The mission of the California Academy of Sciences is to explore, explain, and sustain life.

In this silent video, view color-coded data which show how California’s trees were affected by drought in 2016.

Ecosystem-wide, is the Amazon storing or releasing more carbon dioxide? Watch this silent clip to view the data.

What would you see if you could shrink down to fit inside a plant cell?

A rainforest’s ability to take a deep breath depends on a somewhat surprising factor—the age of its leaves.

What are earthquakes? Get a new perspective on these powerful phenomena with this collection of videos and infographics co-presented by the California Academy of Sciences and KQED.

Learn about all the individual elements and forces that make up an earthquake.

The inside of our planet is made primarily out of iron and nickel and dark, dense rock.

Billions of years ago, Earth had supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together.

How is the development of human population centers linked to the development of agriculture?

Real-time air traffic reveals travel patterns occurring on timescales far more rapid than species migration.

This clip demonstrates global ship traffic over an eleven day period.

See how seasonal changes drive patterns in animal behavior.

Witness the influence of the sun on the seasonal abundance of plant matter produced on land and in our oceans.

In this video, learn how Earth’s rotation and the angle of sunlight interact to create different seasons.