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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg

Timelines of Everyone

This is a timeline of the life of Greta Thunberg and her rise as a global climate activist. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's lone school strike for the climate in 2018 evolved into a worldwide movement, inspiring millions to take action against...Show More
Three Ways We Can Work Together to Address Environmental Issues

Three Ways We Can Work Together to Address Environmental Issues

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

From the stone age to the smartphone age, it’s in our nature to want to support each other to achieve a bigger goal. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society today, and by working together we can find brilliant...Show More
How Your Wardrobe Could Help Protect the Planet

How Your Wardrobe Could Help Protect the Planet

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Hear from Zaqiya Cajee, founder of SwopItUp, a non-profit organisation to help teens to run clothes swaps at schools, as well as Nayan and Alicia on how you can stay stylish and get the most out of your clothes - especially when on a budget!
How to Use Your Voice to Make a Difference

How to Use Your Voice to Make a Difference

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Throughout history, young people have played a key role in bringing about change by voicing their concerns. Greta Thunberg was 15 years old when she started protesting outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. Sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen from...Show More
Three Water Saving Tips to Try at Home

Three Water Saving Tips to Try at Home

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

According to Water UK, 46% of people believe their household uses 20 litres of water day, but it’s actually almost 142 litres per person. This is a major problem, because according to non-profit organisation Waterwise, many parts of the UK will...Show More
Simple Hacks to Slash Your Energy Use

Simple Hacks to Slash Your Energy Use

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

We don’t often think about how energy gets into our home and where it comes from. Sources like coal, fossil fuels, natural gas, wind, solar or biofuels are required to generate energy, and some of them are kinder to the earth than others.
How to Inspire Others to Care about Climate Change

How to Inspire Others to Care about Climate Change

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

There are lots of ways you can encourage others to get on board with protecting the planet. The easiest is to simply start talking to your friends and family about the subject. Even better, why not talk about the solutions that already exist?
How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Your Devices

How to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Your Devices

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Teenagers Amy, Nayan, Simeon and Noah share their tips on how you can reduce your e-waste and energy use.
Four Ways to Give Back to Nature through Rewilding

Four Ways to Give Back to Nature through Rewilding

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

No matter what space you have, you can give back to nature. Hear from Amy Bray, founder of environmental charity Another Way, and her friends who are sharing their tips on how you can rewild your home and local area.
How to Fight Climate Change from Your Kitchen

How to Fight Climate Change from Your Kitchen

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

When we waste food, we waste these resources. Food waste also contributes to climate change when it rots in landfill by producing greenhouse gas emissions. So, how do we cut down the environmental impact of what we eat while still enjoying the...Show More
Can Your Hobbies Be Kinder to the Planet?

Can Your Hobbies Be Kinder to the Planet?

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Having a hobby that brings you joy can make you feel good and be a chance to learn new skills. Whatever you like doing in your spare time, there are things you can try to make it have a more positive impact on the planet.
Easy Family Activities to Feel Closer to the Planet

Easy Family Activities to Feel Closer to the Planet

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

By conserving wildlife and protecting our ecosystems, we're making sure that future generations can enjoy our beautiful world and all of its incredible species. Encouraging more contact with nature, especially during childhood, can help to...Show More
Five Ways to Eat Well for You and the Environment

Five Ways to Eat Well for You and the Environment

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

We cook it. We eat it. We create new memories with it. It’s loved by people all over the world. Yet food waste is still such a huge problem. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), if food waste were a country, it would be the...Show More
Can Creativity Save the Planet?

Can Creativity Save the Planet?

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Creativity can change the world. Poems can shift our perspectives and films can inspire us to take action. Whether through a song or a photograph, our ideas matter and we can encourage others to think differently about the world.
How to be a Zero-Waste Hero

How to be a Zero-Waste Hero

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

What if everything we buy is designed to last a very long time, and when it’s no longer usable, we can get rid of it easily or it can be turned into something new?
How to Drive Change in Your Community

How to Drive Change in Your Community

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Action

Sometimes it can feel impossible to believe you, as an individual, have influence over how environmental issues like climate change are addressed. But it is possible and it’s been done before. Hear from a group of young people how they are...Show More
How to Create a New Sustainable Story

How to Create a New Sustainable Story

BBC Bitesize: The Regenerators - Green Scenes

These fun videos feature an improv troupe putting on different types of performance with a green theme and using upcycled objects. Use the videos to inspire your own performances.
The Age of Dinosaurs

The Age of Dinosaurs

Timelines of Everything

Dinosaurs roamed on Earth for around 165 million years and existed for around three distinct periods. A catastrophic event 66 million years ago, which wiped out more than half of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs, is believed to be caused by...Show More
Thunderstorms

Thunderstorms

Wind Currents and Thunderstorms

A thunderstorm is accompanied by lightning, thunder and heavy rain. Thunderstorms normally occur in the summer and spring seasons. When a thunderstorm threatens, get inside a house or a vehicle and keep the windows closed.
3 Secrets About Ancient Earth Hidden in Marine Fossils

3 Secrets About Ancient Earth Hidden in Marine Fossils

SciShow

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!
Introducing Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

Introducing Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

Introducing Elements, Compounds and Mixtures

Matter exists as elements, compounds and mixtures. But what are the differences between these three forms? Using straightforward images and diagrams and commonplace examples, this video introduces students to how elements, compounds and mixtures...Show More
Women in Science

Women in Science

Ideas Roadshow

Three celebrated physicists provide their unique perspectives on the issue of gender in the sciences. Featured are: Claudia de Rham, Jenny Nelson, Joanna Haigh (all at Imperial College London) and one renowned mathematician Ian Stewart...Show More
A Brief History of Plastic

A Brief History of Plastic

Clean up Challenge

For centuries, billiard balls were made of ivory from elephant tusks. But when excessive hunting caused elephant populations to decline, they began to look for alternatives. John Wesley Hyatt took up the challenge. In five years, he invented a...Show More
Arctic Warming

Arctic Warming

Climate Change Solutions

The oceans absorb 90% of the heat from greenhouse gasses, causing ever more ice to melt.
How More Water Vapour Triggers Record Storms, Unsurvivable Heat

How More Water Vapour Triggers Record Storms, Unsurvivable Heat

Climate Change Solutions

Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas: more of it means more extreme weather.