specifically in an area when all see that we're campaigning to become an antarctic ocean sanctuary you can't help wondering what scots in the old explorers would have made of this broadcasting from a drifting iceberg in the middle of the great on. and so a day of scenic wonder ends with a magical show above and a rare site where the rays of the setting sun converge on the other side of the world kind of reverse sunset. and is just spellbinding. it is laundry day or not sunrise and here's the thing we all think of being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that's one thing but when you've lost it. hundreds of thousands of microfiber is end up in the world's oceans so here in port it wouldn't and not for governments. and of course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the nicest losers on the planet to be appalling to do they could be blasting seriously greenpeace to conduct this experiment taking samples f

the pacific islands to florida most of the ice is lost from west antarctica and the antarctic peninsula where wilma ocean water is melting floating ice shelves at the end of class is. still to come this half hour. donald trump returns to the u.s. declaring that everyone can feel much safer career is no longer a new p.f. threat plus. the syrian refugees who say they have a better shot at life in their own country as the war drags on. tell us something of a chinese taking place in the weather across europe at the moment we're losing the heat and across northern parts of the continent further down to the south where weather the warm air is running into somewhat cooler here we're seeing some pretty lively storms so we've had storms across southern france easing their way across parts of the alps enormously into the a tragically still see the founder hazy pushing into the balkans and a little further east might be downpours coming in here as we go on through thursday for you guys can be some lively weather just around remain yesterday back into hungary was pretty poor for a good part of italy further north. s

pacific islands to florida most of the ice has been lost from west antarctica and the antarctic peninsula a warmer ocean water is melting floating ice shelves. without zero these are our top stories the u.s. south korea and japan are vowing to work together to ensure north korea gives up nuclear weapons yes actually a state has been briefing the two asian allies on president donald trump's meeting with north korea's leader on tuesday north korean state media said trump out agreed to lift sanctions but pompei insists that won't happen yet it sanctions really we should recall these are un sanctions the sanctions really cannot take place until such time as we have demonstrated that north korea has been completely denuclearize the summit created this in the stomach opportunity for us to move forward together and fundamentally will shape the relationship between the united states and north korea in security council hold an emergency meeting on thursday to discuss fighting near the yemeni port of hard data. pro-government forces backed by saudi amorality coalition have launched an operation to retake it from

they've reported over 200 tons of antarctic ice are pouring into the ocean. if it continues, some scientists' worst fears about region ocean levels could be realized. in the last 25 years, the ocean's level has risen about 0.3 of an inch. >>> "people" reports kim kardashian met with alice marie johnson. that's the woman kardashian helped release from prison. the reality star met the 63-year-old grandmother yesterday in memphis. last week president trump commuted johnson's life sentence on drug charges days after kardashian pleaded her case at the oval office. johnson released an instagram for the first time. >>> and "forbes" says hawaii's kilauea volcano is spewing gemstones. they're find green olivine crystals from falling out of the sky. they separated from the lava when the volcano erupted. several beaches in hawaii are green due to the high level of the mineral. >>> still to come, pushing interest rates higher. the fed pushes rates as it hints at more to come this year. rates as it hintds at more to come this year. child: bye, grandpa! and if you have hea

the pacific islands to florida most of the ice is lost from west antarctica and the antarctic peninsula where woman ocean water is melting floating ice shelves at the end of last years. let's get more on this address live from leeds in the u.k. is andy shepherd he's the lead author on the study into the antarctic ice melting is a professor of earth observation at the university of leeds thanks very much indeed for being with us so we surprised by it by these figures. very much so. large group of scientists to more than eighty was involved and we were all surprised at how quickly on top the curd switched from situation where it wasn't losing a great deal of ice to something that's more worrying what's that the main cause of this is that so they are able to establish with this or is that not something they can declare as a result of this research. so we have different methods different satellite sensors in space and they tell us different things about the ice in antarctica and we can see that they're going to see is a speed. they're speeding up in places where they're in contact with warm ocean currents th

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if it islands to florida most of the ice has been lost from west antarctica on the antarctic peninsula where warmer ocean water is melting floating ice shelves a massive dust storm on mars has put nasa's opportunity rover at risk scientists hope it will survive the storm which is expected to completely encircled the red planet in the coming days opportunity is powered by solar panels on the likely to be deprived of sunlight could be weeks or even months until the sky clears enough for sunlight to reach the martian surface. and laura karl is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories including the visit by u.s. secretary of state like pompei o to sold to try to get more details to political leaders about what was said at the singapore summit by. unpack it for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things you know it's all just there as i was looking for that about that or if you join us on the sat a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and ship steve bass is a dialogue to us about some of this success if pe

the pacific islands to florida most of the ice is lost from west antarctica and the antarctic peninsula where warmer ocean water is melting floating ice shelves at the end of the glasses at the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about donald trump returned to the united states declaring that everyone can feel much safer as north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. in argentina as green wave overturned one of latin america's most restrictive abortion rules and then later in sport roger federer of bounces back coming from behind to win his first match in three months. and macedonia as president says he will not sign off on a new name deal with greece just a day after the two nations reached an agreement to end their bitter dispute president ivanov says the deal would be damaging to his country and violates its constitution the greek prime minister alexis tsipras also come in for a barge of criticism the dispute between the two neighbors has been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. let's go live to our fans for more and we thought this long running dispute had been resolve

of the tool with plastic choking oceans waterways and communities real peace has found tiny plastic particles and on the toxins and water samples taken from the antarctic a sign that says that pollution is not reaching even some of the most remote corners of our world. antarctica the earth's southernmost continent is a highly sensitive ecosystem at hope bay home to the penguin colony the environmental organization greenpeace took snow and water samples earlier this year to measure the extent of pollution here. most of us imagine the antarctic as a pristine place untouched wilderness but our findings show that sadly not the case anymore plastic was discovered make plastics and other pollutants which means that they have made their way here to. the team examined remote areas at the tip of the antarctic peninsula the researchers found micro plastic fibers and toxins that are used by the packaging industry and found in sportswear greenpeace experts fear that plastic could get lodged in the tissues of marine creatures such as blue whales through the krill an algae they ingest micro plastics in the food chain represent a global threat. this is this is compar

potentially fight cancer, the oceans of antarctica are full of unique animals that scientists hope could hold the key to some major global problems. members of the british antarcticurvey in cambridge, spend months diving in freezing waters. our science correspondent, richard westcott has been given special access to the creatures they bring back to study. up top, antarctica is a frozen desert but venture beneath the ice, its waters are teeming with life. creatures that hold clues to how the animal world will cope with climate change. we have been given a rare behind—the—scenes glimpse of some of the creatures scientists have brought back to to the uk to study. there are some bizarre animals, believe me. this is one of my favourite creatures. it is like the other starfish we were looking at, except one obvious, and very obvious, difference. can you flip it over so we can see the mouth? this one may be, we'll take a hole and put it into there. in fact, it may well have something in there he's feeding off. studying these animals could help save lives. from the sea spider that can grow as big as a dinner plate, to the starfish that looks a bit like bagpuss. many are

potentially fight cancer, the oceans of antarctica are full of unique animals that scientists hope could hold the key to some major global problems. members of the british antarcticdent, richard westcott has been given special access to the creatures they bring back to study. up up top, antarctica is a frozen desert that beneath the ice, it is teeming with life. creatures that hold clues to how the animal world will cope with climate change. we have been given a rare behind—the—scenes look that creatures have been brought back to to study. —— scientists have brought back to the uk. this is one of my favourite creatures. it is like the other starfish we were looking at except one obvious and very obvious difference. can you flip it over? this one, it has a whole. studying these animals could help save lives. from the sea spider that can grow as big as a dinner plate. to the starfish that looks a bit like back course. some aren't free —— full of natural antifreeze that could be goodin natural antifreeze that could be good in the medical world. this one might fight cancer and infections. there are a range of animals from things like this to spongers and things like

potentially fight cancer, the oceans of antarctica are full of unique animals that scientists hope could hold the key to some major global problems. members of the british antarcticichard westcott has been given special access to the creatures they bring back to study. up top, antarctica is a frozen desert but venture beneath the ice, its waters are teeming with life. creatures that hold clues to how the animal world will cope with climate change. we have been given a rare behind—the—scenes glimpse of some of the creatures scientists have brought back to to the uk to study. there are some bizarre animals, believe me.

antarctic peninsula. very little data exists. it's a question of picking a tiny bit of the southern ocean and lowering in a manta — a trawling devicehope bay, it's off the cruise ship trial and not much fishing happens nearby. you won't really see plastic washed ashore, but scientists are worried what may happen here in the future. they also hunted for pollution on land, gathering samples of freshly fallen snow. we didn't know it at the time, but even here, deposited either as a gas or dusk were molecules of man—made chemicals. what we're finding is in almost all the samples of water we collected, we find tiny pieces of microplastics, maybe only a few fragments or fibres in every litre of water, but given that this is really the end of the earth, it's remarkable, once again, that we are finding microplastics almost wherever we look. jason roberts has worked in the polar regions for more than 30 years. what's the worst thing you've ever seen? i've seen some quite terrible things with plastics, but on the bigger scale, what actually is probably more terrible is the smaller scale, the microplastics you can't see. but the things you ca

potentially fight cancer, the oceans of antarctica are full of unique animals that scientists hope could hold the key to some major global problems. members of the british antarctice correspondent, richard westcott has been given special access to the creatures they bring back to study. up top, antarctica is a frozen desert. but venture beneath the ice, it's waters are teeming with life. creatures that hold clues to how the animal world will cope with climate change. well, we've been given a rare, behind—the—scenes glimpse at some of the creatures sciences have brought back from the uk to study. and there are some bizarre animals, believe me. this is one of my favourite creatures. so, it's just like the other starfish we were looking at. except one obvious, and very obvious, difference. can you flip it over, so we can see the mouth? yeah. this one may be, it will take a hold and put into there, in fact it might well have something in there that it's feeding on. studying these animals could help save lives. from the sea spider that can grow as big as a dinner plate, to the starfish that looks a bit like bagpuss. many are full of natural anti—freeze that could be u

antarctic peninsula. very little data exists. it's a question of picking a tiny bit of the southern ocean and lowering in a manta — a trawling device. it's off the cruise ship trial and not much fishing happens nearby. you won't really see plastic washed ashore, but scientists are worried what may happen here in the future. we are going to take these three samples. they also hunted for pollution on land, gathering samples of freshly fallen snow. we didn't know it at the time, but even here, deposited either as a gas or dusk were molecules of man—made chemicals. the samples were taken to a laboratory. the majority were found to be contaminated. what we're finding is in almost all the samples of water we collected, we find tiny pieces of microplastics, maybe only a few fragments or fibres in every litre of water, but given that this is really the end of the earth, it's remarkable, once again, that we are finding microplastics almost wherever we look. jason roberts has worked in the polar regions for more than 30 years. what's the worst thing you've ever seen? i've seen some quite terrible things with plastics, but on the bigger scale

antarctic peninsula. very little data exists. it's a question of picking a tiny bit of the southern 0cean picking a tiny bit of the southern oceanplastics should find their way into the net. the tea m find their way into the net. the team searched some of the most isolated places on the planet. this isolated places on the planet. this is hope bay, off the cruise ship trial and not much fishing happens nearby. you won't really seek plastic washed ashore but scientists are worried what may happen here in the future. they also hunted for pollution on land, gathering samples of freshly fallen snow. we didn't know it at the time, but even here, deposited either as a gas or dusk we re deposited either as a gas or dusk were molecules of man—made chemicals. in almost all the samples of water we collected, we find tiny pieces of micro plastics, maybe only a few fragments of fibres in every litre of water, but given that this is really the end of the earth it's remarkable once again that we are finding micro plastics almost wherever we look. jason roberts has worked in the polar regions for more than 30 years. what's the worst thing you'v

antarctic peninsula. very little data exists. it's a question of picking a tiny bit of the southern ocean and lowering in a manta — a trawling deviceplaces on the planet. this is hope bay, it's off the cruise ship trail and not much fishing happens nearby. you won't really see plastic washed ashore, but scientists are worried what may happen here in the future. we are going to take these three samples. they also hunted for pollution on land, gathering samples of freshly fallen snow. we didn't know it at the time, but even here, deposited either as a gas or dusk were molecules of man—made chemicals. the samples were taken to a laboratory. what we're finding is in almost all the samples of water we collected, we find tiny pieces of microplastics, maybe only a few fragments or fibres in every litre of water, but given that this is really the end of the earth, it's remarkable, once again, that we are finding microplastics almost wherever we look. jason roberts has worked in the polar regions for more than 30 years. what's the worst thing you've ever seen? i've seen some quite terrible things with plastics, but on the bigger scale, what

potentially fight cancer, the oceans of antarctica are full of unique animals that scientists hope could hold the key to some major global problems. members of the british antarcticespondent, richard westcott has been given special access to the creatures they bring back to study. up top, antarctica is a frozen desert. but venture beneath the ice and its waters are teeming with life. creatures that hold clues to how the animal world will cope with climate change. we have been given a rare behind—the—scenes glimpse at some of the creatures scientists have brought back to the uk to study and there are some bizarre animals, believe me. this is one of my favourite creatures. so it's just like the other starfish we were looking at. except one obvious and very obvious difference. can you flip it over so we can see the mouth? yeah. this one may be that it would take a whole limpet... in fact, it might well have something in their that it's feeding on. studying these animals could help save lives. from the sea spider that can grow as big as a dinner plate, to the starfish that looks a bit like bagpuss. many are full of natural antifreeze that could be useful in the medic

ice in the antarctic, is melting faster than before — according to scientists who've been studying new satellite. they say, 200 billion tonnes of ice a year, is now being lost to the oceanthe biggest picture ever taken of what to carry out the biggest picture ever ta ken of what exactly to carry out the biggest picture ever taken of what exactly is happening to the antarctic ice sheets. it's known as the ice sheet mass balance and the comparison exercise and as economic as that sounds it's very important. it's taking a huge step back and looking at antarctica from space. taking 24 different satellite measurements over a period from 1992 the 2017th to measure what's happening to that night. they look at the change and the shape of the ice sheet and it looks 0k the shape of the ice sheet and it looks ok with the speed at which they are flowing into the ocean. and more recently, scientists have been able to take gravity measurements that allow them to weigh that vast ice sheet that holds a 90% of the planets's fresh water. it's a huge weight of ice under dynamics are on a enormous scale which is why scientists have to take this methods that back. what they have seen is tha

warming ocean waters erode the west antarctic ice sheets from below as the warming air melts them from above. once the ice shells melt back, you have the loss of the buttress effect, and the ice sheet on land can then accelerate with that buttress effect diminished more rapidly into the sea, causing a more rapid rise in sea level. the effect of this is actually measurable, and we measure it. observations from the nasa and german aerospace centers' twin gravity recovery and climate experiment satellites measure these losses to be around 125 gigatons of ice per year. well, what's a gigaton of ice? a gigaton is one billion tons. meredith nettles of the lemont-doherty earth observatory at columbia university described a gigaton-sized piece of ice this way. i quote her -- if you took the whole national mall -- here we are in washington. if you took the whole national mall and covered it up with ice to a height around four times as high as the washington monument. so imagine you have walked out here on the the capitol steps. you're looking out all the way down the national mall to the washin