👁Meet methane, the invisible climate villain
🧠Marcelo Mena
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A landfill on fire doesn't only emit a horrid stench — it has devastating consequences for the environment, too. The culprit is methane, an often underestimated greenhouse gas produced in large part by food systems, organic waste and yes, cow burps. Biochemical engineer Marcelo Mena explains the source of this sneaky pollutant, why its emissions need to be cut in half by 2050 — and what you can do to help.
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#climate_change #Countdown #pollution #agriculture #food #environment

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👁Can we hack photosynthesis to feed the world?
🧠Steve Long
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on the planet, helping produce the food we eat and the air we breathe. Crop scientist Steve Long thinks it could be more efficient — and he's intent on giving it a boost. He shows how hacking photosynthesis could help feed the world all while reducing climate change.
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#climate_change #agriculture #food #environment #sustainability #science #DNA #farming

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👁A playbook on financing climate solutions
🧠Nili Gilbert and David Blood
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Tackling climate change costs a lot of money — and the financial sector is key to getting that money flowing. In a wide-ranging conversation, sustainable investment leaders Nili Gilbert and David Blood discuss where progress is being made on climate solutions, where capital still needs to move faster and why this is an unprecedented opportunity for sustainable growth.
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#climate_change #finance #money #environment #global_issues #sustainability #investing #science #Countdown

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👁Enough red tape — we need to say yes to clean energy
🧠Rich Powell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Climate innovation leader Rich Powell dives into the bureaucracy, bottlenecks and not-in-my-backyard attitude preventing the US from achieving its green energy goals, warning that we need about 10,000 new clean energy projects to be built in the US this decade if we're to reach net zero by 2050. Learn more about what's needed to fight NIMBYism, get serious about the energy transition — and get out of our own way.
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#climate_change #Countdown #sustainability #renewable_energy #energy #electricity #environment #policy #business

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👁Is alternative meat the recipe for a healthier planet?
🧠Tao Zhang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A Chinese saying goes, "There's no pleasure in eating without meat." And the data backs that up: every year, China consumes 26 percent of the world's meat and 45 percent of its seafood — numbers that could grow alongside rising incomes. Impact investor Tao Zhang shows why getting Chinese consumers to switch to plant-based alternatives is vital to tackling climate change and explores how it's also a massive business opportunity to bring tasty, affordable new proteins to market.
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#food #climate_change #sustainability #china #environment #business #entrepreneur

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👁Why does this flower smell like a dead body?
🧠Daniel Nickrent
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Deep inside the Sumatran rainforest, a carrion fly descends, guided by the scent of its favorite place to lay eggs: rotting animal carcasses. But when it lands, it isn’t on liquifying flesh, but instead on the world’s biggest, and perhaps strangest, flower— Rafflesia arnoldii. So, how does this giant flower grow? Daniel Nickrent explores the parasitic tendencies of the foul-smelling plant. [Directed by Igor Ćorić, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #plants #science #ecology #environment

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👁The Herds, a vast act of theater to spark climate action
🧠Amir Nizar Zuabi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Theater has the power to transform the most pressing issues of our time from news stories into human stories, says director and playwright Amir Nizar Zuabi. Recounting his work on the journey of Little Amal — a 13-foot puppet symbolizing the refugee experience — Zuabi unveils his newest project: "The Herds," a vast theatrical production of animal puppets that will "migrate" from West Africa to Norway in 2025, aimed at sparking climate change awareness.
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#art #environment #theater #climate_change #activism

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👁Why ocean currents are slowing — and what it means for you
🧠Susan Lozier
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Ocean waters are constantly on the move, traveling far distances in complex currents that regulate Earth's climate and weather patterns. How might climate change impact this critical system? Oceanographer Susan Lozier dives into the data, which suggests that ocean overturning is slowing down as waters gradually warm — and takes us on board the international effort to track these changes and set us on the right course while we still have time.
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#ocean #nature #climate_change #environment #science #technology #fish #marine_biology #maps

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👁Can nanoparticles help fight hunger?
🧠Christy L. Haynes
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A game-changing solution to the global food crisis could come from something so tiny you can't see it with the naked eye. Nanomaterials chemist Christy Haynes describes her team's work designing nanoparticles that could protect plants from disease and crop loss, helping farmers reap abundant harvests and grow food that will make its way to markets and dinner tables.
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#science #chemistry #food #nature #biology #plants #environment #farming #agriculture

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👁How poop turns into forests
🧠Ludmila Rattis
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Did you know the world's largest tropical forest is partly formed by seeds emerging from poop? Ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals the surprisingly fruitful benefits of letting nature take care of its own business, sharing how the digestive habits of tapirs — pig-like creatures that roam Amazonia — spread seeds that help regenerate the forest and promote climate resilience worldwide. (Even nature's waste is put to good use!)
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#animals #trees #climate_change #ecology #environment #biology #science #biodiversity #Countdown

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