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Nature & Ecology

Discover the beauty of Nature and the Animal Kingdom, and the measures needed to safeguard it

What If the World Lost Oxygen for Five Seconds?
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What If

What If the World Lost Oxygen for Five Seconds?

Imagine if all the Earth’s oxygen disappeared. Not forever, just for say, 5 seconds? Would we just hold our breath? What would happen to the atmosphere? What would happen to the environment? Here’s what would happen if the world lost oxygen for just 5 seconds. With your support we can make our show better! Join our Patreon community: http://bit.ly/whatif-patreon Transcript and sources: https://insh.world/science/what-if-the-world-lost-oxygen-for-five-seconds/ Watch more what-if scenarios: Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-HhCwYD7rc&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJCzxwmCq0NNpYq9N9wyb2l The Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfuJyVkMH_g&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJno6oFF9nLGuwXNGYHmE8U Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3bBO05fpU&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIeRY3JtgXgoGqSEB7kDdKO Your Body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmXR46TrbA8&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTJNsV9FFeNAKl2ySsHj8GZO Humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdCDQIyXGnw&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIFnvmOeWbv-Mt8zFxSCSvZ About What If: Produced by Underknown in Toronto, Canada, What If is a mini-documentary web series that takes you on an epic journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities. Join us on an imaginary adventure — grounded in scientific theory — through time, space and chance, as we ask what if some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence were different. Follow what-if on Instagram for bonus material: https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show/ Suggest an episode: http://bit.ly/suggest-whatif Follow the show on Facebook Watch: https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere." — Carl Sagan Feedback, inquiries and suggestions: https://underknown.com/contact
Why the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Don't Mix
BRIGHT SIDE

Why the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Don't Mix

💡 Our shop for unique and stylish Bright Side MERCH (open globally!): http://bit.ly/2OJubyA When you look at the seas and oceans on the map you might think that they just flow into each other. It seems like there’s only one big ocean, and people just gave different names to its parts. Well, you’ll be amazed at how vivid the borders between them are! The border between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is like a line between 2 worlds. It looks as if the two oceans meet at an invisible wall which does not let them flow into each other and mix their waters. Why on Earth does it happen? We know for sure there is no invisible wall inside, and water is water. So what could interfere with its mixing? Other videos you might like: If You See Square Waves, Get Out of the Water! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdb5h9a-eQ& What Would a Trip to the Mariana Trench Be Like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeW1DU05j7U& It Takes Hundreds of Lives a Year, But Only 5% Know About It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IFaBH2vdk& TIMESTAMPS: Water can be different too! 0:40 What are haloclines? 1:03 The most spectacular clines on the planet: - The North and Baltic Seas 4:38 - The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean 5:04 - The Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean 5:16 - The Surinam River and the Atlantic Ocean 5:36 - The Uruguay River and its afflux 5:43 - The Rio Negro and Solimões Rivers 5:58 - Mosel and Rhein 6:19 - Ilz, Danube, and Inn 6:30 - Alaknanda and Bhagirathi Rivers 6:48 - Irtysh and Ulba 6:56 - The Jialing and Yangtze Rivers 7:11 - Irtysh and Om 7:20 - Chuya and Katun rivers 7:20 - The Green and Colorado rivers 7:50 - The Rhone and Arve rivers 8:10 #oceans #rivers #brightside SUMMARY: - Pacific oceans have different density and chemical make-up, the level of salinity and other qualities. One can see by their color that they are far from being the same. - Haloclines – borders between waters with different salinity – are the most spectacular, and this is what we see when the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans meet. - Haloclines appear when water in one ocean or sea is at least 5 times saltier than in the other. - Another important difference between the two oceans' water is the strength of molecules' connection, or surface tensile strength. - Maybe they could gradually start mixing with time, but as the flows in them have opposite directions, they just don’t have time to do this. - There are also thermoclines – borders between water of different temperatures, like the warm water of Gulf Stream and much colder North Atlantic Ocean. - The North and Baltic Seas meet near the Danish city of Skagen. The water in them does not mix because of different density. - The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet at the Strait of Gibraltar and have a different density and salinity, so their water does not mix too. - The Uruguay River and its afflux meet in Misiones province in Argentina. One of them is cleaned to be used in agriculture, and the other gets almost red because of loam during rainy seasons. - Mosel and Rhein meet in Koblenz, Germany. Rheine has lighter water and Mosel – darker. - Alaknanda and Bhagirathi Rivers meet in India. Alaknanda is dark and Bhagirathi is light. - The Jialing and Yangtze Rivers meet in Chongqing, China. The Jialing is clean and the Yangtze is brown. - The water of the Chuya has an unusual cloudy white color here and looks dense and thick. Katun is clean and turquoise. Flowing into each other they form a single two-colored flow that does not mix for some time. - The Rhone and Arve rivers flow into each other in Geneva, Switzerland. The Rhone is a pure river that flows out of the lake of Geneva, the Arve is cloudy as it gets its water from glaciers of the Chamonix valley. Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightgram/ 5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/
Why Egypt's lifeline is drying up | Nile Conflict | Earth Explained!
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Terra Mater

Why Egypt's lifeline is drying up | Nile Conflict | Earth Explained!

🌍 Watch our entire Earth Explained! series: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3CjNbCdQe956XnnhX6Nxg24oAcYvgrm ▶️ Did you know that America's lifeline is also drying up? Colorado River Conflict Watch: https://youtu.be/yNzc-hbX124 Other Mideastern countries try to mitigate water scarcity issues through innovative technologies turning sea water into fresh water without pollution: https://youtu.be/KdFIHecZDfc The River Nile. One of the world’s most ancient and legendary waterways, bringing life to otherwise inhospitable regions of Egypt. ↠Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/TerraMaterOfficial?sub_confirmation=1 But the Nile is slowly dying, its tributaries and channels drying up and threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on its nourishing waters. Some of this is the natural cycle of the river – parts of the Nile have dried up before, making entire cities like ancient Meroe vanish. But a major construction project upriver is further endangering the life of the river. We explore what’s happening and look at the possible solutions to this impending tragedy. Don’t forget to leave us a like and a comment, and subscribe to our channel for more content about our amazing planet! #terramatters Story by Philip Jaime Alcazar: https://www.youtube.com/user/philipalcazar Producer: Philip-Jaime Alcazar Assistant Producer: Katrin Blaß Executive Producer: Eva Schmidt Voice-Over: Sophie Kozeluh Graphics: Joerg Eisenprobst Audio Mix: Stefan Fiedler Original Production: “Nile – The Ultimate River”, a Terra Mater documentary directed by Harald Pokieser A Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH Production Contact: social (at) terramater.at #terramatters #earthexplained
The In-depth Story Behind a Climate Myth
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CDN

The In-depth Story Behind a Climate Myth

Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or "the world's scientists", or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous. For a transcript of this video including links to some of the sources, please visit http://climatediscussionnexus.com/videos/the-97-consensus-slogan/ To support the Climate Discussion Nexus, subscribe to our YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egdS4871949youPFyvW_A) and our newsletter (at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/), like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ClimateDN/), follow us on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/ClimateDN), and make a monthly or one-time pledge at http://www.climatediscussionnexus.com/donate/ Contents of Video 00:00 - Start 00:37- Barack Obama Quote in 2013 - 97% Consensus 01:40 - How Many Scientists Were Surveyed? 02:10 - You don't need a Poll to know... 03:28 - A close look at what survey data we have 04:00 - Naomi Oreskes claim in 2004 - 928 Articles 04:26 - Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 - all scientific journals for 10 years and sample of 10% = 928 Articles 05:13 - Other Surveys - 2009 University of Illinois survey 07:25 - John Cook in 2013 - examined 12,000 papers - referred to by Obama 08:40 - How many of the studies endorsed that humans caused most Global Warming? 09:06 - Follow up study by David Legates found that only 41 of the 64 papers actually endorsed that Global Warming is mostly man made. 09:52 - Evidence of drafting press releases before they did the research 10:32 - What do Climate Experts really think? The American Meteorology Society 11:20 - Netherlands Environmental Agency - survey polluted by non experts 12:11 - No further ahead 12:46 - Science Academies support consensus and demand action without surveys of their members 13:25 - Couple of other studies - spun wildly by non-scientists 13:56 - Bullying Campaign to stifle scientific debate 15:13 - Political pressure for Climate experts not to question impending doom
Behind-The-Scenes Conversation: The Magic of Flowers with Katie Hess + Louie Schwartzberg
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LOTUSWEI

Behind-The-Scenes Conversation: The Magic of Flowers with Katie Hess + Louie Schwartzberg

Discover the new book by author + flower alchemist Katie Hess & award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg! Dive in to learn about their love of Mother Nature and the healing power of flowers, flower elixirs + flower essences. Begin your FLOWEREVOLUTION today :: http://www.lotuswei.com/book Are you ready to bloom? Learn more about flower essences + connect with LOTUSWEI at: http://www.lotuswei.com #flowerevolution *** LOTUSWEI creates a worldwide ripple effect of positivity, joy + clarity. Our flower essences + elixir-infused aromatherapy products dissolve static, accelerate personal growth + magnify unique strengths. We create exquisite sensory experiences, events + lifestyle products that help people see + actualize their full potential. By reconnecting people with the vastness of nature, they reconnect with the vastness of themselves. We teach various forms of meditation + mind-training for unraveling challenges + stress, along with encouraging an approach of self-acceptance, self-love + authenticity. *** CONNECT WITH LOTUSWEI: EXPLORE OUR FLOWER ESSENCES: http://www.lotuswei.com JOIN US AT AN EVENT: https://www.lotuswei.com/experiences GET A FLOWER READING OR BODY TREATMENT: http://www.sancenterphx.com COME TO A LOTUSWEI RETREAT: https://www.earthaura.com LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST: https://www.lotuswei.com/podcast FOLLOW LOTUSWEI ON SOCIAL MEDIA: INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/lotuswei FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/lotuswei KATIE HESS LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiehess TIKTOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/bhk1nW/ PINTEREST: http://www.twitter.com/lotuswei TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/lotuswei
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