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This Fierce Earth special takes viewers on a journey to one of the world's coldest and most hostile places on the planet - the Yukon Territory in Canada. The team meets people who call this frozen place their home and finds out which animals are perfectly adapted to life in a sub-zero climate. They also get first-hand experience of surviving its freezing and life threatening temperatures and Leo attempts to climb a huge wall of sheer ice.

Written by an expert in the field, this book provides unified, complete coverage of thermodynamics for undergraduate students.

The temperature at which a solid changes to a liquid. For pure substances, the melting or fusion process occurs at a single temperature (see table), the temperature rise with addition of heat being arrested until melting is complete. The direct transition from solid phase to gas phase is not properly called melting, but preferably, sublimation.

This program take a thorough look at nuclear radiation, covering the history of its discovery, what makes atoms radioactive, and methods for detecting radioactivity. The video also explains types of radiation including alpha, beta, gamma, and positron, types of decay and decay equations, decay series, radiation dose, and dose equivalence. The effects of radiation on living things and the environment, and the uses of radiation in medicine and industry...

Some scientific studies predict that as the Earth continues to warm, up to a third of all species could go extinct by the middle of the century. This ABC News program looks at the effect of global warming on non-human life--specifically two species of frogs that used to inhabit the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, in Costa Rica; three additional vanished frog species in Madagascar; and the severely threatened checkerspot butterfly in southern California....

Milne argues that, far from warming, the Earth may be heading for a new Ice Age as it comes to the end of a long interglacial. He describes how climatology has become a multi-million dollar hi-tech computerized science that makes use of a great web of information gathered from around a largely watery world, but one in which "chaos theory" can so easily make climate predictions meaningless.

"What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular...

In episode three of the series "Years of Living Dangerously", MSNBC's Chris Hayes shadows a climate change skeptic, Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, for a year in Staten Island in the wake of Superstorm Sandy and questions what he might have learned about climate change in the process. In addition, conservationist M. Sanjayan travels to Christmas Island with a climate scientist who gathers thousands of years of temperature data from coral to...

A fire needs heat, fuel, and oxygen. This Science Screen Report examines that triangle of ingredients, and how scientists study it in order to combat-or harness-fire. With detailed examples of firefighting techniques, the program demonstrates the removal of heat from a class A blaze through the use of water or sprayed polymers, and the elimination of oxygen, a strategy used in fighting oil fires. The video concludes with a focus on the internal combustion...