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Boyan Slat dropped out of school to work on his design for a device that could collect the trillions of pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Af... (2018)
Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farmi... (2018)
From sharks to ice shelves, monsoons to volcanoes, the scope of ocean monitoring is widening "...The ability to see bits of the ocean, and thing... (2018)
Wealthy individuals are now funding the push for healthier oceans "a growing number of wealthy individuals are putting the oceans at the centre ... (2018)
Open-ocean fish farming is becoming easier "AN UNUSUAL object arrived off the coast of Norway last September. Roughly the weight of the Eiffel T... (2018)
Technology is transforming the relationship between people and the oceans, says Hal Hodson " IN THE summer of 1942, as America’s Pacific fleet w... (2018)
New technologies could help combat climate change by turning carbon dioxide into fuel “Every year, the billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide... (2018)
IN A paper published last year in Science Advances, Roland Geyer of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues put the cumulat... (2018)
MEASURING the temperature of something as stratified as the ocean has never been easy. Before the 1980s, ships automatically recorded the temperatu... (2018)
ROUGHLY a fifth of all coral in the world has died in the past three years. Some experts believe that there is now just half the amount of coral th... (2018)
In southern Ecuador, flowering guayacán trees paint the landscape yellow—but not for long. (2018)
Consumer products like perfume, pesticides and paint can contribute as much to city air pollution as cars. (2018)
A GROWING number of apps, such as London Air and AIRNow, are available for metropolitan residents worried about air pollution. In many big cities, ... (2018)
LEAVING unwanted broccoli on your plate is not just bad manners. It is also poor treatment of the planet. Perhaps a third of the world’s food—1.3 b... (2018)
BUILDING a wall of trees across the width of Africa is a tall order. Solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a grea... (2018)
FOR anyone who has tried jogging through smog, the physically sapping impacts of air pollution should come as no surprise. But pollution doesn’t ju... (2018)
IN 1985 a gaping hole was found in the ozone layer above Antarctica. Two years later leaders from around the world signed the Montreal Protocol, a ... (2018)
WHEN a giant and extremely photogenic iceberg grounded near the Newfoundland town of Ferryland in April, it brought global attention to the annual ... (2018)
INDIA vies with China to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy, but its record on basic sanitation is dreadful. Around 450m people relieve t... (2018)
THE fires are blazing. The west of the United States has endured some 50,000 wildfires this year, and over 8.5m acres (3.4m hectares) have burned. ... (2018)
WINDY cattle have always had an impact on their environment. But in New Zealand, where pastures that once grazed sheep have been converted into dai... (2018)
IN mid-2016 the River Seine in central Paris burst its banks. It rose to 6.1 metres, briefly closed the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, disrupted trains ... (2018)
THE people of Cape Town have spent recent years praying for rain. It has not come often enough. Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have g... (2018)
Trouble on the slopes THE great limestone peaks of the Dolomites glow ochre and pink in the summer sunset. The slab of the Marmolada glacier, th... (2018)
Plants can be frozen in place with the same anesthetics used on you during surgery. It suggests they may be less different from animals than is oft... (2018)
Landmark pact designed to allow time to develop science-based management "Nine nations and the European Union have reached a deal to place the c... (2017)
The plan is for 50 million new trees to repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in t... (2018)
The slender, delicate stream flows through the Mojave, giving life to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. "The Amargosa River is... (2018)
Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable ... (2017)
A new law could see the city’s cycling infrastructure completely transformed. "When Berlin unveiled its plans last week to become a more bike- a... (2017)
"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's hap... (2018)
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Upon realizing her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped... (2019)
Here are the causes of Sargassum bloom and what we need to do. What we are looki... Lockerbie College Published on Mar 24, 2019 Bonaire Vision... (2019)
For the past two decades, the residents of Martin county and the surrounding areas have been faced with a silent curse. A guacamole thick mat of bl... (2019)
Millions of tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year—it’s one of the fastest-growing categories of waste in the world. How can the fashion i... (2019)
CNN Special Correspondent Philippe Cousteau explains why deforestation occurs and its negative effect on the environment. (2019)
Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing these essential habitats on a massive scale. What is deforestation? Find out t... (2019)
Palau's vibrant corals are thriving, despite some of the warmest and most acidic waters in the world. In this virtual reality experience, Lukas Isa... (2018)
The Antarctic is one of the least explored places on the planet. For the first time ever a marine biologist has ventured to unexplored parts of the... (2018)
Beach nourishment is the latest chapter in a never-ending tale of erosion. About 80 to 90 percent of sandy bea... (2018)
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-tragedy-of-the-commons-nicholas-amendolare... (2018)
Watch as the March 2011 Tsunami floods a city. The videographer is on the street as the tsunami makes landfall. I do not own this video. (2018)
This Seaweed Was a Caribbean Disaster, Now It's Gold. Caribbean beaches are ankle-deep in slimy, smelly seaweed. Wave after wave of sargassum is bl... (2025)
The number of people with Parkinson's Disease has doubled in just 25 years, but its rise has been much worse in some places than in others. (2025)
What's been called the largest restoration project in human history is underway in Florida's Everglades. Billions of dollars are being spent to res... (2024)
Crystal River has long been a safe haven for the Florida manatee, but when an invasive algae wiped out the eelgrass that manatees need for food, th... (2024)
The $1.5 Billion Plan to Clean Paris' River (2023)
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
After a devastating hurricane and chronic flooding issues, the US Government, along with the State of Florida, embarked on a project which would ch... (2023)
Hurricanes are among the most dangerous natural phenomena on earth, causing billions of dollars of damage and destroying lives every year. But what... (2023)
Concrete emits a ton of carbon. Here's how we get it to net-zero. (2023)
In the face of the impending climate catastrophe, there has been a growing clamour to repopulate the trillions of trees our planet has lost over th... (2023)
We are experiencing a dangerous decline in nature: One million species are threatened with extinction, soils are turning infertile and water source... (2023)
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)
The $7BN Megaproject to Save Venice Planning to build a flood defence system for your city? You'd better watch this. (2023)
Global warming: I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works. (2023)
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually h... (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
13 Misconceptions About Global Warming (2022)
Listen to this episode from Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin on Spotify. How big is your backyard?Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin... (2022)
It's one thing to install new energy systems. It's another to get the money to do it. Donnel Baird, BlocPower’s founder and CEO, said retrofitti... (2020)
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)
An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)
Where does your recycling go? In most places in the U.S., you throw it in a bin, and then it gets carted off to be sorted and cleaned at a Material... (2019)
Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound... (2018)
Nestled between the mountains and the ocean, right next to Santa Barbara, sits Montecito, California. The community is charming and geographically ... (2018)
Thousands of scientists are working on research related to climate change and extreme weather. Dr. Tim Hall is one of them. Dr. Hall is a Senior Re... (2018)
In light of sea-level-rise threats, local organizations have begun to shift their missions towards resources and solutions in greater Miami that co... (2018)
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)
a collection of educational resources, in a Resource Library - from the National Geographic Foundation (2019)
Surfline - international surf reports (2024)
Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)
Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)
Now in its 10th Season, Changing Seas is a public television series produced by WPBT2 South Florida PBS in Miami, Florida. Since 2009, the series h... (2019)