The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
Adults EnvironmentThe technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle, so we need to improve it and use it less.
Can We Turn Earth Into a Spaceship?
Adults EnvironmentWorld ending disasters are common place in science fiction, and usually an inventive plan is required to save the day.
What If We Just Burned All Our Trash?
Adults EnvironmentWith Starbucks banning plastic straws and zero waste on trend, is the solution to plastic pollution and climate change burning all the trash?
These Plants Eat Salamanders | National Geographic
Adults EnvironmentPitcher plants like these are known to feast on insects like flies. However, at a bog in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario Canada, scientists have found many pitcher plants with a more ambitious diet.
What If You Were Sent Back To The Ice Ages?
Adults EnvironmentWhat would happen if you traveled to the ice ages? Would you be able to survive the earth in it's dangerous icy state?
What If We Burned All Trash on Earth?
Adults EnvironmentWith Starbucks banning plastic straws and zero waste on trend, is the solution to plastic pollution and climate change burning all the trash?
The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone
Adults EnvironmentPlunge into the ocean’s depths to take a closer look at the sea lion’s hunting skills, and to learn more about how climate change is affecting its habitat.
How Sustainable Plantations Help Save Uganda’s Decimated Forests
Adults EnvironmentSustainable forestry is helping the country electrify, cutting down on firewood use—and providing livelihoods.
What If Earth Only Had One Season?
Adults EnvironmentEveryone loves the summer season, but what if it was gone? What if Earth only experienced winter?
Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
Adults EnvironmentI took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there.
How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another
Adults EnvironmentAs Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangroves one woman is faced with the erasure of her beloved home.
How To Survive The First Hour Of A Nuclear Blast
Adults EnvironmentThe situation has played out in TV and movies for years, but what should you really do if a nuke detonated near you?
Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
Adults EnvironmentLyme disease is spreading like wildfire around the world.
Under the Dark Skies
Adults EnvironmentNational Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.
Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World
Adults EnvironmentResults from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.
How to grow your own glacier
Adults EnvironmentExplore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.
Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
Adults EnvironmentTake a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.
Climate Research Offers Coffee Farmers Hope For Their Crops
Adults EnvironmentGuatemala's third largest export after raw sugar and bananas is coffee.
Earth Hour 2019
Teachers EnvironmentThis toolkit contains assets which help raise awareness of the nature all around us, tools to empower you and the people around you to take action and advocate for this year's Earth Hour and beyond!
Descending Into Greenland's Ice Sheets
Adults EnvironmentJoin Will Gadd as he descends into the Greenland ice sheet in the name of exploration and research with University of South Florida professor Jason Gulley.