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Preserving Maize Genetic Diversity

This video follows germplasm bank coordinator Cristian Zavala Espinosa and geneticist Sarah Hearne, who are part of the global effort to preserve the genetic diversity of maize (corn).

Genetics
Evolution
Environmental Science
Scientists at Work
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

The Science of Climate Change

This film begins with phenomena linked to climate change and then examines how Earth’s temperature is controlled, how we know it is changing, and how the current changes compare to those over the last 800,000 years.

Environmental Science
Earth Science
Short Films
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

'Nothing else is here': Why it's so hard for the world to quit coal

Earth desperately needs people to stop burning coal, the biggest single source of greenhouse gases, to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. But it is the world’s biggest source of fuel for electric power and so many depend on it for their very lives.