Explore the complex issues surrounding climate change and its far-reaching impacts in this comprehensive video series. Delve into topics such as solar energy advancements, carbon dioxide removal strategies, water resource management, and the effects of global warming on ecosystems. Learn about innovative solutions like sunlight reflection, clean energy storage, and eco-friendly cement production. Examine the challenges facing nuclear energy, the beef industry, and forest fire management. Discover how climate change affects various aspects of life, from allergies to endangered foods, and understand the importance of recycling and reducing food waste. Gain insights into extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and their consequences on different regions. Analyze the political and social aspects of climate change, including conservative perspectives on renewable energy and common misconceptions about global warming. Through a diverse range of topics, acquire a comprehensive understanding of climate change and the potential solutions to mitigate its effects.
Overview
Syllabus
Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?
How to fix clean energy’s storage problem
The big problem with cement, and how to fix it
How solar energy got so cheap
The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air
The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers
Who's really using up the water in the American West?
Why beavers matter as the planet heats up
Humans finally figured out how to make it rain
The Italy-Switzerland border is melting
Hog farming has a massive poop problem
Why you don’t hear about the ozone layer anymore
The chicken industry’s worker safety problem
Why nuclear plants are shutting down
How 4 companies control the beef industry
Why heaters are the future of cooling
How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse
Why the US isn't ready for clean energy
How America's hottest city is trying to cool down
What’s killing Minnesota’s moose?
How oysters can stop a flood
Why some animals are shrinking
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Why beef is the worst food for the climate
Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in Africa
Are Australia’s koalas going extinct? We asked an ecologist.
New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean
The race to save endangered foods
Why your allergies get worse every year
Why you're recycling wrong
How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life
The problems with rebuilding beaches
Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years
Why chronic floods are coming to New Jersey
Why Atlantic fish are invading the Arctic
How a warmer Arctic could intensify extreme weather
What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic
Why a storm surge can be the deadliest part of a hurricane
How climate change makes hurricanes worse
Lyme disease is spreading. Blame ticks — and climate change
How dead is the Great Barrier Reef?
The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
Food waste is the world's dumbest problem
Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
Going green shouldn't be this hard
Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
I’m a Tea Party conservative. Here’s how to win over Republicans on renewable energy.
What people get wrong about climate change
Ta Prohm’s haunting ruins are also a 1,000-year-old climate change warning
A visual tour of the world's CO2 emissions
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