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Your Jaw-Dropping Shark Questions Answered!

Title: Your Jaw-Dropping Shark Questions Answered!
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The Sharks Unknown team answers questions about shark biology from our viewers

Inside the World's Only Chile Pepper Institute

Title: Inside the World's Only Chile Pepper Institute
Runtime: 10:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Chile peppers spice up cuisines around the world, from Chile Rellenos to Hunan Kung Pao, but they can be surprisingly tricky to grow and harvest.

In this episode of Hungry Planet, Niba chats with two teams increasing access to chile peppers: New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute whose researchers are breeding mechanically-harvestable chile peppers; and the Transplanting Traditions, a community farm in North Carolina providing space and support to refugee farmers.

Learn more:
Danise Coon: https://aces.nmsu.edu/directory/person.php?person_id=463
Chile Pepper Institute: https://cpi.nmsu.edu/
Stephanie Walker: https://eps.nmsu.edu/faculty/stephanie-walker.html
Transplanting Traditions: https://www.transplantingtraditions.org/

*additional credit: Production Assistant - Mo Beatty

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Title: Is Clean Energy ACTUALLY Clean?
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Electric Vehicles are supposed to be the future of clean energy, but building them requires six times the amount of rare minerals as conventional cars. Do the potential benefits outweigh the environmental impact? Far Out host Sinéad Bovell explores the topic.

Title: Anesthesia Started As A Party Drug
Runtime: 18:52
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Before general anesthesia, surgery was a gruesome affair. The main reason we now have effective pain relief during medical procedures is because of...parties?! Maren Hunsberger follows the story of anesthetic gasses from the Old Operating Theatre in London through to today's science of modern anesthesia.

Fascinating Fails tells the stories of accidents in history that have resulted in some of our biggest discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs. Following those often jaw-dropping (and sometimes hilarious) fails through time to today, host Maren Hunsberger asks: "What's next?". By talking to today's innovative young scientists, engineers, artists, and other big thinkers, we see how the mistakes of the past are leading us into the science of tomorrow...and toward a better future.

Original Production Funding Provided by National Science Foundation - Grant No. 2120006 Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thos...

Meet The Indigenous Team Decolonizing Roller Derby

Title: Meet The Indigenous Team Decolonizing Roller Derby
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Team Indigenous was created to combat the racial imbalance in the sport of roller derby. Here's how the sport is helping raise awareness of issues throughout the community while healing members and building resilience. Catch up on episodes of America Outdoors Understory with Baratunde Thurston now on PBS and PBS Terra.

The Dirty Truth About Our Clean Energy Future

Title: The Dirty Truth About Our Clean Energy Future
Runtime: 11:28
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: In order to develop clean energy technology, specific rare earth metals like cobalt and nickel need to be harvested. These often come at a steep human and environmental cost– but what if there was another way? Some propose sourcing these metals from the ocean floor or asteroids, but these solutions come with additional considerations and concerns.

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Curious about the future? With the help of a diverse cast of innovators, researchers, and dreamers, FAR OUT explores the future of humanity on this big, messy planet called Earth -- and maybe beyond!

Hosted by futurist Sinéad Bovell, Far Out invites viewers to get informed about what’s to come. The series is produced for PBS by PBS North Carolina, the team behind the award-winning PBS series Overview.

#animal #communication #FarOutPBS

Why Are There Ladybugs in Your Home This Winter?

Title: Why Are There Ladybugs in Your Home This Winter?
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Have you seen any ladybugs on your windowsill this winter? Find out what makes your house the ideal winter getaway for these insects with Insectarium host Dr. Jessica L Ware!

Title: And If Yellowstone Erupts...?
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: There are only around 20 supervolcanoes in the entire world. And when they erupt, they are among the most cataclysmic events on earth. And there is one simmering under Yellowstone. So, just how bad would it be if it exploded? Weathered's Maiya May explains.

Can Sharks Really Smell Blood from a Mile Away?

Title: Can Sharks Really Smell Blood from a Mile Away?
Runtime: 14:52
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: What does a shark's olfactory system look like? What smells are they attracted to? In this episode, Jasmin joins Dr. Lauren Simonitis to learn more about how shark noses work and how natural chemicals found in ink produced by their prey could unlock the secret to the ultimate shark repellent.

3D print your very own shark olfactory rosette with this link: http://tinyurl.com/SharksUnknownOnPBS

On Sharks Unknown, host Jasmin Graham joins her peers in shark science to investigate mysteries including shark migration, and the effects of climate change. Jasmin and her guests connect on how their lives inform and impact their research.

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What Ancient Leftovers Reveal to Scientists 🕵️🍛 #foodscience #hungryplanet #history

Title: What Ancient Leftovers Reveal to Scientists 🕵️🍛 #foodscience #hungryplanet #history
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Scientists looked at microscopic plant matter found on ancient tools from Southern Vietnam. They compared the plant matter with over 200 starchy plants and 26 spices and figured out that these bits were eight different spices. Niba, host of Hungry Planet, explains.

Earth was frozen for MILLIONS of years. What does that teach us about today?

Title: Earth was frozen for MILLIONS of years. What does that teach us about today?
Runtime: 11:05
Date posted: 3 years ago
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If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our planet’s temperature has made wild swings. In fact, the Earth used to be completely covered in snow and ice! So, what’s the big deal about a few degrees of warming today? In this episode of Weathered, we take a deep dive into Earth’s climate history in order to better understand our current moment.

Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.

Thumbnail image credits: NASA, Ian Webster and C.R. Scotese

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Bacteria Can Help Fashion Clean Up Its Act

Title: Bacteria Can Help Fashion Clean Up Its Act
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: #bacteria are one creative solution to the textile industry's pollution problem. To learn more about environmentally friendly ways to use color, check out the latest episode of Fascinating Fails on Terra!

Title: 2023's Craziest Weather Records
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: 2023 has not only been the hottest year on record. But with that record heat have come a long list of other climate and weather records. Here are just a few of the most extreme. Weathered's Maiya May explains.

Can this crop out survive corn, wheat, and rice? 🌾 #foodscience #hungryplanet

Title: Can this crop out survive corn, wheat, and rice? 🌾 #foodscience #hungryplanet
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Sorghum could be the superhero of grains. It can adapt to all kinds of intense climate changes, which may vital for the future. This means it could be a game-changer for disaster relief when other crops just can't make it, Niba from Hungry Planet explains.

Title: This Volcano Won't Stop Erupting
Runtime: 10:04
Date posted: 3 years ago
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Kilauea, a shield volcano in Hawaii, has been in a state of near-constant eruption for decades providing researchers with a uniquely reliable setting to study one of our planet’s most unpredictable and destructive forces. In a time of climate panic and tangible ecological destruction, what can we learn about the survival of our planet from one of the harshest environments on Earth?

Untold Earth explores the seeming impossibilities behind our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. From fragile, untouched ecosystems to familiar but unexplained occurrences in our own backyard, this series chases insight into natural phenomena through the voices that know them best.

Untold Earth is produced in partnership with Atlas Obscura and Nature.

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Title: Pssst: Ladybugs Have a Killer Secret
Runtime: 11:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ladybugs aren’t just cute nursery rhyme stars. Beneath the charming spots and vibrant colors lie killer instincts. They’re effective predators and sometime agricultural allies in their hunger for plant pests like aphids. Entomologist Sara Hermann, Ph.D. is investigating how ladybugs’ “perfume”—the chemical cocktail that makes up their odor—might even become a tool for sustainable agriculture.

Join our host and museum curator Jessica Ware, Ph.D., to find out how the delicate dance of predator-prey interactions in the insect world could help protect our crops and gardens. The series is produced for PBS by the American Museum of Natural History.

#Ladybugs #InsectScience #SustainableAgriculture

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How Tomatoes are Revolutionizing Urban Farming

Title: How Tomatoes are Revolutionizing Urban Farming
Runtime: 8:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Having a garden full of fresh food has multiple benefits, from nutrition to mental health. However, gardens take up space that many people in dense urban areas cannot access.

In this episode of Hungry Planet, Niba speaks with two groups trying to change this: Dr. Zachary Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who is using genetic approaches to make dense tomato plants for cities and outer space; and Raleigh City Farm, a nonprofit that is growing traditionally cross-breed tomatoes from the Dwarf Tomato Project and reminding people that food comes from dirt… even city dirt!

Learn more:
Raleigh City Farm: https://www.instagram.com/raleighcityfarm
Dr. Zachary Lippman: https://www.cshl.edu/a-new-tomato-ideal-for-urban-gardens-and-even-outer-space/

*additional credit: Production Assistant - Danielle Clardy

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Shark Scientist Answers: Is Your Favorite Shark Movie Accurate?

Title: Shark Scientist Answers: Is Your Favorite Shark Movie Accurate?
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Jasmin Graham of Sharks Unknown breaks down the scientific accuracies and inaccuracies of shark movies

Can This Space Umbrella Slow Climate Change?

Title: Can This Space Umbrella Slow Climate Change?
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: In order to address our changing climate, we need big and out-of-the-box ideas. Could a giant reflective "umbrella" be the solution? Far Out host Sinead Bovell explains.

Geoengineering: The Riskiest Way to Save the Planet

Title: Geoengineering: The Riskiest Way to Save the Planet
Runtime: 7:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How do we reduce the impact of climate change, and could geoengineering be the solution? Host Sinead Bovell is joined by sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson and other experts to examine the goal of Global Net Zero Emissions, direct air capture strategies, and why geoengineering is a risky strategy – that may be our only hope.

Thank you to Romany Webb, Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Gregory Nemet, and Ugbaad Kosar for contributing to this piece.

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Can Eating Crickets Save The Planet?! #foodscience #HungryPlanet

Title: Can Eating Crickets Save The Planet?! #foodscience #HungryPlanet
Runtime: 0:44
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Crickets use much less water than cows and emit a mere fraction of the greenhouse gases. They’re about 65% protein by weight, whereas beef is just 17% and tofu is 10%. Seems we've unlocked the secret to food sustainability. But there's a twist – Niba, host of Hungry Planet, explains.

Title: Why do Dragonflies Change Colors?
Runtime: 0:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: You might know that octopuses and chameleons can change their colors, but did you know that dragonflies can alter their hues too? Here are a few extraordinary facts behind dragonflies’ color-changing abilities from Insectarium host Dr. Jessica L Ware!

Title: How To Accidentally Invent A Color
Runtime: 18:55
Date posted: 3 years ago
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One of the most colorful accidents in history, malaria, and...genetically engineered bacteria?! These are all part of the story behind the color purple. Maren Hunsberger travels through time in London to follow the thread of purple's story from ancient plants to the industrial revolution, and all the way to a lab growing microbes that could just save the world's water.

Fascinating Fails tells the stories of accidents in history that have resulted in some of our biggest discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs. Following those often jaw-dropping (and sometimes hilarious) fails through time to today, host Maren Hunsberger asks: "What's next?". By talking to today's innovative young scientists, engineers, artists, and other big thinkers, we see how the mistakes of the past are leading us into the science of tomorrow...and toward a better future.

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The Secret Solution To Garlic Breath! #foodscience #hungryplanet

Title: The Secret Solution To Garlic Breath! #foodscience #hungryplanet
Runtime: 0:26
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Researchers found that yogurt can trap almost all of garlic's scent compounds. Specifically, whole milk plain yogurt. Niba, host of Hungry Planet, reveals the protein doing the magic.

Title: The Hurricane That Rewrote the Rulebook
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Hurricane Otis did something that should have been impossible. So, how did it happen? Weathered host Maiya May explains.

Why Are So Many Gray Whales Washing Up On Shore?

Title: Why Are So Many Gray Whales Washing Up On Shore?
Runtime: 12:03
Date posted: 3 years ago
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From Mexico all the way up to Alaska, hundreds of gray whales have been washing up ashore. The deaths peaked in 2019, and the numbers were so significant that it led scientists to call it an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) which kicked research into gear. Scientists scrambled to figure out what was going on, and what they found turned their previous understanding on its head. This episode of Weathered explores gray whales' complex food web and how what’s happening in the Arctic may just affect all of us.

Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.

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The New Technology Changing How We Track Sharks

Title: The New Technology Changing How We Track Sharks
Runtime: 14:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Jasmin Graham visits shark researcher and data analyst, Apryl Boyle, at El Porto Beach, California to learn about the work she’s done to help surfers become community scientists. Find out what we can learn from Environmental DNA (eDNA), how it’s analyzed, and how it can be used for conservation management practices.

On Sharks Unknown, host Jasmin Graham joins her peers in shark science to investigate mysteries including shark migration, and the effects of climate change. Jasmin and her guests connect on how their lives inform and impact their research.

Original Production Funding Provided by National Science Foundation - Grant No. 2120006. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Series Funding is provided by the National Aquarium and the New England Aquarium.

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What El Niño Predicts for Snowfall This Winter

Title: What El Niño Predicts for Snowfall This Winter
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: With El Niño officially here, and predicted to get stronger, let's see how it's going to affect our snow forecast for this winter! Weathered host Maiya May breaks it down.

What NASA Is Looking For In Yellowstone National Park

Title: What NASA Is Looking For In Yellowstone National Park
Runtime: 7:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The Grand Prismatic Spring is the most recognizable thermal feature of Yellowstone National Park, but some of its most fascinating features are invisible to the naked eye. Underwater exists a diverse system of microbes which scientists have been studying for decades, and have been the catalyst for life changing discoveries. Could these microbes be the key to discovering life on other planets?

Untold Earth explores the seeming impossibilities behind our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. From fragile, untouched ecosystems to familiar but unexplained occurrences in our own backyard, this series chases insight into natural phenomena through the voices that know them best.

Untold Earth is produced in partnership with Atlas Obscura and Nature.

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Why Dragonflies Are Even More Magical Than You Think

Title: Why Dragonflies Are Even More Magical Than You Think
Runtime: 10:47
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Before bats, before birds, before pterosaurs, a dragonfly-like insect was probably the first thing to fly on Earth. They also happen to be our host Jessica Ware’s all-time favorite insect, both because they’re impressive predators and evolutionary innovators.

Join host and entomologist Jessica Ware to find out why dragonflies are the strongest flyers in the insect world—reaching speeds of up to 30 mph and among the few animals that can hover. Then, follow scientists into the field to discover what mapping the dragonfly family tree is revealing about incredible insects. The series is produced for PBS by the American Museum of Natural History.

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🥩 How to make plant-based meat substitutes taste more like meat! 🧅 #foodscience #hungryplanet

Title: 🥩 How to make plant-based meat substitutes taste more like meat! 🧅 #foodscience #hungryplanet
Runtime: 0:39
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Ever bitten into a plant-based burger and thought, "This does NOT taste like meat?"
Scientists at the University of Leeds might have cracked the code to make plant proteins juicier! Their secret ingredient? Fermented onions. Hungry Planet host Niba explains.

What Vermont's Historic Floods Tell Us About Climate Change

Title: What Vermont's Historic Floods Tell Us About Climate Change
Runtime: 13:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Find America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston here: https://to.pbs.org/3uKw6b8

In Vermont, summer is supposed to be about picnics, wild blueberries and maple creamies. And that’s how it was in 2023, until the floods came. In the hottest July since we started keeping records, the rain didn’t stop for two days, dropping more than nine inches of rain on some cities. And Montpelier, the state capitol, was fighting for its life.

America Outdoors: Understory was on the scene to capture what happened in Montpelier, the fighting spirit of its citizens and the science behind the worst floods in its history. Scientists explain the impact of rising temperatures, and the way the state’s magnificent mountains trapped the rain in narrow river valleys. Witness the devastating impact on homes, farms and Main Street businesses. Embed with rescuers who braved the floods in boats, and meet Vermonters determined to recover, while painfully aware that the very idea of summer...

Sweet Potatoes' Flavor is More Complex Than You Think

Title: Sweet Potatoes' Flavor is More Complex Than You Think
Runtime: 10:05
Date posted: 3 years ago
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Packed full of vitamin A, calcium, and iron, sweet potatoes don’t get the love they deserve. In this episode of Hungry Planet, North Carolina State University PhD student Modesta Abugu tells Niba about her research to make sweet potatoes more delicious by identifying the aromatic molecules that give rise to their complex flavor. Followed by surveying people to determine what type of sweet potato flavors they enjoy more. Niba also chats with students in the Sweet Potato Project who have planted, harvested and sold sweet potatoes at a local community farm. Hungry Planet showcases how scientists and communities work to keep food on our plates for future generations.

Learn more:
Modesta Abugu: https://potatoes.cals.ncsu.edu/people/mnabugu/
Suzanne D Johanningsmeier: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person/?person-id=36769
Sweet potato project: https://fresnoland.org/2022/11/1...

Title: What Happens When Sharks Ingest Plants?
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Are all sharks carnivores? This may seem like common sense, but sometimes plants end up in shark stomachs. Scientists have recently found that some sharks are actually able to digest the plants they ingest, and that plants may actually be a routine part of their diets!

Title: Should We Plant More Trees?
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: A commonly proposed solution to deforestation is to simply plant more trees. But does that actually help ecosystems? The answer is much more complicated.

Why are they releasing millions of mosquitoes in Hawaii?

Title: Why are they releasing millions of mosquitoes in Hawaii?
Runtime: 11:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Find America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston here: https://to.pbs.org/3uKw6b8

With over a million deaths attributed to them each year, mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on earth. For years, we used DDT to combat them, only to ban the pesticide in the 1970’s. Now, mosquitos are spreading as far away as Hawaii—invasive pests that harm both people and wildlife. In the post-DDT world, what’s the solution?

Surprisingly, one answer could come from a lab in Kentucky, where scientists are using bacteria to turn male mosquitos into assassins. The males mate with females, and the eggs they lay are sterile—a technique that has potential to thwart the mosquitos that spread disease. It’s mosquito v mosquito in the high stakes battle to stop mosquito-born destruction. Will it work, without upsetting the ecological balance? In Hawaii, they’re hoping the answer is yes.

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The Most Surprising Ocean Water Temperatures Explained

Title: The Most Surprising Ocean Water Temperatures Explained
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How hot or cold could ocean water really get? From the surface to the deep sea, learn why and how the ocean's water could reach some extreme temperatures!

Title: What's The Secret In Fireflies' Butts?
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Fireflies glow to communicate, but the same chemical reaction that powers their flash unlocks all kinds of surprising applications for humans.

How does a record-breaking ocean heat wave impact sharks?

Title: How does a record-breaking ocean heat wave impact sharks?
Runtime: 12:06
Date posted: 3 years ago
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Jasmin Graham teams up with Weathered host, Maiya May, to search for sharks in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. With shark researchers, Deborah Azevedo and Hannah Medd, as their guides, Jasmin and Maiya discuss the impacts of the July 2023 ocean heatwave on sharks and what future events like this one might mean for these cold-blooded creatures.

On Sharks Unknown, host Jasmin Graham joins her peers in shark science to investigate mysteries including shark migration, the effects of climate change. Jasmin and her guests connect on how their lives inform and impact their research.

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Why Is The Salmon Population Declining In This River?

Title: Why Is The Salmon Population Declining In This River?
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: About a hundred years ago, the Klamath River was dammed and diverted, causing the fish to encounter concrete obstacles along their journey upstream and making it challenging for the community to access their main food source. What will the removal of the dams actually mean to the river and the community? America Outdoors Understory host Baratunde Thurston shares with us!

Title: Why Tree Planting Campaigns Don’t Work
Runtime: 7:52
Date posted: 3 years ago
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In 2019, a Turkey tree planting campaign set a world record. Three months later, 90% of those saplings were dead. Planting trees to replace old-growth forests is a common solution, but it typically does not solve the problem. With deforestation causing climate-related disasters, it’s time to take a hard look at reforestation and what we can do to save our forests.

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💦🍚 Should You Wash Your Rice? Here's The Truth #foodscience #science

Title: 💦🍚 Should You Wash Your Rice? Here's The Truth #foodscience #science
Runtime: 0:39
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Researchers found that rinsing rice can remove up to 20% of microplastics and a significant amount of arsenic, but there's a catch... Hungry Planet host Niba explains.

Cool Us or Kill Us? Did Geoengineering ALREADY Cause a Massive Famine?

Title: Cool Us or Kill Us? Did Geoengineering ALREADY Cause a Massive Famine?
Runtime: 9:40
Date posted: 3 years ago
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This episode of Weathered explores the controversial world of solar geoengineering by injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere, looking at both the controversial promises and profound risks associated with manipulating the Earth's climate. Luke Iseman, the founder of Make Sunsets, tells us about his start up that is already releasing small amounts of sulfur dioxide into our skies. And then we speak with leading scientists from the non-use initiative against solar geoengineering or solar radiation management who warn against the potential dangers of this untested technology. Then we discuss the tragic drought and famine of the 1980s in the Sahel region of Africa and and its likely link to air pollution from the US and Europe. This episode sheds light on the intricate balance of our planet's weather and climate...

Title: How We Talk to Bees with Dancing Robots
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Researchers are learning how to communicate with bees in a unique way: dancing robots. Could this innovation help us protect bee populations in the wild?

Is The Future of California's Salmon Dam Demolition?

Title: Is The Future of California's Salmon Dam Demolition?
Runtime: 11:55
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Find America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston here: https://to.pbs.org/3uKw6b8

For thousands of years, native tribes in California fished the Klamath River for salmon, their main food source. Starting a hundred years ago, the river was dammed and diverted—and today, the salmon fishery has dwindled as the fish encounter concrete obstacles along their journey upstream. Now, what seemed like a radical plan is coming true, as the dams are torn down and removed. What will such a dramatic transformation mean for the river, the fish, and the people who live here?

Baratunde Thurston investigates what happens when the dams are hauled away, introducing us to the Native tribes who fought to bring back the natural course of the river. We’ll hear from scientists who predict the project will be successful, and also homeowners who are worried that the changes will leave them high and dry. It’s a crucial debate as other communities start to think about letting their ri...

Title: Facial Recognition has a BIG problem
Runtime: 0:44
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Facial recognition algorithms are getting better at a rapid rate. But are they able to overcome biases? And if so, is improved accuracy even a good thing? Far Out host Sinéad Bovell has more

Glow of Love: The Secret Language Fireflies Use to Find Mates

Title: Glow of Love: The Secret Language Fireflies Use to Find Mates
Runtime: 10:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: On summer evenings in the U.S., the night comes alive with the blinking code of fireflies. Each species of firefly has its own light language to find a mate. Our host, entomologist Jessica Ware helps us decode firefly flirting and meets a high school researcher on a quest to understand how we can help the love life of fireflies and keep our summers twinkling.

In Insectarium, entomologist and museum curator Jessica Ware introduces us to insects that upend our expectations and a diverse group of scientists who are passionate about the six-legged critters all around us. Forget about pandas–we’re here to make you fall in love with mandibles! The series is produced for PBS by the American Museum of Natural History.

Firefly images: iNaturalist / gugliucciello, CC BY-NC 4.0 | Firefly Conservation & Research / Firefly.org

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Canadian Wildfires: we predicted this 3 years ago

Title: Canadian Wildfires: we predicted this 3 years ago
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Smoke from Canadian wildfires are blanketing much of the northern and eastern US in the summer of 2026. In this video from 2023, we talked about the reasons for it, what made it so special, and predicted that it would become an increasingly likely trend. Well, here we are.

Places like D.C. and New York were blanketed with smoke in the summer of 2023 - but why? Let's dive into the summer's fire season, why it was so bad in unexpected places, and what it might mean for the future. Weathered host Maiya May explains.

#wildfire
#climatechange
#weather

Feeding the Future: Saving Corn From Rising Temperatures

Title: Feeding the Future: Saving Corn From Rising Temperatures
Runtime: 9:09
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Take the 2023 PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023s

From movie theaters to barbecues, corn shows up seemingly everywhere. In this episode of Hungry Planet, Niba visits LA’s Boyle Heights, where she chats with restaurant owner Deysi Serrano about honoring corn’s historical roots in modern cooking. Niba also calls plant biologist and science TikToker Katie Murphy to hear about her research to ensure corn will survive climate change. Hungry Planet showcases how scientists and communities are working to keep food on our plates for future generations.

Learn more:
Katie Murphy: https://www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/principal-investigators/katie-murphy/
Her tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@real_time_science
Deysi Serrano and Milpa Grille: https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/broken-bread/boyle-heights-milpa-grille-mesoamerican-food

*additional credit: Production Assistant - Nora Bradford

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Title: How Can Glass Restore Coastlines?
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Glass Half Full is an organization that works to convert glass back to sand in order to restore disappearing coastlines. For more with Baratunde Thurston, watch America Outdoors Understory on Terra

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