UC Irvine professor Eric Rignot is featured in this Emmy-winning HBO series VICE where he discusses his findings of Antarctica’s melting ice sheets and the global impact of sea level rise. He told VICE founder and producer Shane Smith that glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amudsen Sea have “passed the point of no return” and their…
Tesla Powerwall Keynote by Elon Musk “The Missing Piece” English and Spanish subtitles added, credit to Luis Gámez for transcribing and translating.
Ein Tornado ging am 05.05.2015 in der Nähe von Rampe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern nieder. Der SPIEGEL berichtete: Unwetter in Bützow: Tornado verwüstet Kleinstadt in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 06.05.2015 – Das Kirchendach wurde abgedeckt, das Rathaus schwer beschädigt, Autos zerstört: Ein Tornado ist durch die Kleinstadt Bützow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gefegt. Die Behörden lösten Katastrophenalarm aus. Link zum Video…
MyRain is making drip irrigation accessible to all the farmers of India by automating the process of designing systems for their small-plot farms, with a mobile app and on-time delivery. Sponsor: USAID Global Development Lab http://www.usaid.gov/GlobalDevLab In The Making takes you behind the scenes of spectacular projects, people, and ideas while they are being created.…
Changing Climate, Moving People is a 35-minute film made by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), for UNESCO, which looks at disaster or climate stress related migration from three different regions in the country – Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand and Odisha. These three states are already amongst the leading sources for internal migration and have been hit by…
Dan Fredinburg, a Google executive and co-founder of SaveTheIce.org, died April 25, in an avalanche, triggered by the Nepal earthquake. His tragic death comes after warnings that climate change makes risks of climbing Mount Everest even greater. It is unknown how much climate change contributed to the avalanche or the earthquake, but the frequency of deadly…
The President travels to the Florida Everglades for Earth Day and speaks about the impacts of climate change, April 22, 2015. Release (14 mins) President Obama Visits the Everglades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DF3yrq-EeQ Protecting the one planet we got. Is, what we have to do for the next generation. – Barack Obama Earth Day 2015
Climate change is real, so why the controversy and debate? Learn to make sense of the science and to respond to climate change denial in Denial101x, a MOOC from UQx and edX. Denial101x isn’t just a climate MOOC; it’s a MOOC about how people think about climate change.
