Videos - Science in moving pictures
Lectures, explainer films, image films, and television features
For a complete list, please switch to the German version of this page. Listed here are videos in English language only.
Recorded lectures from our scientists
Sustainability Science Summit 2025: Panel 1: “Perspectives of International Sustainability Science”
with Anna-Katharina Hornidge (German Institute of Development and Sustainability), Karen O’Brien (University of Oslo), Hans-Otto Pörtner (Alfred Wegener Institute), Markus Reichstein (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry), chaired by Bernd Siebenhüner (University of Oldenburg).
Date: February 19, 2025
Date: February 19, 2025
Why AI could improve early warning of climate risks
Could artificial intelligence improve the way we cope with climate risks? Vitus Benson explains in a TEDx Talk how AI can revolutionize the communication of climate alerts, making them more personalized and effective.
January 3rd, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez2JViGIv7s
January 3rd, 2025
Climate Now Live | What's happening to the water cycle?
Euronews is bringing together a panel of experts, including René Orth, for a Climate Now debate, which will focus on the question: What’s happening to Europe’s water cycle?
Date: April 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmM3c2fhBqo
Date: April 26, 2023
Working at the limit: How thermodynamics shapes the earth system
Lecture by Dr. Axel Kleidon at the Islamic University of Science and Technology in Awantipora, India
Date: April 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHs62p-fR4
Date: April 6, 2023
Understanding the Earth: A thermodynamic perspective
Lecture by Dr. Axel Kleidon at IISER Pune (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research).
Date: October 16, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtnVMbUg1J0
Date: October 16, 2019
Explainer films
How effective are nature-based solutions at tackling climate change?
Video from Science Animated about the work of Carlos Sierra on a new computational framework that can determine how effective nature-based solutions are at sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDePofShWJ0
Why is research in the Amazon rainforest important, Florian Wittmann & Eliane Gomes Alves?
In the Berlin Science Week Deep Dive Eliane Gomes Alves talkes about her research within the ATTO project and about the role of the Amazon rainforest for global climate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWhqkmar8E
Video publications from „Latest Thinking“.
How Can Artificial Intelligence Enhance Our Understanding of the Earth System?
Markus Reichstein explains why new methods, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, will help solve Earth system questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJIkGqNflps
What Happens to Carbon Dioxide in Plant and Soil Systems?
Susan Trumbore explains the role of soils and ecosystems in the carbon cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOIUJJCJj3I
Image films
ICOS - Integrated Carbon Observation System
ICOS is a Europe-wide greenhouse gas research infrastructure. It produces standardised data on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as well as on carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, ecosystems and oceans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKDd46oYICs
The ELLIS Unit Jena at Friedrich Schiller University
The ELLIS Unit Jena specializes in combining AI with a particular focus on Earth sciences. It advances innovative research approaches that cover both the fundamentals of AI and its application to socially relevant issues such as climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUR7mz9V70U
The Flora Incognita project
The video gives a brief overview of the Flora Incognita project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9FJfxw_toM
Collaborative Research Centre 1076 AquaDiva
Scientific film about the research association AquaDiva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIGy5ECK6I
iDiv image film on biodiversity
from our partner, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SvG2nBCTM