superpower" | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

12th - Higher Ed
Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all part of a multi-billion-dollar global environmental crime economy. Civic entrepreneur...
Instructional Video7:35
SciShow

Reforestation Does Not Begin With Planting Trees

12th - Higher Ed
Reforesting unneeded farmland could be a huge key for getting the climate crisis under control. Which is why Pat Brown, creator of the Impossible Burger, is trying to figure out the best way to do it.



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Instructional Video9:15
TED Talks

The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama

12th - Higher Ed
Palm oil is in nearly every commodity you use — food, shampoo, makeup and more — but harvesting this essential material has contributed to the destruction of millions of hectares of forests globally. Sustainability leader Andika...
Instructional Video2:50
MinuteEarth

How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

12th - Higher Ed
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
Instructional Video1:43
MinuteEarth

Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

12th - Higher Ed
Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails
Instructional Video7:22
TED Talks

TED: How poop turns into forests | Ludmila Rattis

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know the world's largest tropical forest is partly formed by seeds emerging from poop? Ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals the surprisingly fruitful benefits of letting nature take care of its own business, sharing how the digestive...
Instructional Video7:55
PBS

How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

12th - Higher Ed
The Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with...
Instructional Video10:42
TED Talks

TED: The growing megafire crisis -- and how to contain it | George T. Whitesides

12th - Higher Ed
Megafires, or fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are becoming more frequent worldwide, wreaking havoc on landscapes and communities -- and fire experts say the problem is only going to get worse. George T. Whitesides is focused on...
Instructional Video3:12
MinuteEarth

The Plant You Don’t Have To Water

12th - Higher Ed
Some plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live.
Instructional Video2:28
MinuteEarth

Mushroom Wars

12th - Higher Ed
Two mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for forest dominance.
Instructional Video3:08
MinuteEarth

When Tree Planting Goes Wrong

12th - Higher Ed
Trees are a super-efficient way to sequester carbon, but since planting the wrong trees in the wrong place can do more harm than good, we need to go about tree planting more carefully.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

North America’s Destructive, Invasive… Earthworms

12th - Higher Ed
Earthworms may be good for your garden, but they also have the potential to disrupt forest ecosystems across much of North America.
Instructional Video9:54
SciShow

4 High-Tech Ways To Stop Wildfires (And 1 Low-Tech One)

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to climate change, many regions are experiencing longer and more dangerous wildfire seasons. Here are 4 high-tech ways we are trying to stop these fires in there tracks, as well as one that’s a bit simpler.
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

Why These Weird Carnivores Smell Like Popcorn

12th - Higher Ed
If it smells like delicious buttered popcorn when you are in a middle of the forest, it’s not because there’s a movie theater nearby, but Binturongs, arboreal carnivore, might be.
Instructional Video3:29
SciShow

When Winter Gives Dead Branches Hair

12th - Higher Ed
What is this strange looking stuff? Is this branch just covered in fungus!? Well, it’s not fungus...but fungus DOES have something to do with it!
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow Kids

The Layers of the Redwood Forest | Explore the Redwoods | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods!
Instructional Video12:07
TED Talks

TED: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

12th - Higher Ed
If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin...
Instructional Video11:54
TED Talks

TED: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

12th - Higher Ed
When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques -- and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren't always the best ideas. Peni calls...
Instructional Video15:46
TED Talks

TED: Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet? | George Monbiot

12th - Higher Ed
Farming is the worst thing humanity has ever done to the planet, says journalist George Monbiot. What's more: the global food system could be heading toward collapse. Detailing the technological solutions we need to radically reshape...
Instructional Video6:57
TED Talks

TED: Climate change is our reality. Here's how we're taking action | Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, Nana Firman, Ximena Loría and Tim Guinee

12th - Higher Ed
With the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore is helping mold future leaders to build the movement for climate survival and social justice from the ground up. He introduces us to four of the Project's graduates, each of whom confronts...
Instructional Video17:02
TED Talks

TED: 100 solutions to reverse global warming | Chad Frischmann

12th - Higher Ed
What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere? This hypothetical scenario, known as "drawdown," is our only hope of averting climate disaster, says strategist Chad Frischmann. In a forward-thinking talk, he...
Instructional Video9:54
SciShow

4 High-Tech Ways To Stop Wildfires (And 1 Low-Tech One)

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to climate change, many regions are experiencing longer and more dangerous wildfire seasons. Here are 4 high-tech ways we are trying to stop these fires in there tracks, as well as one that’s a bit simpler.
Instructional Video14:14
TED Talks

TED: An economic case for protecting the planet | Naoko Ishii

12th - Higher Ed
We all share one planet -- we breathe the same air, drink the same water and depend on the same oceans, forests and biodiversity. economist Naoko Ishii is on a mission to protect these shared resources, known as the global commons, that...
Instructional Video7:23
TED Talks

TED: The powerful women on the front lines of climate action | Farwiza Farhan

12th - Higher Ed
When it comes to big problems like climate change, we tend to focus on big solutions -- but many of the best ideas come from people on the ground, facing day-to-day conservation battles. Sharing her effort to protect the Leseur ecosystem...