Earth & Sky

Students will develop and apply decision-making skills to various environmental risk scenarios including wildland fires, natural hazards, and threats to coral reefs and mangrove swamps.

Related Earth & Sky Shows

• Black-footed Ferret
• Amphibians in Decline
• Asteroid Frog Extinction
• Climate change + human behavior = ?
• Climate scientist:
• Coastal population keeps growing, despite risks
• Contrails' effect on warming
• Drier climate predicted for African Sahel
• Fleets of smart robotic planes spot wildfires
• Global warming said to slow trade winds
• Kerry Emanuel on the scientific worldview
• Kerry Emanuel speaks out on hurricanes
• Louisiana's wetlands face post-Katrina trouble
• Melting permafrost's impact on climate assessed
• Meteorologist explains urge to chase hurricanes
• Models forecast hurricanes, avert disaster
• More contrails might increase climate warming
• Ozone hole lingers despite CFC ban
• Ozone layer recovering, slowly
• Satellite data aids volcano prediction
• Satellites spy
• Scientists assess health of U.S. coral reefs
• Scientists correct errors in climate data
• Scientists explore hurricanes from inside
• Scientists seek answers to berg breakup riddles
• Sea level rise rate doubled since 1850
• Secrets of ozone loss high in sky
• Snow study aids adaptation to warmer world
• Studies show rapid rate of Greenland ice melt
• Survival odds slim for stranded marine mammals
• Technique may yield better hurricane forecasts
• The North Pole was here
• Tsunami expert says to expect the unexpected
• Unmanned airplanes help fight fires
• Volcano map tracks Earth's hot spots
• Wetlands vital to post-Katrina restoration
• Wetter climate predicted for African Sahel
• What causes a hurricane to move?
• Wildlife expert tracks Arctic pollution
• Will Antarctica shrink or grow as climate warms?
• Will global warming make Antarctica icier?
• Year 2005 warmest in a century
• Ballast Water
• Barrier Islands
• Bay Shorebirds
• Black Guillemots
• Blue Frontier
• Born to be Wild
• Can the Ozone Hole Be Fixed?
• Celebrated Jumping Frog
• Chesapeake Bay Meadows
• Climate and Streams
• Climate Change Extinctions
• Climate Models
• Cod Gone?
• Coral Communities
• Corals and Climate
• Crossing Over
• Crowded Planet Ecology
• Crown Fire
• Deep Sea Coral
• Delicate Journey
• Early Rivers
• Endangered Animals
• Fire Cycle
• Fire Map
• Fire Regime
• Fire Wax
• Fish Farm
• Florida Panther
• Florida Scrub
• Fourteeners
• Frog Survival
• FROSTFIRE
• Great Fish Baseline
• Green Thunderstorms
• Hayman BAER
• Hayman Recovery
• Hurricane Rain
• Hurricanes and Climate
• Low Islands
• Marine Biomass
• Marine Protected Areas
• Marine Reserves I
• Mountain Diversity
• Native Fire
• Natural Drainage
• Natural Selection Now
• Ocean Connections
• Ocean Council
• Odd Weather
• Oregon Spotted Frogs
• Pacific Hurricanes
• Permafrost Fires
• Porcupine Caribou
• Pothole Reserves
• Prairie Potholes
• Recovering Condors
• Salmon Flow
• Salt Ponds
• Scallop Drag
• Shade Grown Coffee
• Sound PBDEs
• Sound PCBs
• South Atlantic Hurricanes
• Sylvia Earle Part 2
• Winter Flounder
• Winter Bird Watches
• Whale Longevity
• Whale Emergence
• The Dead Zone
• Three Sisters Volcano
• Tigers in Trouble
• Tracking Sea Turtles
• Vent Life
• Venus Flytraps
• Fewer aerosols may step up global warming
• African dust can rip potential hurricanes apart
• African dust storms huge, but how do they form?
• Agricultural runoff could harm Gulf of California
• Warning system speeds word of toxic algae
• Antarctic changing rapidly, scientists unsure why
• Are humans causing stronger hurricanes?
• Researchers believe herbicide may stunt ocean life
• Satellites used to track whales in Arctic
• Earth-orbiting satellites aid cancer study
• Just a few degrees of warming affects coral reefs
• Measuring a devasting earthquake fault
• Earthquakes linked to volcanic activity
• Major ecosystem shift in Arctic seas
• Expert says fisheries can recover, in time
• How fast and how much glacial melting?
• Humans affect animal adaptation to warming
• Hurricane eye
• Is Earth's ozone layer recovering?
• After Katrina, 3,500 vessels sunk or stranded
• Lakes under Antarctic ice linked to sea level rise
• Ocean cooling a global warming
• Experts hopeful overfishing can be solved
• Pacific dead zones linked to winds, climate
• Phytoplankton aid in greenhouse gas control
• Rapid and dramatic sea ice shrinkage in Arctic
• Satellite survey gives coral reef big picture
• Remember
• Saving the Earth's 'last dinosaurs'
• Sea life in the wake of a hurricane
• Sea turtle tracking reveals migration routes
• Space-based lightning studies could save lives
• Satellites help reveal bison migration
• Which West African storms will become hurricanes?
• Why so few hurricanes in 2006?
• Wildfire maps will aid in planning, firefighting
• Smoke from wildfires found to warm atmosphere
• Small temperature changes, big effects on life
• Warming climate sparks wildfires, say scientists
• Scientists try to spot fires before they start
• Global warming cools parts of Earth
• Satellites help forecast floods and landslides
• Satellite tracking shows dust suppresses hurricanes
• High noctilucent clouds may signal human impact
• World rainfall harder, more frequent than thought
• A cholera ‘early warning system’
• More rain from tropical storms than hurricanes
• New tsunami warning system may save lives
• Ocean ‘deserts’ are expanding, say scientists
• Grasslands soak up carbon to slow climate change
• Robot aircraft do dirty work of science
• ‘Keep the science as science’ on climate change
• Study finds human and natural Arctic warming
• Shipping lanes moved to save whales
• First-ever map of human impacts on oceans
• Earth warming might speed ocean circulation
• Sylvia Earle speaks for the sea
• Sylvia Earle speaks of global ‘hope spots’
• Mystery ocean dead zones in Pacific
• Scientists to review Alaska seal status in 2008
• Atmospheric gas study shows carbon rise in 2007
• Scientists discover ocean current ‘stripes’
• Study predicts more intense, but fewer, hurricanes
• Ice cores hold Antarctica’s climate secrets
• Record high melt in Greenland high places in 2007
• Lakes under glaciers a key to sea level rise
• Arctic change ‘faster than people imagined’
• Arctic seals vulnerable to fast pace of change
• Antarctic snowfall not as heavy as models predict
• Clear skies spell trouble for Arctic sea ice
• Forest service expert gives U.S. forest overview
• U.S. forests face threat from development
• Forest managers grapple with rapid change
• Incentives encourage forest stewardship
• Climate change speeding flux of forest ecosystems
• Carbon offsets could be boon to private forests
• Scientists monitor coral bleaching in Caribbean
• Tropics expanding
• Scientist: greatest warming at higher latitudes
• Protected coral reef found to recover
• Scientists seek link to climate change in Arctic haze
• Monitoring global flooding from space
• Researchers see a human impact on wind, rain
• Warming ocean surface threatens marine food chain
• More on unprecedented melt in West Antarctica
• Dirty snow a culprit in Arctic warming?
• Extreme summer warming possible by 2080
• Night shining clouds no longer just near poles
• Recipe for organic haze requires invisible particles
• Moving sea ice feels like ‘walking on the moon’
• Reindeer herders, scientists team up on climate change
• Mystery of Antarctica's huge, ghostly mountain range
• Polar ice hit where it hurts, says expert
• Greenland and Antarctica ‘big gorillas’ in climate change
• Sea ice may disappear, but native words linger
• Warming in Antarctica’s polar desert
• Arctic explorer connects poles to the world