"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen — without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk […]
How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces us to deep-subsurface microbes: tiny organisms that live buried meters deep in ocean mud and have been on […]
Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fellow and his colleagues explore how coral reef fish behave, socialize and affect their ecosystems. Learn more about how fish […]
The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes. He's spent years studying the defenses we use to avoid thinking about the demise of our […]
Climate change is real, case closed. But there's still a lot we don't understand about it, and the more we know the better chance we have to slow it down. One still-unknown factor: How might […]
What if our bodies could help grow new life after we die, instead of being embalmed and buried or turned to ash? Join Katrina Spade as she discusses "recomposition" — a system that uses the […]
As we keep pumping co2 into the environment, more of it is liquifying in the oceans, causing drastic modifications in the water's chemistry. Triona McGrath researches this procedure, referred to as ocean acidification, and in […]
Oceanographer Kate Stafford decreases us into the sonically rich depths of the Arctic Ocean, where ice groans, whales sing to interact over vast distances– and environment modification and human noise threaten to modify the environment […]
Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from unique minutes in Earth's history– from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Perishing to the heavy, harmful air of the future […]
Nature is splendidly plentiful, varied and mystical– but biological research study today has the tendency to concentrate on just 7 species, consisting of rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver […]
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