Importance Of Environment
[Music] lumberjack surveyor Builders engineer it’s all in a day’s work for beaver they’ve got the tools and the know-how create a brand new ecosystem one log at a time when they build everyone shares the reward a beaver pond is a wildlife magazine it’s the place to find a mate in raise a family …
Have you ever wondered if the people of the Anglo-Saxon period lamented when information started being exchanged by paper quill and ink instead of lyrical songs with lutes and lyres? Did they mourn the death of the oral tradition or celebrate the beginning of literacy? Probably both. How did people in 1446 feel when Gutenberg …
*theme song* Good morning, class. Who can tell me about global warming? You, the big bear in the back. Global warming is associated with the increase in average global temperatures over the last 50 years. Yeah! And when we do a claim-evidence-reasoning analysis, we discovered that CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels was …
If we don’t deal with climate change we and certainly our children are in for a very rough time. We’re already seeing heat waves and extreme weather and droughts and wildfires as a consequence. That’s extremely clear. I come from California and you don’t need scientists to tell you about climate change if you come …
If global temperatures rise four degrees Celsius above the 1990 baseline temperature level used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, and that may happen by 2040, 2050 or around that time based on present temperature sort of rise trajectory. That would have a very devastating impact on global food production. Right now …
When we talk about a trusting team or trusting partners I think very often we forget that trust is not an instruction. Trust is a feeling. You cannot tell someone to trust you. No leader can just tell their company trust me. It doesn’t work that way. Trust is a feeling. It’s a biological feeling …
Life on board a spaceship is so busy. People just don’t know. Mission Control schedules your time, there’s this line moving across your computer screen that shows what you’re doing every five minutes for your entire six months on a spaceship. So it is a dictated and controlled environment up there, and nowhere does it …
One of the most extraordinary examples of beauty happening in the natural world is the courtship display song of the Club-winged Manakin. The club-winged manakin is a South American bird that sings with its wings. The female club-winged does all the nesting and builds the nest and lays the eggs and takes care of them …
Let’s say I only wanted to eat natural food… what exactly does that mean? Natural… Sup sup nature-eaters, Trace back again with you at DNews. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration decided to look into ‘natural’ as a food label. We’ll see what the FDA decides, but on their website they specifically say, ‘natural’ foods …
So when I served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1980s and early 1990s climate change first came onto the public agenda in a big way, and there was at the time a UN process launched to think about this issue. There was, in fact, the inner governmental panel on climate change …