Topic: Watersheds
Snow study aids adaptation to warmer world
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk (9-12)
Lush meadows of aquatic grasses once carpeted the edges of Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. But now Chesapeake Bay is threatened by algae blooms and nutrient runoff. More — today on Earth and Sky.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
On this date five years ago, the United Nations declared that the world’s human population had reached six billion. Today — Paul Ehrlich talks about water issues and a growing population — on Earth and Sky.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
For years New York City had unusually pure drinking water. But in the 1980s, heavy development upstream led to its degradation. Discover a conventional response — and a wild alternative — on today’s Earth and Sky.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests (9-12)
Most scientists agree that our climate will change in the coming years. A scientist talks about how that change might affect rivers — and the people who need them — on today’s Earth and Sky.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Activity 14: Renewable or Not?
- Activity 29: Rain Reasons
- Activity 31: Plant a Tree
- Activity 38: Every Drop Counts
- Activity 44: Water Wonders
- Activity 48: Field, Forest, and Stream
- Activity 56: We Can Work It Out
- Activity 57: Democracy in Action
- Activity 71: Watch on Wetlands
- Activity 73: Waste Watchers
- Activity 84: The Global Climate
- Activity 85: In the Driver’s Seat
- Activity 86: Our Changing World
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
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