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Climate Refugees: "The multi-award winning Sundance film has screened around the world illuminating the human face of climatic change to global citizens". This movie is an incredible look at the impact of climate change to humans NOW, not just predictive like most climate change videos.

The city of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory lies in the heart of crocodile country. In the 1950s, saltwater crocodiles were shot, skinned, and turned into shoes and handbags. After hunting was banned in the 1970s, crocodile numbers climbed. Now there's a croc for every man, woman, and child in Darwin. Can the human citizens learn to live alongside their toothy neighbors? Good source of quick podcasts and a guide for using them.

The changing climate impacts society and ecosystems in a broad variety of ways. For example, climate change can alter rainfall, influence crop yields, affect human health, cause changes to forests and other ecosystems, and even impact our energy supply. Climate-related impacts are occurring across the country and over many sectors of our economy. Explore the impacts of climate change by region, by sector, or by state.

Plastic pollution is killing our planet! It's choking our oceans, poisoning our food and water supply, and wreaking havoc on the health and well-being of humans and wildlife worldwide Use these ten shocking facts about the scope of plastic pollution to educate, inspire and mobilize your friends, family, coworkers and community to join the movement to END PLASTIC POLLUTION this Earth Day. 

This interactive tool allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works and how it is affected by human activities and nonhuman phenomena.

This is one of a huge and diverse series of short, animated and slightly sarcastic science videos by the Kurzgesagt group. They are active and post a new one about once a week. The nuclear power series of videos is also excellent.

Informative and entertaining talk on population growth, it's causes, differences between countries, and solutions. Very good visuals, data, etc.

The Central Valley Science Project in the School of Education and Human Development at California State University, Fresno.

Impressive story map showing the effects of the anthropocene.

I find this a good video to show to help students to better understand Endagered Species and their impacts. This short clip explains population and impacts on protecting endangered species. This is a powerful way to connect several concepts that are difficult understand how they impact one another.