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Water Pollution & Conservation
There are 56 videos in this category and 43 videos in 4 subcategories.
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Ages: 7 - 18
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Discover why air and water is important to human beings. Learn how water and air become polluted and find out what one can do to reduce pollution and conserve water and air in this interactive game for all ages.
April 24, 2012 at 12:23 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean -- thus driving even more innovation in "oyster-tecture." Orff shares her... vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit. Kate Orff asks us to rethink “landscape”—to use urban greenspaces and blue spaces in fresh ways to mediate between humankind and nature. (10:00)
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May 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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Explore Research at the University of Florida: UF environmental toxicologist Nancy Denslow explains her interest in research and collaboration to learn about toxins affecting the health of fish. (01:01)
October 28, 2012 at 06:52 AM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Explore Research at the University of Florida: UF environmental toxicologist Nancy Denslow researches how chemicals in water affect the health of animals and, ultimately people. (02:16)
October 28, 2012 at 06:05 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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In this video: "According to the only book I currently have on my desk, everyone poops and that’s okay. What’s less okay though is when there’s nowhere for that poop to go- something people in Victorian era London found out first hand when all of the... sewage they’d pumped into the Thames dried up and caused a stench that spurred London’s City Press to note- “Gentility of speech is at an end—it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it.” " (10:26)
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November 25, 2017 at 11:07 AM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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DC Water operates skimmer boats near the Anacostia Yacht Club. We pick up nearly 400 tons of trash and other debris that washes into the river every year. We're just doing our part to keep our city clean and hopefully, make our rivers 'swim-able' in ...the future. (02:03)
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April 19, 2018 at 06:29 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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The conservation group American Rivers says the Potomac River, that runs through Washington, is the most endangered river this year in the United States. The organization says that pollution in the Potomac is decreasing water quality, threatening mar...ine life and will become worse if Congress rolls back national clean water protections. VOA's Deborah Block reports. (02:45)
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April 19, 2018 at 06:34 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away? Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these di...sposables present to our world. (04:06)
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May 28, 2018 at 07:40 PM
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Ages: 11 - 18
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Plastic pollution poses one of the biggest known threats to the ocean, influencing all ecosystems from beautiful coral reefs to abyssal trenches, eventually .accumulating in our own food. Learn more about how to upend the current system of produce-us...e-discard, and transition to a system which promotes reuse and re-purposing of plastics. (03:10)
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May 28, 2018 at 07:19 PM
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Ages: 10 - 18
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These plastic bottles illustrate how humans discard a shocking amount of plastic waste into the environment. (01:23)
May 28, 2018 at 07:24 PM
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