https://tube.blueben.net/videos/watch/8942b6d8-32d5-4d66-abbd-cf344d7a8087 Find out the surprising ways microbes, fungi, plankton and other tiny organisms shape our planet and our lives in this collection of MinuteEarth videos. EPISODES IN THIS COMPILATION: 0:00 Intro 0:19 Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food? 3:36 Is Soil Alive? 6:24 Mushroom Wars 8:56 How Mushrooms Make It Rain 10:00 Where Do Our Drugs Come From? 12:29 The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Are Now Killing Us 15:31 These tiny shells know how much ice there is on Earth 18:07 The Plankton Paradox 21:25 What’s Eating The Titanic? 24:33 The Truth About Petri Dishes LEARN MORE If you liked this week’s video, you might also like: 4 Great Science Stories | MinuteEarth Directors' Picks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-weq8T-5A MinuteEarth Explains: Solar Eclipses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wshkH64xDac SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH If you like what we do, you can help us!: Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth, Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth, Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books, Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com, Share this video with your friends and family, Leave us a comment (we read them!), CREDITS Lizah van der Aart | Writer & Host Leonardo Souza | Video Editor Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Henry Reich • Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida ADDITIONAL CREDITS Emily Elert, Julián Gómez, Jesse Agar OUR LINKS Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:38:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.blueben.net https://tube.blueben.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://tube.blueben.net/videos/watch/8942b6d8-32d5-4d66-abbd-cf344d7a8087 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.blueben.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.