分类目录归档：earth
These dragons from deep time are incredible creatures.
They're bizzarre,
they're beautiful,
and there's very little we know about them.
These thoughts were going through my head
when I looked at the p
I consider it my life's mission
to convey the urgency of climate change through my work.
I've traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story
of polar melt,
and south to the Equator to
All right, let's get up our picture of the earth.
The earth is pretty awesome.
I'm a geologist, so I get pretty psyched about this,
but the earth is great.
It's powerful, it's dynamic, it's constantly
This is a picture of a sunset on Mars
taken by NASA's Curiosity rover in 2013.
Mars is a very cold planet,
flooded with high levels of UV radiation
and extremely dry.
In fact, Mars is considered to be
Visible from space,
the Okavango Delta
is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness.
This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari,
more valuable than diamonds to t
[Oliver Jeffers]
[An ode to living on Earth]
Hello.
I'm sure by the time I get to end of this sentence,
given how I talk,
you'll all have figured out that I'm from a place called
planet Earth.
Earth i
It's my job to find aliens, so as you might guess,
I spent a lot of time thinking about them,
imagining little green women
meeting up with their friends, commuting to work.
And that gets me thinking a
let me begin with four words that will
provide the context for this week four
words that will come to define this
century here they are the earth is full
full of us full of our stuff full of our
waste
Translator: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Jessica Ruby
The next time you see a news report of a hurricane
or a tropical storm
showing high winds battering trees and houses,
ask yourself, "How did the win
and I want to talk about something kind
of big we'll start here 65 million years
ago the dinosaurs had a bad day a chunk
of rock six miles across moving
something like 50 times the speed of a
rifle bu