Most plants are sensitive to even slight water loss for short periods of time. Resurrection plants are extremely unusual in that they can lose 95% of their c...

Visit Korea, Peru, Germany and France pavilions at COP21 and watch a presentation of the NAMAs. The UNFCCC secretariat and the Climate Technology Centre and ...

Betty Palmer is the Executive Director of the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. On Febrary 23, 2013, TEDxColbyCollege will explore new ideas through the lens of fa...

This presentation by Claire Falls, 12-year-old Founder and Director of FEVER – Football for EVERyone, was given at the annual conference of the South Austral...

Does collecting more data lead to better decision-making? Competitive, data-savvy companies like Amazon, Google and Netflix have learned that data analysis a...

How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media -- even our notion of what humanity is for. This is the first of a series of TED Dialogues, seeking a thoughtful response to escalating political divisiveness. Make time (just over an hour) for this fascinating discussion between Harari and TED curator Chris Anderson.

Many solutions to improve agricultural productivity and farmer livelihoods also have positive impacts on climate change adaptation, and they often aren’t cas...

Is it true that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real? Where does the 97% figure come from? And if it is true, do they agree on both th...