Why Climate Change Keeps Failing at the Ballot Box
8:05 | More Americans than ever believe climate change is happening. Two in three registered voters say they’re worried about it.
How We Make Energy
21:39 | The extraction, and the resulting pollution from most energy sources has an immense impact on the environment, and that’s why we’ve got to talk about energy in the context of environmental science.
The Basics of Climate Science
15:59 | Let’s take a trip to a few biomes and compare what climate looks like around the world.
The Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
9:58 | Climate and weather are not the same thing. But climate change is making extreme weather events even more extreme.
Can These Books Save The Planet? The Rise of Climate Fiction
12:37 | Climate Fiction comes in all sorts of forms, there’s your Mad Maxes, your Games of Thrones, your Parables of the Sowers, and your WALL-Es.
Our Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
12:07 | We need to convert more of our diet to plant-based foods, and away from red meat.
Climate Change: Are You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
10:04 | In the past couple years climate scientists and climate journalists have started talking in scarier and more worst case terms than ever before. Why? And is this a good thing?
Feeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
9:26 | We’ve all benefited from fossil fuels, and most of the stuff we do in life depends on them. But we also know that we can’t continue down this path if we want to live in a stable world.
Climate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
10:54 | What can a bunch of circles and squares from a 19th century novella tell us about Climate Change? Its metaphor time!
The Best Cars For the Climate
7:29 | Say you’re looking to buy a car. How do you pick the best car for the planet? There’s already a lot to consider when choosing a new ride, and factoring in climate change makes it even trickier.
Why Climate Change is So Hard To Talk About
8:37 | Talking about climate change is hard. Not talking about climate change is easy.
Making Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
7:40 | Clothing is something we have to think about every day, but we don’t always think about how our clothes impact the planet.
Can Mass Carbon Capture Really Work?
6:16 | The question is, can we capture all that carbon before earth becomes too hot for us? Can carbon capture on a massive scale really work?
Lawsuits Crushed Big Tobacco. Can It Work With Oil Companies?
6:36 | Fossil fuel companies are being taken to court just like tobacco companies were, because of what they knew and when. Should they be forced to pay for damages from climate change?
Why One Conservative Texas City Went 100% Renewable
8:27 | Georgetown, TX is a conservative city in the middle of oil and gas country that’s committed to 100% renewable energy.
Could Everyone Have Solar Power?
4:56 | By the end of 2016, the US was home to over 1 million household and commercial solar energy operations, with 4 times as many solar panels installed that year compared to just four years earlier.
Coral Reefs Are Dying. Here’s How We Can Save Them
6:25 | Decades of environmental threats like warming waters and ocean acidification have pushed reefs to the brink. Can we use science to bring them back?
How A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
5:15 | Energy efficiency standards have quietly been saving people mountains of money and helping avoid planet-warming emissions at the same time.
How Farms and Forests Can Coexist
6:04 | Most of the deforestation in the world today happens because people want to put farms where forests are. So, figuring out how to farm with trees instead of just chopping them down could help us fight climate change.
How Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
3:59 | About half the world has internet access. That’s 3.6 billion people surfing the web. How much energy is that using? And what is our online world doing to our planet’s climate?
Indigenous Communities Are on the Front Lines of Climate Change
6:11 | As the world figures out how to live with a rapidly changing climate, traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures could help us understand just how things are transforming.
Will Climate Change Stop If We Stop Emitting Carbon Tomorrow?
5:56 | Imagine that aliens landed and gifted us a clean, limitless energy source. And instead of killing each other over this technology, we decided to immediately transform the world into a carbon-free society.
Allergic to MEAT?! It’s Happening Thanks to Climate Change
3:10 | Thanks to climate change, disease carrying critters are expanding their ranges, and their seasons are getting longer — meaning they have more space and more time to take a bite out of you or me.
Which Greenhouse Gas is Actually the WORST?
5:18 | We are adding extra greenhouse gases, which are causing Earth to heat up and disrupting weather patterns worldwide. So which of these many gases is heating Earth the most?
Climate Change Will Make MILLIONS Homeless. Where Will They Go?
5:18 | In 2017, storms, floods, and droughts displaced 18 million people from their homes worldwide. And by some estimates, over the next three decades, 200 million people may need to leave their homes to escape the same kind of disasters.
Is Climate Change Supercharging Hurricanes?
3:39 | It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how a warming planet and warming oceans, amplify our worst storms.
Using Space Mirrors to Cool the Globe
4:42 | What if we could reflect some of the sun’s energy away before it had a chance to get trapped?
Rich vs. Poor: Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
4:34 | The majority of greenhouse gas emissions are now coming from large developing countries, who are looking for cheap energy sources to drive their own economic growth, just like rich countries before them.
Beef is Bad for the Climate… But How Bad?
4:59 | Beef production emits more greenhouse gases than basically anything else we eat, so let’s look at the scale and impact of our bovine pals – and importantly, what we can actually do to make beef less bad.
What If We Burned ALL the Fossil Fuels?
5:45 | We have enough fossil fuels to make Earth intolerably hot & wet, so we’ll have to choose to not burn them all.
Why Don’t We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
5:03 | We don’t hear much about the hole in the ozone layer anymore. That’s because we’ve all but fixed it, thanks to consumer choices and a massive international agreement called the Montreal Protocol.
How To Survive a Climate Disaster
5:47 | Climate change is amplifying extreme weather events like hurricanes, heatwaves and other disasters. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of how best to prepare for this stuff?
The Best Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
4:11 | The average carbon footprint of a person in the US is 16.5 tons –TONS. So, what can you actually do decrease this number and make a meaningful difference?
The REAL Reason We Confuse Weather and Climate
5:03 | Weather and climate are very different. But our experience of weather can have a big effect on how we view climate change. Why is that?
Why Climate Change is Anti-Justice
5:10 | It impacts the people and places we see everyday, and it will impact some of us more than others.
Nuclear Power Was Supposed to Solve Climate Change… What Happened?
4:41 | Splitting the atom once promised to be the carbon-free energy source of the future. But today, nuclear power plants are aging and retiring worldwide. What happened?
We’ve Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
4:58 | We’ve known about the greenhouse effect for nearly 200 years and about global warming for more than a century, but we’ve had a hard time acting because our brains aren’t a good match for a problem this big.
How the Pika Adapts to Climate Change
4:52 | Climate change is affecting lots of living things, including the fluffy, cute ones. What can the adorable pika teach humans about adapting to global warming?