Ramsey Library at UNC Asheville: Environmental Studies: News, Film, Audio and Images

Environmental News

Climate and Environment News - NYT
The New York Times publishes many different stories about climate and the environment from award-winning journalists and academics.
Environmental Health News
Environmental Health News is a nonprofit site that publishes global news focused on the intersection of the environment and health.
Environmental News Network
The Environmental News Network is an environment news aggregator, gathering reporting from many different sources.
Grist
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

Environmental stories from NPR

Subscribed Streaming Film Databases

See the full collection of Environmental Science documentaries in our Films on Demand Database here.

Films on Demand
Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
PBS Video Collection
Over 400 streaming videos from PBS

Free Video Search Tools and Online Archives

Frontline
PBS' Frontline has a great deal of coverage of climate change and the environment. Students can also use the search bar to find specific subjects and films.
NOVA
NOVA is PBS' science-focused documentary series. They publish many different videos and articles about environmental issues.
TED- Ideas Worth Spreading
TED is a series of formal talks about diverse subjects by scientists, journalists, and activists to promote new and innovative ideas about all subjects. In addition to talks about the environment, users can also browse talks tagged with "climate change," "sustainability," and more.

Multimedia Library Resources

Beyond Standing Rock "[T]akes a close-up look at the controversy on the front lines of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The film investigates the collision of energy development and tribal rights/sovereignty. BEYOND STANDING ROCK explores these issues through three different tribal stories: The Dakota Access Pipeline (Standing Rock Sioux), the Southern Ute Tribe energy development, and a coalition of tribes in the Four Corners region, fighting for control over the Bears Ears National Monument.."-- www.tugg.com
Call Number: E98.T77 B48 2017
Climate refugees : The global human impact of climate change Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences. Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Little is being done to plan for the potential mass migration of millions of refugees who will be forced to cross national borders. According to the UN, there are already more environmental refugees in the world than political or religious refugees. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase "climate wars" is being talked about in war-rooms. The filmmakers traveled the world for nearly 3 years to document the impact of climate change, witnessing inhabitants of countries forced to leave their homes by climatic events with little or no protection. The film features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. All make a strong case that, whether human-caused or a product of nature, the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and will inevitably lead to worldwide political instability. Climate Refugees was filmed in Bangladesh, Tuvalu, China, Fiji, Chad, Sudan, Kenya, Maldives, Europe and the US
Guardians of our troubled waters The story of North Carolina's challenged rivers and the champions who rose to protect them
Call Number: QH76.5.N67 G83 2019
If a tree falls : a story of the Earth Liberation Front The remarkable story of the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat,' told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marshall Curry weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF
Call Number: GE197 .I3 2011
An inconvenient truth Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 I533 2006
The Monsanto Papers This program investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, Roundup

Satellite Images

Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change
Maintained by the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center at USGS, each Earthshots page features a different location from around the world and explains the changes that the satellite images reveal.
NESDIS Satellite Imagery Collections
The National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service's Imagery Collections website includes photographs, downloadable videos, data visualizations, and historical imagery.