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How much waste do you produce in a year? Have any idea? What if you were told that your town had become a zero waste community? How would you react? Take a look and learn what it takes to be a "no trash town!"

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How your split ends can help clean oil spills

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How your split ends can help clean oil spills

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Does your hair ever get oily? Just think how that can be applied to cleaning up an oil slick.

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How your split ends can help clean oil spills

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An oil spill occurs in a pristine area. What are the options for cleanup? What would work most successfully to absorb the oil that now coats the surface of the water? The answer is less high tech than you might think. Vox explains.

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Do you geotag the places you have visited so other people know where you have been? Maybe you will reconsider...

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Pristine areas with beautiful views are wonderful and amazing to visit. People post photos of these sites on social media. Is this good or bad?

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Why does traffic slow down when there is no trouble ahead?

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You just landed your first job as a member of the mayor's traffic control committee. Is there anything that can be done about the traffic issue in the city? This TED Ed lesson may just give you an idea of what to bring to the table at your next meeting.

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The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant

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The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant

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What happens after our recyclables go to the curb?

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The Big Sort: An Insider's Tour of a Recycling Plant

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You are really into recycling and take a lot of time to do it right. But, what happens once it is picked up at your curb or or dropped off at the nearest recycling center? Learn more about it here!

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Have you heard the phrase, "Humans need to eat lower on the food chain?" Do you know what that means and why it might be beneficial for the planet to do just that? Get some insight into what you eat and its affect on the planet with this TED Ed lesson!

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What makes blue-green algae dangerous?-Speaking of Chemistry

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What is the cause of all that blue green algae and is it really that bad for an ecosystem?

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Chernobyl: What happened 30 years ago? BBC News

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April 26, 1986, Chernobyl reactor number four explodes releases tons of nuclear material into the environment. What was life like for one Chernobyl worker who lived nearby? Watch this lesson and learn. Then, visit Dig Deeper for more about Chernobyl 30 years later, its animals, and the effect of the nuclear accident on the people who live in the pathway of this horrific accident.

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Our sterile homes might be giving us seasonal allergies

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Ahhhhh-CHOOO! Oh no, it is spring! Every year it is the same thing...allergies. Why are some people more prone to seasonal allergies than others? What could be the cause and is there anything we can do about it?

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We now have our own epoch, the Anthropocene. That's great news, right? What are humans leaving behind in the geologic history of our Earth? What fossils, elements, and metals will be found by future paleontologists digging into the rock layers deposited when humans were alive?

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Cutting forests, and burning the wood to create charcoal for cooking is a way of life for many people in rural Africa. Although people know this may be hazardous to the environment, often they do not have a choice. Watch this lesson to hear one man's story about his goal to change and give back to nature what he once destroyed.

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What effect does mining have on the ecosystem, people's lives, and the economy of a region? In several regions across the world, the quest for that precious metal such as gold and silver has an immense cost. Watch this lesson and find out just who may be mining that gold found in that jewelry you love so much.

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How important is dissolved oxygen in the water?

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How important is dissolved oxygen in the water?

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Dissolved oxygen is essential to life forms in aquatic ecosystems. What affects dissolved oxygen levels and just how important is it?

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Jane Goodall interviewed, at 80 years old, shares the changes she would like to see in the world, and her hopes for the future. What does an education look like to her? Who and what inspired this woman, all alone, to venture into the wilds of Africa to study chimpanzees?

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Do you ever travel on the subway from location to location? Have you ever thought about the amount of bacteria and viruses you come in contact with on a daily commute? Should you worry or not? Take a look, the results of this study just might surprise you!

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Mercury, a heavy metal and toxic substance, may cause damage to unborn fetuses and small children. What are some potential sources of this hazardous heavy metal and how can it be avoided?

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Semarnat nuevo video sobre residuos A New Video on Waste

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Everyone has their own idea about the meaning behind a video or short movie. Here is your chance to write your own script based on a public service announcement that originally aired in Mexico. Make sure you mute the sound and get started. Visit the "think" section to get some guidance about the topic in the video!

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The Nobel prize in Physics was won by people who invented blue LED lights! Wow! What are the advantages and disadvantages of LED lights and how can they change the world?

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Lead: The Original Artificial Sweetener?

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Lead has so many great characteristics and uses. But, as is common, there are often unexpected consequences of some of the things we choose to incorporate into our lives either accidentally or on purpose.

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Like to Bike? How is the pollution in the area?

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Like to Bike? How is the pollution in the area?

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What exactly is sustainability? Are you willing to give up what you want in life to think about future generations? If not sure, how could you be encouraged to do so?

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How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires

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We have been taught all our lives that forest fires are bad. They cause great destruction of vast forests throughout the world. But, what if they are all part of the natural cycle?

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It's not just a bunch of garbage anymore...

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It's not just a bunch of garbage anymore...

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One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Soccer Ball

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One man's trash can be another man's treasure. What can you make from recycled or reusable materials that could benefit someone else or make them happier?

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TIME - Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life

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De-extinction? Resurrection biology? Can scientists bring back extinct species? What do you think about this idea?

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Pandas and Extinction!

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Pandas are so cute and adorable, but are they worth saving more than any other endangered species? Often, charismatic species are thought to be favored over the "not so cute," species. What do you think should be the goal of endangered species conservation?

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The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary

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Plastic bags blowing through the air, traveling down our streams, rolling along our park landscapes and getting caught on vegetation. After all the traveling a plastic bag can do, where would it finally end up? Watch this "mockumentary," and follow the journey of a plastic bag to its final destination.

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Any oil spill in nature can be a catastrophe for both the organisms and people involved. How do you measure the impact of an oil spill as devastating as the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Once it is cleaned up, if you don't see it, does that mean it's not there?

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Population Growth

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Will saving poor children lead to overpopulation?

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Hans Rosling, renowned statistician, addresses this important question. Does he agree or disagree with this logic? Watch this lesson and find out more!

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Lonesome George The Galapagos Tortoise

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Lonesome George, the last Galapagos tortoise of his kind was an extinction icon across the world. George died of old age without ever having offspring. Here is his story.