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Aging Diamonds? In this video from Nature, geological detectives use ancient diamonds to learn more about Earth's inner layers. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Bianca Goes where the Wind Blows In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca and Mikaela want to fly a kite, so Bianca creates a wind gauge to test the strength of the wind in various parts of the park. Accessibility features: Transcript	3-5	Video
Clouds and Currents Learn about cloud formations over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Cosmic Origin Spectrograph This video from NASA features the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS), which allows scientists to use spectrographic analysis to assess the composition of intergalactic material. Accessibility features: Transcript	9-12	Video
Creating an Island Paradise In this video segment from Nature, learn the geological process by which the next Hawaiian island will be formed. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Diamond Formation An expert describes the carbon composition of diamonds, as well as the conditions necessary for diamond formation in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Diamonds Everywhere This Nature video offers an introduction to the socio-economic value of diamonds. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Dinosaurs This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows us what paleontologists think dinosaurs looked like, what they ate, and why they might have disappeared. We see paleontologists at work studying dinosaurs fossils. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Dust-Proofing a Mars Rover Enter the lab of NASA scientist Dr. Carlos Calle to see how systems are being developed to keep planetary rover solar panels dust-free, in this video from NASA EDGE. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Earthquakes This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes what causes earthquakes, how scientists measure them, where they occur and how to be prepared for one. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Exoplanets This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows the tools scientists use to search for exoplanets and describes possible characteristics a planet might have to support life. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-9	Video
Finding the Dew Point In this video from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad learns to keep track of both air temperature and humidity so they can predict when fog will appear. Accessibility features: Transcript	3-5	Video
Florida's Spring This video from Nature provides an introduction to Florida’s springs and how they were formed. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
Forming the Burren This video segment from Nature describes how glaciers eroded the bedrock of Ireland’s landscape. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Geology This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes and shows photos of the forces that shape the geology of the earth, including earthquakes, volcanoes, water, and glaciers. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Glaciated Landscape In this video from Nature, learn about the many different features and effects of glaciers in Ireland. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Green Energy This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes renewable and non-renewable energy sources and the benefits and drawbacks of each. It provides some ideas about how you can personally conserve energy. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Hawaiian Coastal Cliffs This video segment from Nature explains the geologic forces behind the creation of Hawaii’s dramatic shoreline. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
How to Build an Island from Scratch Learn how the Hawaiian Islands were formed by a geothermal hotspot and resulting volcanic activity in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Hubble Space Telescope This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the Hubble Space Telescope, shows visualizations of how optical and reflecting telescopes work, and shows original footage of the Hubble in Space. You hear why a telescope in space is valuable as well as see some of the amazing photographs the different cameras on the Hubble have taken. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Ice-Core Record of Climate This video excerpt from NOVA: “Extreme Ice” explores how ice cores reveal a relationship between greenhouse gases and climate. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Inclusion Conclusions Learn where diamonds originate and how inclusions trapped within diamonds help geologists determine their age in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
A Land Born in Fire In this Nature video, follow geologists as they retrieve samples from a fresh batch of Kilauea's molten lava. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
La Niña and Tornado Outbreaks This video excerpt from NOVA looks at how La Niña’s cool ocean temperatures may influence tornado outbreaks. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Lava Landscapes Learn how volcanic activity affects the surrounding land in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Liberty Lands In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-8	Video
Life in the Water Supply Take a close look at life in one town’s water supply in this video segment from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	4-8	Video
The Moon This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K discusses the physical characteristics of the moon, as well as its gravity, and distance form the earth. It includes video of Apollo 15 on the moon. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Mount St. Helens This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows photos of Mount St. Helen's 1980 eruption and what it looks like today. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Planets This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K reviews the characteristics of the sun and the planets that make up the solar system. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Rivers This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K takes you on a trip down Idaho's Snake River near 1000 Springs and Blur Heart Springs while it explains how rivers are formed, their uses, and how they make valleys, canyons and even plains. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Rocks and Minerals This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K presents the types of rocks, how they are formed, what they are made of and how they are classified. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Runnin' with the Devil This video segment from Nature takes viewers to a road race in Death Valley. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Solar House In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an electrical engineer in Virginia and his 13-year-old son explain how they produce electricity in their home. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	5-9	Video
Space Careers This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K details some of the requirements needed to have different space careers. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Stormy Seas Understand what happens when lava meets the ocean in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Studying Global Warming in Biosphere 2 In this What's Up in the Environment? video segment, an international team of scientists in Arizona's Biosphere 2 laboratory studies the impact of increased carbon dioxide emissions and how that might affect our future global environment. Accessibility features: Transcript	5-9	Video
Volcanic Views This video from Nature describes many aspects of Kilauea’s volcanic activity on Hawaii’s Big Island. Accessibility features: Transcript	2-6	Video
Volcanism at Yellowstone This video excerpt from NOVA explains why the Yellowstone supervolcano is located in the middle of a tectonic plate. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	6-12	Video
Volcanoes This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains how and where volcanoes are formed, and shows examples of the different kinds of volcanoes. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Water This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K shows us from where we get water, how it's stored and how powerful it can be. We learn how important it is to conserve the .3% of usable fresh water available on earth. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Water Cycle This short video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the how the water cycle works. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Water Erosion In this video from Nature, learn about the erosive action of water on the Hawaiian landscape and human efforts to limit it. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video
Weather This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K follows a meteorologist as he shows us some of the instruments used to measure rainfall, check temperature and humidity, and predict the weather. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Who Owns the Water of the Great Lakes? In this video segment from Planet H₂0: Water World, experts and teens inside and outside the Great Lakes watershed provide different perspectives on sharing the water from one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	5-12	Video
Wildfire This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes the 3 elements that are needed for a fire triangle, and how the job of firefighters is to eliminate at least one of the elements. Learn how wildfires spread, what firefighters need to know in order to fight fires and why rehabilitation is important after a fire. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
You Can Die Here Learn about the environmental conditions of Death Valley in this video from Nature. Accessibility features: Transcript	6-12	Video