Johan Adda is a product, app, and service designer with over a decade in mobile. His last app was featured seven times by Apple and Google. He previously served as Lead Designer for Apple,

Johan Adda is a product, app, and service designer with over a decade in mobile. His last app was featured seven times by Apple and Google. He previously served as Lead Designer for Apple, contributing to iAd, Apple Pay, and Marcom.

A recognized expert in product experience, Johan co-developed a beautiful flower robot with a British animatronic expert. He recently founded a toy company, creating products from ocean plastic for children under six, aiming to spark imagination and combat plastic waste.

This talk was presented at a TEDx event. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx.

Host Jeff Corwin travels to Alaska's Cook Inlet to assist conservationists Nicole Whittington-Evans and Suzanne Steinert in monitoring the critically endangered beluga whale population. These

Host Jeff Corwin travels to Alaska's Cook Inlet to assist conservationists Nicole Whittington-Evans and Suzanne Steinert in monitoring the critically endangered beluga whale population. These "great white canaries of the sea" are uniquely adapted to Arctic life, using echolocation and feeding on salmon, but their numbers have drastically declined.

The Cook Inlet beluga population has plummeted by nearly 80% since the late 1980s due to habitat degradation, climate change, and other cumulative human impacts. Conservation efforts focus on reducing these threats and balancing human and wildlife needs to ensure these iconic whales survive for future generations. Learn more about wildlife conservation at www.defenders.org/wildlifenation.

Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of the bestselling "Finding the Mother Tree," is a world-renowned pioneer in plant communication and

Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and author of the bestselling "Finding the Mother Tree," is a world-renowned pioneer in plant communication and intelligence. Her groundbreaking research reveals the complex ways trees interact and communicate through below-ground fungal networks, which are crucial for forests’ resiliency, adaptability, and recovery.

Simard’s work has far-reaching implications for managing and healing forests from human impacts, including climate change. She discusses the dire global consequences of logging old-growth rainforests and advocates for nature-based solutions that combine Western science and Indigenous knowledge to preserve and care for these invaluable ecosystems for future generations.

Learn more at Bioneers.org.