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Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor
How do wind turbines work?
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Alex Gendler
Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant
6:05
Alex Rosenthal
The world's largest organism
5:35
Jeff Dekofsky
The most colorful gemstones on Earth
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Stefan Al
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees?
4:18
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
The secret language of trees
11:24
Sam Van Aken
How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit
4:41
Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
4:26
Valentin Hammoudi
How tall can a tree grow?
5:03
Anne Gaskett
The sexual deception of orchids
4:49
Darren Croft
Inside the killer whale matriarchy
4:43
Balsher Singh Sidhu
Are we running out of clean water?
4:36
Congrui Jin
What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?
4:46
Kim Preshoff
What's a smartphone made of?
5:16
Dan Kwartler
What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
12:54
Noah Wilson-Rich
How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
14:15
Jennifer Wilcox
A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
15:53
Kate Raworth
A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
16:37
Penny Chisholm
The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet
14:14
Naoko Ishii
An economic case for protecting the planet
8:56
Tim Kruger
Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?
15:52
Monica Araya
A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
13:58
Michael Shellenberger
How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
15:23
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
How Africa can keep rising
15:52
Emma Marris
Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it
9:11
Shubhendu Sharma
How to grow a forest in your backyard
11:55
Lisa Dyson
A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food
12:21
Molly Winter
The taboo secret to better health
3:52
Emma Bryce
What really happens to the plastic you throw away?
4:45
Lieven Scheire
How quantum mechanics explains global warming
4:02
Aatish Bhatia
The physics of human sperm vs. the physics of the sperm whale
5:10
Scott Gass
How big is the ocean?
13:50
Greg Asner
Ecology from the air
4:14
Scott Gass
The survival of the sea turtle
14:45
Jonathan Trent
Energy from floating algae pods
12:43
Noah Wilson-Rich
Every city needs healthy honey bees
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