Inside Biosphere 2: The World’s Largest Earth Science Experiment
Craig goes to Biosphere 2–the largest closed system ever created–and learns about the science of recreating the Earth’s ecosystems. How do we build a space colony? Can we re-create nature? Was Biosphere 2 a failure?
Special Thanks to:
John Adams and the University of Arizona
http://b2science.org/
Post Series: United States
- 1.Acid Rain Eating Washington, D.C.
- 2.Drones Over Dolphin Stampede and Whales off Dana Point and Maui
- 3.Poverty in America Documentary 2017
- 4.Pollution in USA
- 5.When Your Job Is Saving The Ocean
- 6.Is It OK to Let These Wolves Go Extinct in the Wild? | National Geographic
- 7.This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water
- 8.Backyard aeroponics: self-sustaining farm for Wisconsin cold
- 9.Does Recycling Actually Help?
- 10.Midway, a plastic island
- 11.FGM happened to me in white, midwest America
- 12.CNN exclusive investigation: Kids for sale
- 13.New York’s Big Green Clean
- 14.Homeless Babies And Toddlers Endure Tough, Long Days On San Diego Streets
- 15.Income inequality: Hunger down the block from wealth
- 16.The Netherlands and United States: Tackling Climate and Energy Challenges through Innovation
- 17.Rob Greenfield’s Simple Sustainable Apartment
- 18.How to Grow Food for Free in the City
- 19.My Near Zero Waste Lifestyle
- 20.This NYC Store is an Environmentalist’s Wonderland
- 21.The Call of the Land: Meet The Next Generation of Farmers | Short Film Showcase
- 22.One Man’s Mission to Revive the Last Redwood Forests | Short Film Showcase
- 23.Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change
- 24.Garbage Homes – EarthShips
- 25.Earthships: Creating Eco-Unique Homes
- 26.Earthship Tour & Instructions
- 27.Poverty in America Documentary 2017
- 28.Employed but still homeless, working poor say “Homelessness can happen to anybody”
- 29.What quality of life can minimum wage workers afford?
- 30.American Workers Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Today’s Economy
- 31.Living Paycheck to Paycheck | The New York Times
- 32.Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars
- 33.Hard times generation: homeless kids
- 34.Gun control and the statistics behind America’s love affair with guns | The Economist
- 35.Guns in America vs. The rest of the world
- 36.Gun Nation
- 37.America’s gun problem, explained in 90 seconds
- 38.The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts
- 39.Natural Burials and Green Funerals
- 40.A burial practice that nourishes the planet | Caitlin Doughty
- 41.Bios Urn Stories
- 42.10 Steps To Growing Most Of My Food
- 43.China Leaving United States Behind On Green Energy Jobs | On Assignment with Richard Engel | MSNBC
- 44.CarbonLite: Inside the World’s Largest Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant
- 45.Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood
- 46.Why paid maternity leave is a smart business move
- 47.Pandas in the spotlight
- 48.Panda School: (EXCLUSIVE) How the National Zoo Trains Its Panda Cub | National Geographic
- 49.These Kids Live In Mexico But Cross The Border Daily To Go To School In The US
- 50.The Hispanic child migrants desperate to reach America
- 51.Caring for undocumented children who cross the border
- 52.Who are the children crossing the US border? – BBC News
- 53.Why Organic, Sustainable Farming Matters | Portrait of a Farmer
- 54.Why does almost half of America’s food go to waste?
- 55.Food-Waste Rebel Wants You to Eat Ugly Food | National Geographic
- 56.Food Too “Ugly” to Sell Becomes a Feast for 5,000 People | National Geographic
- 57.ARISE Music Festival and Sustainability
- 58.Is it Trash or Is It Art? Recycled Arts Festival
- 59.National Student Walkout | Protest Gun Violence
- 60.The Accidental Environmentalist
- 61.The New Environmentalists – Festival Version
- 62.Is there hope for conservation? | James Borrell | TEDxQMUL
- 63.See this baby polar bear grow up in under 2 minutes
- 64.Fair Trade doesn’t mean fair pay for tea workers in India
- 65.Fair Trade: The Power of the Consumer
- 66.Glass Recycling
- 67.How It’s Made: Recycling Car Batteries
- 68.I have one more chromosome than you. So what? | Karen Gaffney | TEDxPortland
- 69.Frank Stephens’ POWERFUL Speech On Down Syndrome
- 70.Girl Tells the World That Down Syndrome Is ‘Not Scary’
- 71.Minimalist/Zero Waste House Tour (Family of 4 + 2 Dogs)
- 72.Zero Waste Grocery Shopping At Wal-Mart!!!
- 73.Reusing What You Already Have | Zero Waste Alternatives
- 74.How to Store Produce without Plastic
- 75.What is Greenwashing?
- 76.I SOLD ALL MY THINGS
- 77.How to Avoid Greenwashing
- 78.Which Brands Are Green Washing on Target Shelves???
- 79.Do Cities Need More Green Roofs? | NPR
- 80.Why Hundreds of Sea Otters Died in the Pacific | National Geographic
- 81.The Sea Otter’s Enchanted Forest | America’s National Parks
- 82.WindTamer Turbines – The Most Efficient Technology
- 83.Plastic-eating enzyme could fight pollution
- 84.NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped Into The Ocean – You Won’t Believe Why!
- 85.This high-tech farm grows veggies in a warehouse
- 86.Cities of the Future May Eat Plants Grown in the Air
- 87.How A Company Fits Five Acres Of Farmland Into Shipping Containers
- 88.Single-Stream Recycling — Leading the Way to Zero Waste
- 89.Downsize Your Life: Why Less is More | Rita Wilkins | TEDxWilmingtonWomen
- 90.The Art of Letting Go | The Minimalists | TEDxFargo
- 91.Understanding the Value of Benefit Corporations
- 92.Public Benefit Corporations vs. B Certified: A New Model for Sustainable Capitalism
- 93.LAS VEGAS: Living in underground tunnels
- 94.Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
- 95.CNN Explains: Fracking
- 96.What Is Fracking? | National Geographic
- 97.The fracking debate: Terry Engelder at TEDxPSU
- 98.Water, Fracking, and Human Health: Eliza Griswold at TEDxColumbiaSIPA
- 99.Let’s transform energy — by leaving natural gas in the ground: Jonathan Deal at TEDxStellenbosch
- 100.Shale oil production in South Texas: Tom Tunstall at TEDxSanAntonio 2013
- 101.The importance of banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking): Siena Lorraine at TEDxVillageGate
- 102.Fractured Fracking Facts: Laura Cunningham at TEDxChemungRiver
- 103.American Eagle – Nature Documentary (HD)
- 104.9 Facts You Didn’t Know About Bald Eagles
- 105.How Do Homeless Women Cope With Their Periods? | NSFWomen
- 106.US Denies Climate Change, Promotes Fossil Fuel Energy During UN Conference
- 107.What EPA‘s Scott Pruitt means for environmental policy and regulation
- 108.Environmental groups say Trump’s climate policies will reverse progress
- 109.Pruitt dismisses climate science, environmental policy in flux
- 110.5 major changes to US environmental policy in 2017
- 111.How the high demand for almonds is affecting California
- 112.Is it nuts to grow almonds during a drought?
- 113.What California’s Almond Farms Really Look Like | Originals | msnbc
- 114.Why Almond Milk Is Terrible
- 115.The Damage Done: The Unwanted (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Episode 1
- 116.The Damage Done: The Unwanted (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Episode 2
- 117.The Damage Done: The Unwanted (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Episode 3
- 118.The Damage Done: The Unwanted (Philadelphia, PA) | Episode 4
- 119.This Is What An Ivory Bust In New York City Looks Like (HBO)
- 120.Where Does New York City’s Trash Go? | Living City | The New York Times
- 121.Inside New York City’s Water Towers | The New York Times
- 122.88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
- 123.China’s Waste Ban Is Causing A Trash Crisis In The U.S. (HBO)
- 124.New York City Housing Shortage
- 125.Uneven Growth NYC | Documentary
- 126.Shortage of housing units in the New York City raises costs
- 127.Why a severe housing shortage means reduced wages for workers
- 128.Housing Crisis in America – Richard Wolff & Walter South
- 129.Gray Seals In The Wild | JONATHAN BIRD’S BLUE WORLD
- 130.Sea Turtle Rescue! | JONATHAN BIRD’S BLUE WORLD
- 131.Saving the Sturgeon | JONATHAN BIRD’S BLUE WORLD
- 132.Ocean Camouflage and Color | JONATHAN BIRD’S BLUE WORLD
- 133.50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything | Short Film Showcase
- 134.How San Francisco Is Becoming A Zero Waste City
- 135.China Leaving United States Behind On Green Energy Jobs | On Assignment with Richard Engel | MSNBC
- 136.Beekeeping For Beginners and Beekeeping Basics – Off Grid Living
- 137.How To Set Up a Beehive
- 138.Tips for Getting Started in Beekeeping – Brushy Mountain Bee Farm
- 139.We can save the bees together: Sarah Red-Laird at TEDxBend
- 140.No bees, no food: John Miller at TEDxUNC
- 141.The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
- 142.Inside Biosphere 2: The World’s Largest Earth Science Experiment
- 143.Deep Sea Fish Farming in Geodesic Domes: Upgrade
- 144.The Dirty Secret at the Bottom of the Great Lakes: Oil & Water
- 145.People Are Making Big Money Kicking Detroit Residents Out Of Their Homes (HBO)
- 146.Squatters Are Taking Over Las Vegas’ Abandoned Houses (HBO)
- 147.The battery that could make mass solar and wind power viable | Dispatch
- 148.Transparent Solar Panels | Michigan State University
- 149.The solar cell that is transparent like glass. Keynote Prof. Richard Lunt at BMW Welcomes.
- 150.A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
- 151.Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
- 152.A ‘clear path’ to solar power – Science Nation
- 153.Transparent solar panel developed by MSU absorbs invisible ultraviolet rays
- 154.How Aerofarms’ vertical farms grow produce
- 155.Aquaponic farming saves water, but can it feed the country?
- 156.Farming underwater: 3D solutions for land and sea | Earthrise
- 157.Talk to Al Jazeera – Beyond meat: The end of food as we know it?
- 158.Driving Change – earthrise
- 159.Rising sea levels will put U.S. homes at risk in near future
- 160.What If Your Home Was Slipping Into the Ocean? | National Geographic
- 161.Sea level rise: Miami and Atlantic city fight to stay above water
- 162.Iowa Wind Power | National Geographic
- 163.An Urban Farmer in the City
- 164.Monsanto: The Company that Owns the World’s Food Supply
- 165.Monsanto CEO: Discussion about GMOs
- 166.Everything Wrong With Monsanto
- 167.Monsanto vs Farmers
- 168.Mexico builds wall to keep out Monsanto’s GMOs
- 169.Farmers ditching Monsanto as GMO backlash grows
- 170.The 15-Year-Old Suing the Government over Climate Change
- 171.As Donald Trump Denies Climate Change, These Kids Die Of It | The New York Times
- 172.What Can Beijing Learn From Los Angeles’ Pollution Problem?
- 173.Will climate change turn Miami into a ‘future Atlantis’?
- 174.How Climate Change Is Gentrifying Miami Housing | This New World
- 175.Sea level rise: Miami and Atlantic city fight to stay above water
- 176.Inside the Lab That Could Solve the World’s Plastics Problem (Unsolvable: Episode 1)
- 177.Sea Shepherds finds a dead sample of the most endangered marine mammal in the world
- 178.Fracking Hell: The Untold Story
- 179.How Fracking Has Changed One Woman’s Life in Colorado
- 180.Texas Is on Fire With Polluting Flares From Fracking | NBC Left Field
- 181.??Fracking in America | Fault Lines
- 182.Shale cowboys: fracking under Trump – Docu – 2017
- 183.Fracking: The real cost of shale in Texas | Guardian Investigations
- 184.FRACK US: the dangers of gas fracking.
- 185.“Men here are 100% worse… They’re animals.” – Life in a North Dakota oil & gas boomtown – BBC News
- 186.Why North Dakota’s oil fields are so deadly for workers
- 187.Oil, Corruption and Death on the Reservation | Times Documentaries | The New York Times
- 188.‘In the Land of Hell’: Life as a Female Trucker in North Dakota | Op-Docs | The New York Times
- 189.Sex and the Oil City: The dark side of North Dakota’s oil boom (RT Documentary)
- 190.India: Where old clothes go to get a new life
- 191.Why it will take more than basic recycling to cut back on plastic
- 192.Loss of Chinese export market drives new ideas for repurposing recyclables
- 193.How This U.S. City Ended Up in a Dire Recycling Crisis | Reports | NowThis
- 194.How Native Americans Are Saving Vegetables from Extinction
- 195.Matchmaking for Species Survival
- 196.See Brooklyn’s Wild Parrots
- 197.Fast Fashion’s Effect on People, The Planet, & You | Patrick Woodyard | TEDxUniversityofMississippi
- 198.America’s Dopamine-Fueled Shopping Addiction
- 199.Farms under the sea could feed the world in 2050
- 200.Future of Food: Farming in the age of climate change
- 201.Cities of the Future May Eat Plants Grown in the Air
- 202.Will climate change turn Miami into a ‘future Atlantis’?
- 203.This Virginia Island Is Literally Sinking Into The Sea (HBO)
- 204.Will the traditions of tiny Tangier Island survive or sink?
- 205.The Drowning Islands Of Virginia | Originals | msnbc
- 206.Tangier Island: Among the First U.S. Climate Refugees?
- 207.Tangier – the vanishing island
- 208.??Can Tangier Island be first climate change casualty in the US? | Al Jazeera English
- 209.US takes Yellowstone grizzly bears off endangered list
- 210.Always Endangered – The Story of Grizzly 399
- 211.Yellowstone Grizzly Bears: A Success Story
- 212.NATURE | The Good, The Bad, and the Grizzly | On the Hunt |
- 213.NATURE | The Good, The Bad, and the Grizzly | Prey | PBS
- 214.California wants its grizzly bears back
- 215.Grizz Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Grizzly Bears? | Short Film Showcase
- 216.Cohousing communities help prevent social isolation
- 217.Co-housing—Community at its Best | Erica Elliott | TEDxABQ
- 218.Co-housing—Community at its Best | Erica Elliott | TEDxABQ
- 219.How fast fashion adds to the world’s clothing waste problem (Marketplace)
- 220.The Fiber Side of Textile Recycling
- 221.Politics of Climate Change | Years of Living Dangerously
- 222.Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming
- 223.he Truth About Animal Testing for Cosmetics
- 224.Watch people react to photos of animal testing for cosmetics
- 225.Why Do We Still Test Cosmetics on Animals?
- 226.California’s ban on animal-testing could remake cosmetics industry
- 227.Animal Rights Extremists: Terrorism vs. Protest
- 228.Microdevices that mimic human organs could replace animal testing
- 229.Vanderbilt Advances “Organ-on-a-Chip” Research
- 230.Human Organs-on-Chips as replacements for animal testing with Donald Ingber
- 231.Introduction to Organs-on-Chips
- 232.Drug Testing Shake Up with Organs-on-a-Chip
- 233.Engineering human organs onto a microchip | Dan Huh | TEDxPenn
- 234.Your body in a microchip: Geraldine Hamilton at TEDxBoston
- 235.Did you know there’s a talking gorilla?
- 236.A Conversation With Koko
- 237.Remembering the human side of Koko the gorilla
- 238.NYC lawmakers consider ban on fur in the fashion mecca
- 239.Patagonia: The Paradox of an Eco-Conscious Company
- 240.Are dockless scooters environmentally friendly? (Bird and Lime)
- 241.The Circuit: Tracking America’s Electronic Waste
- 242.How e-Waste Is Recycled | GreenShortz
- 243.The explosive problem with recycling old electronics
- 244.Brexit: The Hidden Danger of Chlorinated Chicken. With Stephen Fry
- 245.This Natural Gas Plant Has Achieved Zero Emissions
- 246.Report: climate change a growing target of false news stories
- 247.Climate Denial In The Classroom
- 248.Person on the Street Reactions: Tobacco Impact on the Environment — Tobacco Free CA
- 249.Cigarettes–Environmental Impacts & Solutions
- 250.Detroit’s Urban Beekeepers are Transforming the City’s Vacant Lots | Short Film Showcase
- 251.Black Market Kidney Transplant | Underworld, Inc.
- 252.Deepwater Horizon disaster, five years later
- 253.The Magnetic Wand That Cleans Oil Spills: Upgrade
- 254.Solar power could be the answer to aging electrical grids
- 255.Can an entire town run on solar?
- 256.Debate over solar rates simmers in the Nevada desert
- 257.Scientists warn 2019 could be the hottest year on record
- 258.Solar power is finally within reach, but not for long
- 259.Damien Mander talks Akashinga at The Explorers Club, New York
- 260.Damien Mander Is Waging War On Poaching | Rich Roll Podcast
- 261.What Is the Difference Between a Raven and a Crow
- 262.10 Odd and Interesting Facts About Crows and Ravens (North America)
- 263.5 Reasons To Like Crows (American Crow)
- 264.You’ve Heard of a Murder of Crows. How About a Crow Funeral? | Deep Look
- 265.Gift giving crows – World’s Weirdest Events: Episode 5 – BBC Two
- 266.Soaring intelligence and surprising warmth of crows
- 267.SciShow Talk Show: The Science of Corvids & Dick Cheney Masks
- 268.Indonesia returns millions of tonnes of waste to Australia
- 269.America’s Political Battle | A New Climate
- 270.This Family’s Fight Against Climate Change Starts At The Top Of Centuries-Old Trees | Nightly News
- 271.A climate reckoning in the heartland
- 272.Farmers reckon with the idea of “climate change” amid a changing climate
- 273.Ancient Ice Reveals Earth’s Climate History
- 274.Media Takes Heat For Offering Climate Change Doubters A Voice
- 275.The Mainstream Media Has To Cover Climate Change as a Crisis
- 276.Scientists continue to issue urgent warnings about climate change | 7.30
- 277.Trump 2020 Campaign Pushes Support for Plastic Straws | NowThis
- 278.The last straw: Seattle’s drinking straw ban
- 279.Goodyear’s designing a tire that can literally breathe
- 280.How drought and the fight for water is splitting the state of California
- 281.California Makes Years-Long Climb From The Depths Of Exceptional Drought
- 282.What’s Causing the California Water Crisis? | NowThis
- 283.#ClimateFacts: The Worst Polluter
- 284.US military is world’s ‘single largest producer’ of greenhouse gases – report
- 285.How Military Pollution Could Cause The Next Water Crisis
- 286.The Vietnam War’s Environmental Legacy
- 287.Why Are Wild Parrots Disappearing in Miami? | Short Film Showcase
- 288.Einstein the African Grey Parrot showed off her vocabulary skills with a 200 sounds and words
- 289.What Is Regenerative Farming?
- 290.A Regenerative Secret – Kiss The Ground
- 291.Carbon Farming: Harnessing The Power of The Soil
- 292.Nebraska retiree uses earths’s heat to grow oranges in snow
- 293.Growing food with zero heating in Massachusetts’ winter
- 294.Here’s How Green Energy Could Create Millions of Jobs
- 295.David Attenborough: it’s ‘extraordinary’ climate deniers remain in Australian politics
- 296.Greta Thunberg speaks as she sets sail for U.S. climate summit
- 297.The Zero-Emissions Boat That Will take Greta Thunberg to the U.S.
- 298.Greta Thunberg sets sail on zero-carbon Atlantic voyage
- 299.16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump would be a “waste”
- 300.What is “Carbon Neutrality”?
- 301.Paper Recycling Best Practices – Why you shouldn’t “wishcycle”
- 302.Contamination Series – #1 Contamination
- 303.0:08 / 3:19 Contamination Series – #2 KW Plastics (CC)
- 304.Contamination Series – #3 Education and Technology
- 305.What is Recycling Contamination?
- 306.Why you’re recycling wrong
- 307.NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke
- 308.Modeling the Future of the Greenland Ice Sheet
- 309.Greta Thunberg’s speech at New York arrival
- 310.Greta Thunberg joins hundreds of teenagers in climate protest in New York
- 311.Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives in NYC to Fight “Biggest Crisis Humanity Has Ever Faced”
- 312.Americans waste up to 40 percent of the food they produce
- 313.The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food?
- 314.America versus France on Wasted Food
- 315.Can conservation save our ocean? | The Economist
- 316.How coral restoration works
- 317.Bringing Coral Reefs Back To Life | Dr. David Vaughan | TEDxBermuda
- 318.A Coral Reef Revival | The Atlantic
- 319.“We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
- 320.Greta Thunberg meets with US lawmakers to discuss climate crisis – watch live
- 321.Greta Thunberg urges all to join Friday’s climate strike: ‘See you on the street!’
- 322.Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future honoured by Amnesty International – watch live
- 323.Greta Thunberg testifies to Congress over climate crisis – watch live
- 324.Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the power of a movement
- 325.How the Greenland ice melt will expose buried US nuclear waste within decades｜Climate Change
- 326.The Green New Deal, explained
- 327.What is the ‘Green New Deal?’
- 328.Explaining the Green New Deal
- 329.On Contact: Civil Disobedience to Stop Ecocide
- 330.School children sue US government over climate change
- 331.Juliana v. United States: The Constitutional Implications of Climate Change
- 332.The Juliana Kids Use Legal Action to Fight Against Climate Change | NowThis
- 333.Greta Thunberg to world leaders: ‘How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood’
- 334.Greta Thunberg ‘is right to be furious’ | The Pledge
- 335.Why The United States Is Turning To Recycling Robots
- 336.Can Everything Be Recycled? Welcome to TerraCycle | One Small Step | NowThis
- 337.How to Recycle Your Old Electronics | One Small Step | NowThis
- 338.Here’s What Happens To Your Recycling | One Small Step | NowThis
- 339.Why Zero-Waste Grocery Shopping Matters | One Small Step | NowThis
- 340.One Month Without Single-Use Plastics | One Small Step | NowThis
- 341.What Is Composting and How Does it Work? | One Small Step | NowThis
- 342.Why You Should Turn Your Lawn Into a Food Garden | One Small Step | NowThis
- 343.Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn’t have to.
- 344.Hope for dwindling northern white rhinos with artificial insemination
- 345.Coca-Cola’s plastic secrets | DW Documentary
- 346.Mental Health and Well-Being, including Eco-Anxiety
- 347.Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure? | Jonathan Patz | TEDxOshkosh
- 348.Clearer water, cleaner air: the environmental effects of coronavirus
- 349.What Happens to Animals Inside America’s Wet Markets?
- 350.Doctor calls NYC wet markets a ‘time bomb’
- 351.Michael Moore’s Question For Americans: How Do We Want To Live After This Pandemic?
- 352.Michael Moore Sings Us A Message Of Hope
- 353.How Amazon Paid $0 Federal Income Tax in 2018
- 354.G7 AGREE GLOBAL CORPORATE TAX EXPLAINED // G7 Agree Global Corporate Tax, will it stop Tax Havens?
- 355.How tax breaks help the rich
- 356.Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?
- 357.How American CEOs got so rich
- 358.Inside the IRS leak that revealed billionaires’ tax avoidance strategies
- 359.How Americans React to Alarming IPCC Climate Report
- 360.Stunning video shows town leveled after tornado
- 361.A Conversation Hosted by Emma Watson at The New York Times Climate Hub