Oceans in Trouble
This common type of pollution comes from plastic debris breaking into smaller pieces in the sea.
What is microplastic?
This term refers to the large-scale removal of trees without replanting.
What is deforestation?
This form of renewable energy is produced using the motion of wind turbines.
What is wind energy?
Due to rising temperatures and dry vegetation, Los Angeles faces a high risk of this type of natural disaster every year.
What are wildfires?
This 2024 film based on the children's novel by Peter Brown, explores themes of nature vs. technology through a robot protagonist and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Movie.
What is The Wild Robot?
What is 94%?
The Amazon rainforest is primarily located in this country.
What is Brazil?
By 2030, this U.S. state aims to have 100% of its energy sourced from renewable sources—making it one of the leaders in the transition to clean energy.
What is California?
To fight the urban heat island effect, L.A. is experimenting with this kind of paint on roads and rooftops.
What is reflective (or cool) paint?
This 2006 documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, follows former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness about global warming, featuring his landmark presentation on climate change.
What is An Inconvenient Truth?
This sea creature is unique in that it is the only species where the male gives birth.
What is a sea horse?
Trees absorb this greenhouse gas during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
This country leads the world in installed solar panel capacity.
What is China?
In response to worsening air pollution and rising emissions, Los Angeles has pledged to transition all city buses to this type of energy by 2030.
What is electric (or zero-emission)?
This South Korean film by Bong Joon Ho critiques the global meat industry through the story of a genetically modified super pig.
What is Okja?
Coral reefs are sensitive to even slight increases in this environmental factor.
What is water temperature?
Old-growth forests are especially important because they store more of this than young forests.
What is carbon?
This energy source is considered nonrenewable because it takes millions of years to form.
What are fossil fuels?
While best known for her role in Euphoria, this actress is also a UN Ambassador and has publicly pushed for climate education and youth-led environmental justice.
Who is Zendaya?
In Interstellar, the protagonist's community in Colorado is plagued by what two environmental disasters?
What are dust storms and crop failures (or food scarcity)?
Ocean acidification is caused by the absorption of this greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
The boreal forest biome, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, spans across this northern continent.
What is Eurasia?
This kind of energy is generated from animals and plants and when burned, releases energy in the form of heat.
What is biomass?
Los Angeles imports a majority of its drinking water from this distant river system, creating ongoing legal and environmental tension.
What is the Colorado River?
In 2021, this director released a satire titled, Don't Look Up, about an impending comet that will destroy Earth, serving as an allegory for society’s response to the climate crisis and scientific warnings.
Who is Adam McKay?