is it is the situation different and i tell you that yes absolutely i mean the antarctic is protected by a treaty which at the moment and the world it is also well yes but the there is you know at the moment the antarctic treaty prevents any industrialisation being carried out on their how long that would last if. vast deposits of oil or gas or oil are so valuable minerals worth this were discovered there i don't know i suspect not too long but at the moment it's impossible so so what really needs the attention of the environmentalists is today is the arctic yes. yes because i think they are while it needs it more than the i mean there are other areas of the world where they need the ultimate attention from environmentalists not just the arctic but you know the antarctic can say is it's already rate well regulated and controlled the arctic is much less thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in this studio today was an award winning photographer brian alexander and that's sort of from all of us here if you want to have yourself spotlight or ha

taking pictures in the far north of arctic and antarctic regions and these regions of the planet are considered to be like the true barometer is of what's the what's changing in the climate on the whole planet so so is there really any visible change over there. certainly visible change i mean i've seen it in areas of north greenland which i've been sort of visiting sort of on a fairly regular basis for the past thirty nine years so i've seen glaciers have receded and also what tends to be happening is the. ice around the coasts of the arctic and the rivers and lakes are freezing later each of the time or later in the autumn and that same ice is then breaking up earlier in the spring and that poses problems for people who are me to travel on them on the ice and rivers. cherry alexander won the b.b.c. world life photographer of the year back in ninety four if yes that's right yeah with a picture of a blue eyes barry. and what i read about it is that is that one of the reasons is that. those blue eyes are very rare those days but no they're not this is climate change also the reason i

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scientists discover a new type of mineral in an antarctic meteorite.aptions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today, we begin with deal or no deal. as the sun comes up on capitol hill, lawmakers working through the night still have not come to terms on a spending plan for the nation's expiring budget, making a potential government shutdown appear more and more likely. nbc's tracey polgts joins us from washington with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: now we're within 48 hours of this possible government shutdown. the president was up late last night working on this. so were key lawmakers from ear on the hill. they told their staffs to stay up all night if necessary to keep this government open. americans are bracing for the real impact of a government shutdown. >> we may not get paid but we still need to report to work. >> reporter: after a late-night meeting with house speaker john boehner and harry reid, president obama said

that gives away it's probably not going to be the antarctic. so, we'll just wait and see. any minute now, we'll know. >> and there were rumors that she didn't even know. that he was keeping it a secret, not telling her. >> it was certainly william's intention to keep it from her. they discussed what she would like to do in general. we don't know if she knows where she's heading off to today, either. >> and she's not going to have time to breathe before people start speculating about a baby. a royal baby. of course, we know, william came soon after the wedding. there's a lot of anticipation here that she should get pregnant right away. >> that's right. when charles and diana got married. also, when the queen and duke of edinburgh got married, prince charles was born not long after that. so, yes. the next story. now, we have the business at the abbey out of the way, it will be, is she pregnant? >> she lost a lot of weight leading up to the wedding. so, everyone will be looking for any pound she gains after the wedding. and speaking of the wedding, everyone looked dashing. sh

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a little bit different up in antarctic environment, and we respect that. but to the senator's question, which is a very legitimate and very fair question -- and this is why we had hoped so much that this report from the department of interior would have really allowed for a breakdown so that we can understand what is happening with these many, many, many thousands of leases that are out there and existing. what is the true status? to put it in idle or unused is not very clear, quite honestly. what does that mean? are we in the ex-floor torry -- exploratory phase and so we're not in production and what category is that in? is this an older lease that perhaps they have determined there simply is not the, given that for instance you're drilling in some deep waters, extraordinarily costly, as i mentioned. these are very complex, the technologies are considerable. and so if you have done some exploration but you find very, very limited or perhaps nothing, as i mentioned, we don't have that magic "x" that leads us to what we call in the north the elephant finds.