TED Talks

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4:37

Robert Siddall

These squids can fly... no, really

Posted Jan 2021

4:31

Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

Which bag should you use?

Posted Nov 2020

6:00

Kate Slabosky

Can the ocean run out of oxygen?

Posted Aug 2020

4:45

Mike Gil

The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs

Posted Aug 2020

5:42

Lucy Cooke

No one can figure out how eels have sex

Posted Aug 2020

12:22

Marah J. Hardt

Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?

Posted May 2020

7:27

Skylar Tibbits

A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines

Posted May 2020

4:41

Cella Wright

This sea creature breathes through its butt

Posted Apr 2020

4:55

Daniel Finkel

Can you solve the sea monster riddle?

Posted Apr 2020

4:56

Stefan Al

Why isn't the Netherlands underwater?

Posted Mar 2020

13:03

Nicola Jones

The dangers of a noisy ocean — and how we can quiet it down

Posted Mar 2020

3:23

Yves Béhar

How surfboards connect us to nature

Posted Feb 2020

6:34

Jessica Ochoa Hendrix

How virtual reality turns students into scientists

Posted Jan 2020

13:05

Angelicque White

What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate

Posted Jan 2020

7:17

Alejandro Durán

How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans

Posted Dec 2019

6:42

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

A love story for the coral reef crisis

Posted Oct 2019

11:49

Alasdair Harris

How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution

Posted Oct 2019

14:46

Andrew Forrest

A radical plan to end plastic waste

Posted Oct 2019

14:00

Tim Flannery

Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Posted Sep 2019

14:49

Kelly Wanser

Emergency medicine for our climate fever

Posted Aug 2019

4:27

Judy Cebra-Thomas

How turtle shells evolved... twice

Posted Aug 2019

7:51

Victor Vescovo

What's at the bottom of the ocean — and how we're getting there

Posted Aug 2019

14:09

Paul Cater Deaton

Are our cultural narratives killing sharks?

Posted Jul 2019

17:27

Ocean Ramsey

Why the world needs sharks

Posted Jul 2019

5:00

Augusto Carballido

There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system

Posted Jun 2019

4:15

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis

Underwater farms vs. climate change

Posted Jun 2019

15:27

Steve Simpson

How ocean noise destroys marine ecosystems

Posted Jun 2019

5:19

The Nature Conservancy

An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection

Posted Jun 2019

13:30

Roger Hanlon

The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

Posted May 2019

4:22

Claire Simeone

The lovable (and lethal) sea lion

Posted May 2019

17:54

Guy Harvey

Painting sharks ... for science

Posted May 2019

4:59

M Jackson

How to grow a glacier

Posted Apr 2019

4:20

Nick Pizzo

The physics of surfing

Posted Mar 2019

4:16

Jennifer Verduin

How do ocean currents work?

Posted Jan 2019

13:59

Jonathan Wilker

What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue

Posted Jan 2019

4:49

Darren Croft

Inside the killer whale matriarchy

Posted Dec 2018