In order to be able to grasp the concept behind the term environmental, one must be able to define the term environment. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the conditions that surround someone or something; the conditions and influences that affect the growth, health, progress, etc., of someone or something is called environment.
As an individual branch, environmental science emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. The creational spark was as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill catastrophe along with the publication of Rachel Carson's book called ‘Silent Spring’ concerning the rising of the environmental issues. In order to resolve environmental issues, several branches were combined with the purpose of producing complex analysis on concerning issues. These branches include ecology, biology, physics, chemistry, zoology, mineralogy, oceanology, limnology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, geography and geodesy.
Related branches include environmental studies and engineering. The first one is concerned with the human factor and the very perception of environment. The second branch more focused on the development of the technology necessary for the overall improvement of environmental quality.
Now that we have clarified the term and the science behind it, let us move to the content of this particular category. The task at hand here is to give you the profound knowledge on the various environmental issues that we are facing today.
Discover what it is like to live in the most polluted place on Earth. The residents of a coal-mining town of Linfen in China are forced to live in a smog engulfed area with dangerously polluted rivers.
Can you imagine what would be like to live in a completely pollution-free world? Is it possible to have transportation with zero emission, an absolutely renewable energy sources and non-polluted drinking water? Find the answers to these questions in a documentary that we provided for you.
Explore the origin of life itself and learn what you can do to prevent the ongoing transformation of Earth from a place we call home to an inhabitable planet. Certain scientists predict that in the matter of ten years natural resources will be utterly spent and the climate drastically changed.
Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. And everyone is consuming more water - whether it’s to make soda, microchips or cattle feed. But our reservoirs are running dry.Investors are buying w...
More people around the world are fleeing from climate change than from war. If human-induced climate change continues at the current rate, the World Bank warns that by 2050 there could be as many as 1...
Experts believe that plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues. Rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal w...
Scientists have talked about it for quite some time. Global temperatures keep rising and rising, and we talk about the potential dangers.But what would exactly happen if global temperatures rise to a ...
This documentary takes you to Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region on Earth with the lowest recorded temperature -71°C (-95°F) and the average winter temperature -50°C (-58°F).Here, daily life is...
Mangroves are a group of trees and shrubs that live in the coastal intertidal zone. Mangrove forest in Loxahatchee, Florida. There are about 80 different species of mangrove trees. All of these trees ...
Globally, it’s estimated that we mine as much as 50 billion metric tons of sand every year to build our roads, bridges, skyscrapers, homes and more.Rapid urbanization around the ...
For many species the possession of territory is the ultimate goal. With good territory comes plentiful food, access to shelter, attraction to mates and safety to raise offspring - ...
Nature is just amazing. It hides mysteries that we will probably never understand. Most natural outcomes in flora and fauna are absolutely brilliant.In this documentary, we see thi...
Around the world, beaches are under threat. Severe storms and sea levels are rising. Huge quantities of sand are being washed away into the ocean.Even entire islands are in existen...
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope. In this documentary, we exami...
On a mission to share their discoveries with the world, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew uncover the benefits hidden within aloe, Argan oil and rosemary.We have talked ...
In the past several years, environmentalists and green movement activists have warned about the potential of China’s love for meat.The country came by its love of meat only recen...
The avocado is a new superfood and its cultivation has been increasing worldwide, including in southern Portugal. But avocado plantations suck up the water in the already drought-s...
Huge areas of tropical rainforest are being destroyed to make charcoal for barbecues. The global deforestation is leading to growing problems.Nigeria and the DRC Congo - two of Eur...
Throughout the world, roses speak an unmistakeable language. They have touched and seduced mankind for thousands of years, while their names and varieties reflect contemporary hist...
Silverback gorillas live high in the mountains in protected parks in Africa. Sometimes they are referred to as mountain gorillas. Adult males are called Silverbacks because of the ...
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.In this documentary, we take a...
Pantanal is the largest wetland on the planet, located in the heart of Brazil. Located in the South of the Amazon Basin, this nature heaven spreads across the borders of Paraguay a...
What is fracking and why it is bad? Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. ...
Have you ever wondered where do the clothes you wear come from? Who makes them? Who manufacturers them? Do you think about the people who make them? Or about the impact the industr...
Do you know that fashion generates 4% of the world’s waste each year? That is more than 92 million tons, more than toxic e-waste.85% of all textiles thrown away in the US, w...
How concerned are you about climate change? Do you believe in climate change at all? Well, if you don’t this documentary should serve as a wake-up call.This is the reality ...
Permaculture is a set of design principles centered on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the patterns and resilient features observed in natural ecosy...
5G is the fifth generation wireless technology for digital cellular networks that began wide deployment in 2019. Same as previous standards, the covered areas are divided int...
One in nine people lack access to clean water. Approximately 2.2 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water facilities. And this is happening on a pla...
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s oceanic division. The Pacific extends from the Arctic Ocean in the North to the Southern Ocean in the south.To under...
Nowadays, we know the Sahara Desert as a place defined by undulating sand dunes, unforgiving sun, and oppressive heat.But imagine this for a second. Some 10,000 years ago, the...
One of the biggest challenges for environmental activists is taking care of plastic. We all know that plastic pollutes our soil, air, and even our ocean and sea waters.In the...
The 2010 British-Brazilian documentary explored Jardim Gramacho, which is the world’s largest garbage landfill. In 2010, the team decided to make a documentary about the ga...
What is now a small village in India, was once a capital of an empire stretching across the whole of Southern India. Such is the story of Hampi, a small village in India that...
The Lion is the King of the Jungle. We’ve all lived with that assumption and story. One of the five big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the Felidae family, the l...
Siberia is a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia, with terrain spanning tundra, coniferous forest and mountain ranges including Altai, Ural, and Verkhoya...
The Venus Project, Founded by Jacque Fresco, proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be. According to the Project, we as humans are mostly responsible for what ...
If you thought weapons of mass destruction are the most devastating force, you are wrong. It is all about the weather. Just think about what a natural disaster can look lik...
The eagle is widely regarded “the Queen of the skies”. But what makes the Eagle the Queen of the Sky? Well, a National Geographic documentary takes a look at the life of ...
When people think of a scary dinosaur, the T-Rex is the first to come on mind. The T-Rex was the biggest dinosaur, the ruler if you like. Just as the lion is nowadays conside...
The commonly known African Lion has been listed as “vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List Since 1996. The population of the species declined by more than 40% since the early 1...
For many people in the world, clean water is a commodity. But in some areas of the world, clean water is a luxury many cannot afford. Which is why water is one of the most pr...
Elephants are one of the most marvelous creatures walking on our planet. They are the largest land animals on Earth. You can easily recognize them by their characteristic lon...
When people think of Brazil, the first association that comes to mind is football. As in, some of the best soccer stars were born in Brazil. But the country is much more t...
Wild West Cork is a series of films produced by Cojo Films looking at the marine wildlife in the West Cork coastline. The third episode of the series takes a look at the h...
In Episode 2 of the Wild West Cork, we take a look at the short-beaked common dolphin. A species of the common dolphin, the sort-beaked dolphin is energetic and boisterous an...
The new series, called Wild West Corke show the wildlife around the West Cork. The West Cork is a cultural region in Country Cork, Ireland, with the main difference being tha...
You can be anywhere you like at this moment. But you are watching a video in front of your computer. What is stopping you to be where you want to be? The short documentary...
When you think of deadly snakes, you often think of venomous boa species. The green anaconda, or the common anaconda, is non-venomous boa species. However, even though its ve...
The Amazon river is the largest river by discharge of water in the world. According to some authors, the Amazon is the longest river in length. The length of the Amazon is 4,...
The great mysteries in life are beneath us. And what is above us? The ocean and the sea world have always been a mystery for mankind. For years, we’ve been trying to explor...
Can we turn Sahara, one of the biggest deserts in the world into a rainforest? That is the question you would be asking yourself after watching Antonio Donato Nobre’s TED t...
Dan Pacholke is a long-time officer, and served as the administrator of the Washington State Department of Corrections. In February 2016, he resigned as a secretary of the St...
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