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Factory Farms and Organic Alternatives In this video adapted from the series Race to Save the Planet, learn how agricultural pesticides can help increase the amount of food produced, but can also damage soil and wildlife in the process. See how organic farming addresses some of these challenges. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Farm Nitrates in the Water Supply Learn how nitrate runoff from farm fertilizers can negatively impact human health and how a water treatment plant is tackling the challenge, in this video excerpted from Big River. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Farm Solutions to Water Pollution In this KET video from Common Ground and Cleaner Water, Tribby Vice, a Kentucky farmer, talks about the changes he has made on his farm to protect the water quality of the stream running through his property and the watershed in which he lives. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Fish Research This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the Chinook salmon's life cycle in the Pacific Northwest and why it is an endangered species. A fisheries biologist takes students through some steps of fish research with explanations of the kinds of information biologists gather to perhaps help manage fish recovery. Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Frogs A boy named Ben learns about the dangers of invasive species—in this case, frogs—in this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS. Accessibility features: Caption	1-4	Video
Garbage A boy named Oliver learns how to reduce the amount of trash he discards, in this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS. Accessibility features: Caption	1-4	Video
Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect This video segment from Race to Save the Planet: "Only One Atmosphere" discusses the greenhouse effect and global warming. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Global Warming Threatens Caribou This video segment adapted from Arctic Mission presents the challenges faced by caribou herds unable to adapt to a warming climate. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Global Warming Threatens Shishmaref In this video segment adapted from Spanner Films, visit the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref, and learn how an entire town may be forced to relocate because of warmer temperatures, melting sea ice, and coastal erosion. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Global Warming Threatens World Water Supply Potentially half of the world's water supply may be at risk because of melting glaciers. Learn more about the consequences of global warming in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Heat." Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Groundbreaking Pesticide Ban Learn how one child's willingness to share her experience of life-threatening exposure to lawn pesticides helped inspire a citywide ban of pesticides for lawn or garden use, in this video segment adapted from Playing with Poison. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Gwich'in Tribe Protects Caribou and Culture In this video adapted from Bullfrog Films, Gwich’in Chief Evon Peter of Arctic Village, Alaska, describes his people's connection to the caribou and their passion to protect Alaska Native land and traditions. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Habitat This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the 4 basic requirements of a perfect habitat and what a niche is within a habitat. You'll see videos of different animals in their habitats, such as; bear, moose, spiders and mountain goats, Accessibility features: Caption, Transcript	4-6	Video
Healing Mother Earth for Future Generations In this video segment adapted from United Tribes Technical College, meet Native Americans who are concerned about climate change and believe that action today can help future generations once again live in harmony with Earth. Accessibility features: Caption	3-11	Video
Health Risks of the BP Oil Spill In this video segment adapted from Need to Know, learn about the possible short- and long-term health risks for workers involved in cleaning up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
How the Arctic Ecosystem Might Change In this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada, learn why the unique Arctic ecosystem may be replaced if global warming continues to melt sea ice. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
How to Prevent Future Bhopals Henrik Selin, a professor of international relations at Boston University and author of the forthcoming book Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals, assesses the risk of future disasters like the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal India, in this audio segment from PRI's The World Science Podcast. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Audio
Intertidal Zone This video segment from NOVA: "The Sea Behind the Dunes" explores the community of organisms that exists in the New England tidal marsh. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Inuit Observations of Climate Change In this video adapted from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, an Inuit community collaborates with Western scientists studying climate change. Inuit observations are recorded and included in the data collection process, expanding the scientists' understanding of changes in the area. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Iñupiaq Whale Hunt This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, provides a portrait of Iñupiaq whaling as a community activity, as told through the story of one hunt. Accessibility features: Caption	6-9	Video
Juice Boxes A kid discovers that an ordinary juice box is surprisingly high-tech and, once discarded, will last for 300 years, in this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS. Accessibility features: Caption	1-4	Video
The Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle This video adapted from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department describes how humans are helping restore safe nesting grounds for the critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle to ensure its successful repopulation. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
La'ona DeWilde: Environmental Biologist In this video profile produced for Teachers' Domain, meet La'ona DeWilde, an environmental biologist who integrates her Athabascan heritage and her Western scientific training to help remote Alaskan villages address environmental issues. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Leafy Spurge This video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!" shows how biological control is successfully combating North Dakota's infestation of leafy spurge, a non-native plant. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	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
Liquid Assets: A Water System This segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets succinctly explains how water in New York journeys from its source to our faucets. Although water flows under our feet everyday, we are blissfully unaware of this service and take it for granted. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Liquid Assets: Community Participation/Activism This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets explains the problem that the city of Pittsburgh faces in terms of its watershed management and the work being done by an environment group in helping its citizens deal with it. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Liquid Assets: Public Health This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets connects public health to the availability of clean and safe drinking water and elaborates on the threats our bodies face due to increasing kinds and quantities of pollutants. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Liquid Assets: Sustainable Water Use This video from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets shows the transformation of Las Vegas’ water infrastructure. A desert community, Las Vegas is reducing water consumption and re-using wastewater, making optimal use of limited water resources. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Liquid Assets: Wastewater This video segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes the progression of wastewater management from its early days to present day wastewater treatment systems. The development of Boston’s first-ever waste management system is described. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Living on the Coast This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, illuminates how living on the coast affects individuals and communities, particularly humans' interrelationships with natural resources. Accessibility features: Caption	6-9	Video
Magazines After learning that two-and-a-half million tons of magazines are discarded in America every year, a girl finds creative ways to reuse them, in this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS. Accessibility features: Caption	1-4	Video
Malaria Treatment and Prevention Strategies In this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival, watch a graphic representation of the malaria parasite and hear from experts about the physical and economic effects of the disease on the human population, as well as treatments and preventive measures. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Micronesia's Changing Climate: The Problem Discover what Pacific Island communities can do to reduce the impact of climate change, in these four videos adapted from the Micronesia Conservation Trust. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Mitigating Climate Change in China and Ethiopia In this video segment adapted from "Hope in a Changing Climate," learn how an environmentally devastated ecosystem has been restored, benefiting both the local economy and global efforts to fight climate change. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Natural Gas Mining Contaminants This video segment adapted from Split Estate reveals some community health consequences of natural gas mining. Accessibility features: Caption	8-12	Video
Navajo Elders' Observations on Climate Change In this video segment adapted from Navajo Technical College, hear about changes in climate and in the natural environment as observed by two Navajo Elders. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
New Contaminants in the Water Supply In this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters,” hear about the challenges facing water treatment facilities and environmental regulators as they try to keep up with new chemicals found in the water supply. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Nihoa Island This video segment adapted from the NOW-RAMP 2002 Expedition documents a research expedition to Nihoa Island. It showcases Nihoa's unique birds and plants, the threat posed by invading grasshoppers, and restoration efforts. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
North Dakota Tribal Members Talk About Climate Change In this video segment about climate change adapted from United Tribes Technical College, members of several Native American tribes discuss their observations about how the seasons are changing and share their concerns and hopes for the future. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Observing Changes in Snowfall Learn how snowfall happening later in the year than usual is impacting cultural practices in this video segment about climate change adapted from the College of Menominee Nation. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Oil Contaminants Hidden from View This video adapted from KTOO explores why the beaches of Latouche Island and Knight Island, Alaska, contain remnants of an oil spill and discusses its resulting impact on the Alutiiq community of Chenega Bay. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Oil Contamination Affects Food Web This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
On the Yukon River In this video segment adapted from the Yukon River Panel, visit fishing communities along the Yukon River and see how Alaska Native peoples exercise stewardship of salmon to ensure that it remains a central food source and cultural touchstone. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Orange Juice A boy named Ben learns that the processing behind fresh-squeezed orange juice is simpler—and more environmentally friendly—than that of bottled orange juice, in this animated video from LOOP SCOOPS. Accessibility features: Caption	1-4	Video
Overstepping Mother Earth's Boundaries Have we overstepped Mother Earth's boundaries? What are the consequences? In this video segment adapted from Haskell Indian Nations University, hear a Native perspective on our relationship with the natural environment. Accessibility features: Caption	3-12	Video
Pacific Islands Benefit from Climate Change Adaptations Discover how island communities in Papua New Guinea are adapting to climate change, in these three videos from The Nature Conservancy. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
PCB Cleanup in Seattle In this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: “Poisoned Waters,” a Seattle community, concerned about its health, fights to clean up PCBs in its neighborhood. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Pearl and Hermes Atoll This video segment adapted from the NOW-RAMP 2002 Expedition documents a research expedition to Pearl and Hermes Atoll in Hawai`i. Watch as biologists assess the bird and plant populations and then work to eradicate invasive species. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video