Videos

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  Spotlight: Do Not Touch the Frog

  Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, ecologist and National Geographic photographer Mark Moffett...

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  What Biodiversity Really Means

  At the present rate of extinction, some biologists predict that we could lose half of the species on the planet by 2100. Every individual’s very existence, every single day, is...

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  Spinning Spider Yarns

  Mark Moffet is an ecologist and wildlife photographer by trade, but he is also naturally gifted in spinning yarns. Here, Moffet shares exceptional stories about...

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  Let’s Talk about Frogs

  There are roughly 1.75 million identified frog species in the world, and biologists estimate that there are between 5 and 50 million species that are still completely unknown to...

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  The Future of Food

  Land is a finite resource. Land is the source of all our food. Today, 1.02 billion people already go to bed hungry. Two billion more suffer from malnutrition. By 2050, we will...

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  Life Needs Water

  There is an entire ecosystem that thrives in dark corners of the ocean, miles below the surface.  Huddled around deep-sea hydrothermal vents, the bacteria, tubeworms, clams, and...

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  Cool Job: The Medical Ecologist

  Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Medical ecologist Dickson Despommier describes the Vertical Farm Project, a movement to promote urban renewal while...