Sustainability Videos

• Recycling and Waste
  Environmental Issues
  Environmental Science
  Sustainability
  Materials Science
  Geography
   
  

  Engineers Create Recycling Plant That Removes The Need To Sort

  Engineers use the term single-stream recycling for their plant that takes the sorting out of the public’s hands. Trucks dump an unsorted mess of paper, plastic, and metal onto a conveyor belt. ... > more
• Wildfires
  Natural Disasters
  Forest
  Sustainability
  Earthquakes
  Desert
   
  

  Geographers Map Likeliest Places For Big Fires

  Foresters and geographers have mapped the locations in the Santa Monica mountains where the most destructive fires are likely to start. To make their map, they combined data about where fires were ... > more
• Climate
  Global Warming
  Environmental Issues
  Weather
  Ice Ages
  Environmental Policy
   
  

  Climatologists Forecast Completely New Climates

  Geographers have projected temperature increases due to greenhouse gas emissions to reach a not-so-chilling conclusion: climate zones will shift and some climates will disappear completely by 2100. ... > more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Storms
  Weather
  Natural Disasters
  Tornadoes
   
  

  Meteorologists Invent Better Way To Monitor Hurricane Strength

  Meteorologists have developed a new method for analyzing hurricane strength. A series of mathematical formulas transform data from Doppler radars into a 3-D picture of storm intensity every 6 ... > more
• Recycling and Waste
  Materials Science
  Environmental Issues
  Pollution
  Sustainability
  Inorganic Chemistry
   
  

  Turning Old Plastic Bottles Into Valuable Recycled Materials

  Chemical Engineers developed a way to break down plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate -- or PET, and recycle it back into high value uses like more soda bottles, water bottles, beer ... > more
• Water
  Tsunamis
  Natural Disasters
  Nature of Water
  Floods
  Pollution
   
  

  The Science Behind Wave Pools

  Scientists gives us a sneak peek into the world of wave pools, and explain how these huge pools make constant waves. Waves are made by a huge compressor that feeds four gigantic air blowers. Then a ... > more
• Severe Weather
  Storms
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Weather
  Global Warming
  Air Pollution
   
  

  Improving Accuracy Of Hurricane Forecasts

  Meteorologists have found a new discovery may boost the accuracy of the forecasts. The surprising factor is dust, researchers have found that years where there was a lot of dust, there were less ... > more
• Floods
  Severe Weather
  Photography
  Encryption
  Hacking
  Natural Disasters
   
  

  Digital Photographers Offer Virtual Storage Solutions

  Digital photographers have a new way to safeguard assets in a residence or business. State-of-the-art digital recording apparatus is used to create inventory, which is kept on several protected ... > more
• Weather
  Severe Weather
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Wildfires
  Global Warming
  Triglycerides
   
  

  Geographers Calculate Atmospheric Effects On Humans

  A University of Miami geography professor and his colleagues have crafted a Heat Stress Index that will aim to analyze the daily relative effects of weather on human health. The index and its ... > more
• Air Quality
  Air Pollution
  Pollution
  Environmental Science
  Environmental Issues
  Acid Rain
   
  

  Atmospheric Scientists Map Pollution Decrease

  Spectroscopic images from remote-sensing satellites of the Ohio River Valley over 10 years have revealed a decreasing concentration of nitrogen oxides and nitric acid, precursors to ... > more

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