Nature Smart Library: Climate Change

Films on Demand: 24:32
This video introduces leading climate expert John Sweeney, who discuses the impact of climate change on increased rainfall, more frequent storms, and rising sea levels. It also looks at researchers from Geological Survey Ireland who are working to establish how vulnerable we are to future sea level rises and identifying what we can do in order to adapt and protect our coastal communities and unique archaeological heritage from these climate change-driven geohazards.

Films on Demand: 51:58
Ade travels through the stunning water world of Bangladesh's Ganges delta, before heading into the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. The Bangladesh delta is stunning and lush - but it's also under threat from the increasingly extreme weather that climate change is causing... In Bhutan, Ade discovers how melting Himalayan glaciers are affecting the entire world. He also meets a yak herder and hears how hard life is getting for normal people there. But after speaking with the prime minister of Bhutan, Ade discovers how Bhutan isn't just carbon neutral, it's carbon negative.

Alexander Street Video: 2:32
Trees and forests are known as the lungs of the Earth – because they absorb and store carbon. But when they’re burned or cut down, the C02 they release contributes to global warming.

Alexander Street Video: 2:20
By monitoring changes in C02 levels over thousands of years, scientists know that Earth’s temperature is rising. The biggest cause of global warming? Our reliance on harmful fossil fuels.

Alexander Street Video: 1:06:00
During his journey into America’s climate crisis, CNN's Bill Weir interviews the nation’s top climate change experts and leaders who help explain the wide-ranging threats communities will face as climate change continues unabated.

Films on Demand: 51:31
For the final leg of his journey, Ade heads to Scandinavia. Starting in the frozen islands of Svalbard and heading through Sweden and Denmark, he sees how winter temperatures have risen by an astonishing amount in the Arctic, takes a look at how Copenhagen is attempting to become carbon neutral by 2025, and learns how valuable peat is in our fight against climate change. Along the way, he meets someone preparing for the apocalypse in a Swedish forest and talks with Greta Thunberg about how younger generations are determined to turn things around.

ProQuest Video: 16:14
If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like

Films on Demand: 52:00
In this series, Ade Adepitan travels to places on the frontline of climate change to see how life is being affected right now. But he'll also scour the globe for solutions to climate change - the natural and technological fixes that can help us slow climate change and adapt to the changes already taking place. Ade begins in the stunning Solomon Islands, and then travels down the east coast of Australia - from the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania.

Films on Demand: 11:12
In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention. "The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. "All we have to do is to wake up and change."

Films on Demand: 3:08
A geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology researches teeny tiny microorganisms and how they interact with the environment.

Alexander Street Video: 2:42
Since the 1970s, our oceans have absorbed 90% of the excess heat produced by CO2 emissions. As our oceans get hotter, and sea levels continue to rise, our world is sure to look very different in the future.

Films on Demand: 8:47
Climate change is now recognised as the defining threat facing the planet. So why has so little been done to tackle it?

(NASA) From the unique vantage point in space, NASA collects critical long-term observations of our changing planet.

(United States Environmental Protection Agency) Understanding and addressing climate change is critical to EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment. EPA tracks and reports greenhouse gas emissions, leverages sound science, and invests in America to combat climate change.

(World Bank Group) Climate change, poverty, and inequality are the defining issues of our age. The World Bank Group is the biggest multilateral funder of climate investments in developing countries. And we intend to go further in helping countries reduce poverty and rise to the challenges of climate change.

(World Health Organization) Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human health. It affects the physical environment as well as all aspects of both natural and human systems – including social and economic conditions and the functioning of health systems. It is therefore a threat multiplier, undermining and potentially reversing decades of health progress.

(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Climate change affects the environment in many different ways, including rising temperatures, sea level rise, drought, flooding, and more. These events affect things that we depend upon and value, like water, energy, transportation, wildlife, agriculture, ecosystems, and human health.

(European Environment Agency) Our climate is changing because of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Despite notable emission reductions over the last decades, the EU must transform production and consumption systems to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

(NASA) The Earth Information Center consolidates data and insights on how Earth is changing from across the US federal government. Earth.gov is also the gateway to other interagency cooperative efforts for our planet, like the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center. Discover how these data are being used to prepare for climate change and mitigate, adapt and respond to environmental challenges across the country.

(IPCC) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

(United Nations) Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun’s activity or large volcanic eruptions. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.