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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.

This animation shows how mutations in an ion channel protein lead to the genetic disease cystic fibrosis. The animation also discusses how research on this protein has been used to develop treatments for the disease.

This short video explores how the symbiotic relationship between certain plants and fungi allows these organisms to survive in very hot temperatures.

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.

This animation describes how skin color is generated by skin cells as protection against ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

This animation zooms into a coral reef to explore the tiny animals that build reefs, the photosynthetic algae inside their cells, and the damaging process of coral bleaching.

This animated short video celebrates 17th-century citizen-scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, whose discoveries of microbes changed our view of the biological world.

This animation shows how the malaria parasite develops inside a human and eventually causes disease.

This animation shows how the malaria parasite reproduces and matures inside a mosquito.

This animation provides an overview of the greenhouse effect, a process that warms the atmosphere and surface of Earth.

This animation explores how carbon enters the atmosphere and can be removed through a series of chemical reactions.

This video explores a microarray technology for identifying pathogens that infect honey bees. This research may help identify possible causes for colony collapse disorder.