The Antarctic is one of the least explored places on the planet. For the first time ever a marine biologist has ventured to unexplored…
In this animation we break free from the ESO Supernova, rise above Garching, and then Munich and the Earth itself. The viewer accelerates out…
The primary drivers of ocean mixing are the winds and the tides. But could the movement of marine creatures also be playing a part?…
This is a deep dive into the complex, beautiful phenomenon of tides with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice.
In this edition of ESA's Eart from Space, Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over southern Siberia and the world’s largest freshwater lake: Lake Baikal.
Shooting in beautifully immersive 360 video, directors Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee follow acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton as he explores the mossy, green heart…
Artist Páraic McGloughlin saw Google Maps as more than just a pastime, by painstakingly capturing very specific road layouts and agricultural features, he was…
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web TV virtual studios. In this edition, Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Japan’s…
The ocean is facing its greatest ever challenge - overfishing, pollution and climate change are all threatening the health of a resource on which…
Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank:…
With rising populations, the manner in which we farm must imbibe technology to feed this aggressive demand. Hear from an entrepreneur who is pinning his…
Wooden skyscrapers are cropping up in cities all around the world. Thanks to cross-laminated timber, these structures are just as resilient as buildings made from…
Most glacier surges, broadly defined as a flow at least 10 and often hundreds of times faster than a glacier's usual pace of advance, are…
To turn troublesome carbon dioxide into useful chemicals, scientists have been taking a leaf out of plants' book. They’ve now developed a complete ‘artificial photosynthesis’…
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to provide the most comprehensive…
The last officially recognized epoch on Earth, the Holocene, began at the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Now, climate change,…
Urbanisation is happening faster today than at any time in history. By 2030 nearly 9% of the global population will live in so-called megacities—cities with…
The astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station take pictures of Earth out their windows nearly every day, and over a year that adds…
Founded in 2010 by a team of ex-NASA scientists, Planet Labs is driven by a mission to image the entire Earth every day and make…
With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, they begin a traverse on Dec. 21 along a section of the…