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Map of Alaska with Anchorage displayed. 1964 Epicenter indicated on coastline in bay adjacent to Anchorage. Caption: The epicenter was in Prince William Sound

Spraying ice removing solution on a sheet. Caption: Just spray on and the ice that forms slips away.

Aerial view of farmlands in patchwork green and brown with a small river winding through it. Caption: this land that has nourished them for centuries.

A political map of U S. Caption: A national grassroots movement to legalize democracy.

A girl working in a swamp. Caption: I love doing conservation projects.

A baby sea turtle swimming in the ocean, descending towards the ocean floor.

The flock of ganders is swimming in the water. Caption: These ganders are far more adventurous.

Industrial plant from a distance. Caption: That's the world's largest PLA manufacturing plant.

Water rushes through rocks in the Fridley creek. Caption: when it's severely icing, it's a hostile environment.

Earth in space with cutouts of people standing around the circumference, hands extended towards each other. Caption: to cherish and protect our planet.

A large bird with wings spread and a tag on each wing that has "80" printed on it. Caption: so that in the morning sun, it can be warmed.

Photo of deers captured in a photo trap.

Coral reef with fish swimming in the vivid blue water above and two snorkelers at the water's surface. Caption: it has a lot of fish, it has less algae,

Man, with glasses in a suit jacket and button up shirt. Caption: the system may thrive again when it's reintroduced.

Tall snowcapped mountains covered in lush green trees and a light green river with two rafts winding through the valley. Caption: Clearly this place has to be preserved.

Illustration of the carbon cycle: Plants intake CO2, herbivores (giraffe) eat plants, carnivores (lion) eat herbivores, carnivores release CO2, and then plants absorb CO2. Caption: releases carbon dioxide back into the air.

People in full-body orange and black clothing with gear standing on ice in pockets of water. Caption: to trace where the black carbon is coming from.

Two trucks unload garbage. Caption: Male, we're standing on about 12 meters of garbage.

A seven story pump house. Caption: Its ultimate destination is this seven story pump house,

Blurry product label as seen through clear film. Caption: Naphthalene doesn't occur naturally in ground water.

A construction sight beside a water body. Caption: In an attempt to save the threatened Aral Sea.

A burning ship. Caption: On the 22nd, it sinks to the bottom of the gulf of Mexico.

Two people in a science lab working on a piece of equipment from opposite sides of the table. The equipment terminates in a spout leading to a large plastic drum. Caption: to improve access to safe water

A diver carries two oxygen cylinders and dives deep into the Floridian aqufier. Caption: It's the primary source of fresh, clean water.

Multiple multistory snow covered building complexes at the foot of snow-covered slopes. Caption: The winter sports industry supports more than 37,000 jobs

Two people at a glacier. Snow on the mountain in the background, one person standing on a rocky riverbank, the second person in the river with a measurement tool. Caption: Climate change impacts glaciers by a number of means.

Person standing on an overlook pointing at the drop-off edge of a dam. Caption: But, where does the water come from?

Person in shadow against a backdrop of open expanse of ocean and sky. Caption: The new adversity they're having to deal with is climate change.

People with sacks covering their faces and phrases such as "Greed" and "Self Interest" written on their shirts stand next to a person wearing Earth with a face over their head. 1st Earth Day April 22, 1970 Caption: It was the first celebration of Earth Day,

Close up of waves on the shore. Caption: it is dramatically changing the chemistry of the ocean.

Close up of globular coral with a striped tropical fish swimming in front. Caption: We will learn how super corals are being developed in the lab,

Towering coral reef with swimming fish as seen from below against the ocean surface. Caption: (narrator) But the whole reef system is in incredible danger.

Jagged shoreline with rough waves and plant life growing at the crest of the rocky peaks. Caption: ocean acidity will double by century's end

Flat, fan shaped, leaf-like structures grow off coral while a person in scuba gear swims by. Caption: Much of their oxygen comes off the coral reef.

Aerial view of a coastline with a coral reef running parallel to it. Caption: But the Great Barrier Reef isn't just old, it's huge.

Herd of bison grazes on dry grass. Text on image reads, "Core Biology. Environmental Sciences."

A blue whale in the water, from above. Caption: Blue whales are the largest animals

Dugong face with the body visible behind it. Caption: but it's actually a descendant of elephant lineage.

Adult male penguin with multiple penguin chicks and a few adult penguins in the background. Caption: He searches the colony, calling for his chick…

A sea turtle in the sand. Caption: most of a sea turtle's life remains a mystery.

A humpback whale seen from below. Caption: Today, just 10,000 remain in the North Atlantic ocean,

A hammerhead shark, seen from below. Caption: (narrator) Bull sharks, tiger sharks, and hammerheads.

A leopard seal with its mouth open. Caption: Armed, dangerous, and extremely hard to find,

A Hawaiian monk seal as seen from below. Caption: The Hawaiian monk seal is on the brink of extinction.

A carpet of green grass in a backyard with palm trees. Caption: (Steve) It looks 100% natural.

Hundreds of batteries of all types. Caption: Things like metal -- zinc, nickel, cobalt--

Industrial metal pinchers pick up a giant pile of discarded fishing nets. Caption: "You're gonna make electricity out of old nets? How?"

Person pulling a blue bin with "Goodwill" printed on it across a paved loading dock. Caption: How that clothing gets processed, organized, sold,

Closeup of a stout cylindrical cactus with long, sharp spines. Caption: They're drought-tolerant, don't require much water,

Large machinery on piles of garbage. Caption: We're obviously standing on top of the landfill.

The exposed spine of a roof with insulation and plywood falling around it. Caption: What happens to a house when it's demolished?

Two people with a box full of plants in pots. One plant is removed, and the woman is touching a leaf. Caption: There are insects that don't move.

Computer screen with wire form of a play structure. Caption: so they can see in detail where every part goes.

Industrial forklift moving several flattened cars. A giant pile of shredded metal in the background. Caption: We mix flattened car bodies, appliances, and sheet metal

Gloved hands reaching into a large cardboard drum full of lightbulbs. Caption: that live in the area that bring them for recycling.

Long pile of thousands of old, dirty tires. Caption: First question: Where do you get all these tires from?

Conveyor belt with trash spread out on it. Caption: Those small decisions can make a big impact

Stacks of disposable meal trays in foreground with a school cafeteria in the background. Caption: I saw a sign that said "Recycle Polystyrene Here."

Edge of a manhole cover with "No Dumping Drains to Bay" printed on the ground. Caption: That goes into storm drains and ends up in the Santa Ana River.

Split image of a toilet and concrete lined channels of dirty running water. Caption: Goes into the sewers, comes here.

Curving river with unnaturally even banks winds through green fields. Caption: which is like a highway for water.

Bird on a perch in an enclosure. Caption: When they're ready, they go.

Hands cupping plant detritus from the ground. Caption: it becomes dirt.

Two people in hiking gear standing next to a sign showing destinations and distance. Caption: It says we're 32.1 miles from anywhere.

Person standing in a forest and indicating an area on the ground. Caption: This is our grave site, and this is what we wanted,

Earth as seen from space with the Sun visible behind it. Caption: (male narrator) All across the planet,

Bats hanging upside down from the roof of a cave. Caption: bat guano was used mainly in fertilizers.

Manatee swimming in the water. Person in scuba gear in the background. Caption: Manatees are actually incredibly graceful creatures.

Person on boat holding a rope attached to a whale in the water. Caption: But steps continue to be taken to help protect this species.

Close up of a sea turtle swimming on the ocean floor. Caption: There are seven different species of sea turtles,

Human hand holding a small, thin brown shark. The shark fits neatly into the palm of the hand. Caption: Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. Caption: the small dwarf lantern can fit in the palm of your hand.

Close up of a sawfish on the ocean floor. It has a large flat body with a long tooth-lined shaft from the mouth. Caption: (male narrator) Sawfish are large, shark-like rays

Tryptic of a coral reef, ice shelf, and seal on a beach. Caption: Endangered Species Act. Caption: under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Earth at night as viewed from space. A network of glowing light is visible in unpopulated areas across the globe. Caption: of electricity to light our cities and power our economy.

Inside of industrial p0lant showing metal vats with complex metal tubing. Caption: We're liquefying the sugars out of the biomass.

Illustration of a fish with toxicity entering from the water and through the mouth. Caption: which accumulate more toxin from the smaller fish they eat

Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.

Underwater plants and coral. Caption: Science is working hard to help save all the pieces,

An aerial view of the archipelago in Florida. Caption: It is spectacular scenery, and I can never get enough.

A diagram illustrates a fish.

$Map of the western U,S, with fracking icons in Southern California, central and eastern Colorado, and eastern Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.$

Digital illustration of a cross section of land showing a wavy pattern of soil types with a black stripe labeled Niobrara 6,800 feet below the surface.

Closeup of glass containers of water with visible particulate matter. One is labeled 1/18/16. Caption: "This is safe." That's what they told us.

Fish packed in being dumped out of a bucket onto a metal production line. Caption: I think we have a good product because of our regulations.

Closeup of a hand handling a small, green plant in a densely populated patch of similar plants. Caption: How do green roofs change how a building transfers heat?

Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons

Illustration of a windmill 100 meters tall receiving air current next to a much taller structure receiving a much larger air current. Caption: The beauty of wind turbines is that they're 100% clean.

A baby turtle still mostly in a broken shell nestled in the sand. Caption: USGS

River with forests banks and a sun setting in the sky. Caption: but they could work with the rivers,

Small boats with people on the water at sunset. Caption: This way of life has been around for a long time.

Illustration of interlinked structures. Caption: in life sciences and nanotechnology.

Green and brown glass bottles spelling out the word "REDUCE". Caption: because the more people recycle, the more money the city saves.

Round metal object underwater. Caption: is that water creates a shield for radiation.

lionfish. Caption: People buy them because they're beautiful fish.

Two fish swim in a tank.

Illustration of an adult gorilla holding a baby gorilla, other adult gorillas in a forest the background. Caption: He was part of a large family of western lowland gorillas.

A large landfill. Caption: Dylan, Landfills have become huge mountains of trash.

A brokenplastic container is found on the shores. Caption: Broken pieces are becoming part of the beach.

A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.

A flooded neighborhood. Caption: living here, in the future's past.

Northern hemisphere of Earth as seen from space. Caption: There is no doubt the world is changing.

People in an open-air enclosure standing around a table with paper and other objects on the surface. Caption: is that I am surrounded by really curious people,

Extremely busy city street full of vehicles and people. Caption: But the problem goes beyond these numbers.

Illustration of a tree with a face looking upset. Caption: I don't want to become a plank of wood!

Illustration of a spider on a light switch. Caption: Okay? And we're off.

Cartoon image of a child. Caption: You don't eat little children, do you?

Illustration of a cat. Caption: Have you smelled the air? It's unbreathable!

Illustration of two people floating on a platform and moving towards a waterfall. Caption: (Hanna) They disappeared into the waterfall.

Illustration of a person reaching to take something from a tree's hand. Caption: Take them and find a pretty spot to plant them.

Cartoon of a person speaking to a bird. Caption: There's no big rush. My boat's faster than his.

Illustration of a spider holding up a clothespin, surrounded by trash. Caption: All the useless things we buy turn up here.

Illustration of people crouching to look at water coming out of a pipe after the water has been processed. Caption: The station has almost totally cleaned the water.

Closeup of a brown toad. Caption: there's probably 20, 30 mature toads in this area.

Underwater view of tangles of nets floating stationary. Caption: nets cause extensive damage to the ecosystem

A diagram of an infected tree treated with a pesticide is labeled, protection strategies.

Closeup of rows of seedlings planted in a field. Caption: (Lappé) What was the seed that created your food?

Rows of large frozen fish on the ground with people walking between the rows. Caption: Almost all the world's catch ends up here.

School of small, silver fish. Caption: Creatures are on the move.

School of golden-yellow to pinkish speckled fish. Caption: we increase the health and quantity of fish populations,

A polar bear is in its natural habitat. Caption: It's just an incredible experience.

Rolling sand dunes with powerlines in the foreground. Caption: Beneath these dunes lies 65% of all known oil reserves.

Waves at sunset looking towards an industrial platform held above the water. Caption: Worldwide, it makes up about a third of the energy supply.

Earth as seen from space. Caption: (narrator) Planet Earth is awash in renewable energy.

Cross section of water with a concentration of a substance in part of it. Caption: Blooms can also deplete oxygen from the water,

Person wearing a hard hat kneeling next to a metal fence working on something. Caption: (male narrator) Tamar's area of specialty is water engineering,

People in scuba gear placing and carrying metal cages at different places on the ocean floor. Caption: in various locations along the reef.

Front view of George, a C, G, I white garbage truck with headlights that look like eyes and a mouth across the front bumper exits a garage. Caption. I help keep this city clean.

Earth as seen from space. Caption: However, such changes take place gradually.

Large truck dumping a load of trash into a landfill. Caption: What happens to it when we throw it out?

An aerial photograph. A line leads from Andros Island to N C coast and then to Prince Edward Island. A second line trace back from Pince Edward Island.

Large white polar bear laying on snow. Arrow pointing to fur with Caption: Thick Hide. there's an incredibly thick hide

Large sea turtle swimming down towards the ocean floor. Caption: All this makes them great swimmers,

Wolf in natural habitat. Caption: allowing steady pursuit of prey over long distances.

A penguin jumping from ice.

Person working on a large vertical sheet of ice. Caption: For them, time on the ice is part of the job.

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

Person holding a small partially transparent cube with wires and other equipment attached. Caption: and are developing microbial fuel cells

White bird with gray speckles nesting on the ground. Caption: they check nests, count eggs, and keep records

Underwater view of billowing plume of pollutant. Caption: cleaning up oil spills and purifying water.

People in scuba gear above a coral reef holding a clipboard. Caption: tracking a coral killer.

Person pumping fuel into a vehicle. Caption: (narrator) And there you have it: synthetic diesel fuel.

People on the deck of a boat, one at a large winch. Caption: Their mission: to learn all they can about large lakes.

Person holding a small crab. Caption: could wreak so much havoc in the marshes of Cape Cod?

Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.

People standing by a muddy stream bed. One person holds something in his hand while another holds a net and looks at the find. Caption: (male narrator) Just another day at the office for biologist Vance Vredenburg.

Fog rising off a lake. Caption: (narrator) The team watches a switch in progress on Swan's Island.

Coral with a patch of color and the rest white. Caption: and it can kill multiple species of corals.

Two people moving a flat of plants. Caption: are reimagining the future of farming --

Aerial view of a building with plants covering most of the surface area of the roof. Caption: (man) It's a roof of living plants.

Person holding a cylindrical piece of ice. Caption: This one is based on the ratio of heavy to light hydrogen.

Illustration of an energy source on a grid. Caption: and will power more than 650 homes.

People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.

Green landscape with a hillside in the background. A small industrial installation is present. Caption: They don't know where to get information they can trust.

Semi-trailer with large cylindrical tanks labelled as Hydrogen, Compressed. Caption:(narrator) Hydrogen is hailed as the fuel of the future --

Earthworm in a person's hand. Caption: are actually invasive species.

Electrons in a microscope. Caption: You have to look at them using an electron microscope.

Floating metal measurement instrument in deep blue water. Caption: thrown overboard to analyze water samples

Rocky shoreline with green algae coating some of the rocks. Caption: how the blooms affect fish stocks and oyster beds,

Large industrial machine moving across a cultivated field. Caption: could precisely communicate an entire crop's water needs.

Closeup cross-section of a large tree with many rings. Caption: This is a cross-section of a redwood tree.

Man looking at leaves in a stream. Caption: They're looking at stream health,

Mosquito on a person's skin. Caption: it would scare them away.

Woman loading a jug onto a cart. Caption: If we can lower the cost of the filtration,

Dirty water with bubbles and PVC pipes. Caption: and reused again and again in a sustainable loop.

3D graphic of a bright yellow cylindrical object with fins underwater. Caption: Barth is studying low oxygen, or dead zones,

Green, rolling grasses. Caption: marshes like this one seem fated to shrink.

Solar panels on a roof top. Caption: But even now, they say solar energy is ready for prime time.

Smoggy city street crowded with vehicles. Caption: China is the 2nd largest energy consumer in the world,

A large warehouse with a sloping roof. Caption: (narrator) At the Center for Aerosol Impacts

Electrical meter box attached to the outside of a building. Caption: All the entries have to be zero-energy homes,

Setting sun as seen through tall wild grasses. Caption: to harness the sun's energy to make renewable fuels.

The sun seen closely enough to show the light and dark pattern of the surface. Caption: Their mission: put the heat of the sun to work,

Person handling a partially ripe strawberry still on the vine. Caption: "What can we plant? What's the rotation strategy?"

SupraSensor measuring tool. Caption: to detect nitrate fertilizer in soil.

Person holding a lid. Caption: sees bio-inspired surfactants gaining market share,

Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials

Person filling a glass from a faucet. Caption: our risk of contracting some form of cancer would go up.

People gathered around two troughs filled with water. One person is reaching into the water and two others are handling a small object. Caption: studies mussels' role in their environment.

Two water recycling machines. Caption: and take gray water recycling up a level.

Closeup of a circuit board. Caption: The same platform can be used to monitor the environment.

An illustration of African penguins with the outline of Africa in the background. Caption: is undergoing a rapid and alarming decline. On screen text: Biodiversity news, Scientists save penguin chicks. African Penguin, Spheniscus demersus.

Two toads, one light brown, the other darker brown with light spots. Caption: Maybe temperatures got too warm for these toads.

A photo of a small harbour.

Person holding the head of a snake on the ground with a metal rod and holding the snake just behind the head with their hand. Caption: The snake charmers will burn the venom glands.

Oil drilling platforms in the ocean with many ships in the water around them. Caption: but they can make money because of our energy policy.

Coral with an inset magnification showing overlapping small red dots. Caption: The color of the coral reflects millions of tiny algae

Coral of various shapes and a range of colors. Caption: and these are the corals we call "super corals."

Person swimming over a coral reef in shallow water. Caption: of biology that exists on the coral reef.

Ash from an eruption filling the air. Caption: An eruption could be the largest natural disaster

Person kneeling on the ground next to a pile of dark material. Caption: which sells fashion items made from recycled garbage.

Treetops in the foreground and rolling mountains in the distance. Caption: The atmosphere consists of a mixture of gases.

Closeup of a ship's bow surrounded by gray ocean. Title card reads, "The Arctic's Changing Climate and Economics."

Red earthworms. Caption: are more likely to develop resistance.

A farmer carries a small pouch in his field. Caption: Heath farms without using toxic chemicals.

A person holding a handful of mollusks that are tagged with unique ids. Caption: That's good for the future of that species

Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana

Green leafy foliage partially covering the ground. Caption: was this carpet of baby Kankakee mallows.

An illustration of carbon emitted from factories. Caption: Black carbon was spewed into the air from coal factories.

A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.