>> michael: we call it the banana belt of antarctica.>> anthony: life at lake hoare, considering the limitations and the difficulties, is freakin' luxurious by continental standards. out here, by the way, as everywhere on the continent, every bit of waste is separated and collected. one pee's in a bottle and pours it in the barrel, where it is eventually collected and shipped back to america. life here most definitely has its advantages. rae and her staff seem always to be making something delicious. homemade bread, scones, muffins appear throughout the day. tonight its bbq pork tenderloin. oh that looks good. pork tenderloin, damn. grilled mahi sticks and shrimp marinated in chili sauce. homemade sourdough bread, a roasted beet salad. >> woman in orange: oh, my gosh. look at that salad, it's so purple and it has avocado in it. >> anthony: what cannot be fresh is nonetheless delicious. edamame's salad with dried cranberries and carrots. roasted vegetables, one might find oneself enjoying a cocktail or two. this is an amazing spread. >> w

antarctica has lost ice many times before, and that also caused the seas to rise.researchers are now trying to determine how much warmth it takes to cause truly catastrophic sea level rise. that glacier you see behind me connects up overhat peak to the massive west antarctic ice sheet. and all of those layerof snow and ice, built up over hundreds of thousands of years, contain a remarkable history of earth's past climate. >> it's ke a tape recorder, a 10,000 foot tape recorder in places. so scientists have drilled ice cores through the layers as far down as they can get, and then they analyze those layers. >> brangham: glaciologist robert mulvaney, that's him in th black cap, works for the british antarctic survey. he and a small team have been drilling over 2,000 feet down into the ice sheet, pulling outh e ice cores. >> what we've been trying to do is recover our climate record over the last 120 to 140,000o years to tryderstand how our climate might change over the next hundred years or so as the climate responds toea ind carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. >> bran

plus, for most of human history, antarctica remained unknown. nt our last report in a series from the icy conti discovery and diplomacy at thef bottome world. >> this was how you showed that you were a scientific presence. this was a matter of prestige and status. it showed that you had arrived. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been ovided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. babbel's 10-15 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. more information on babbel.com. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and theihe solutions toorld's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more iormation at macfound.org >> an

humans only discovered antarctica about 200 years ago. but as william brangham and producers mike fritz and emilyt, carpeaux repow we govern the continent today has fostered diplomatic and scientificat cooperion among many nations. it's part of our weekly series on the leading edge of science. >> brangham: there's no place further south on earth than antarctica, a virtua uninhabited continent, covered most entirely by ice. there's no indigenous human population, no official government, not even a single paved road. >> it was the last place to explore. brangham: alexandra isern is the head of antarctic sciences for the national science foundation, which also supports some newour reporting. archival hunters, 1800s she says the first humans to ever set foot on antarctica were >> it's an excellent example of cooperation. and seals in the early 1800's, hoping to kill them for their pelts, or boil them down for their oil. >> there was a real economy built around whaling.ng >> bm: once those mammals were discovered here, it set off something of

n brangham: remember: antarctica hgovernment. no nation runs this place and currently, all tour groups are governed by a strict, but voluntary, set of regulations. for example: only one ship at a time is allowed at designated sites. there are rules about ho cmany peop go ashore, and how close they can get to wildlife. one ocean expeditions es all tourists vacuum and clean their gear before going ashore, so no foreign seeds or dirt end up on land. all returning gear gets a similar scrub every day. but invasive species have already taken hold. this moss is from the arctic, a trace amount somehow made the 12,000 mile tr. and there are also concerns about wildlife: two of thehree penguin species on the peninsula arin decline, researchers believe its being driven in pary warming environment. given that, are all these human visitors an added stress? you see all that reddish brownth material oground behind me? that's all penguin guano, or penguin poop. not only does it give this whole area a unique aroma, but scientists have been measur

. >> antarctica is really the world's last gre's wilderness. continent that is for nature, and i think that's a really important symbol, because so many other places where human civilization has spread to, we have des >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin! >> kevin. >> advice for life. life well-planned. learn more at raymondjames.com. >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. sugyorting science, technolo, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the ement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support these institutions: and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public bbyadcasting. anontributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruf

a new tale of survival and love in antarctica. >>> but first shall the "nightline" five. the "nightline five. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. it was the case that shocked the nation. a california couple convicted o children in a desperate call to authorities. here's correspondent matt gutman. >> sometimes i still have nightmares of things that have happened. such as my siblings being chained up or getting beaten. >> reporter: when david and louise turpin last saw their ilf them were in shackles. today a stunning final chapter in a case that horrified the world. >> what some are calling a house of horrors. inside a home of southern california. >> 13 siblings living in deplorable conditions. >> reporter: now at their sentencing hearing, face-to-face with some of their children for the first time since pleading guilty to multiple counts of torture and false imprisonment. >> i cannot describe in words what we went through growing up. >> reporter: cameras tilted down to protect the victims' identity. one daughter wounded but resilient. >> my parents took my whole l

plus, warnings from antarctica. we kick off our series of reports from the bottom of the world with a look at what penguins can teach us about climate change. >> penguins are us, you might say.re theyhe the same air. they have to have food, a good home, a good environment. if one of those falls out of sync, it's troubling. woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. f >> major fundior the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving ourconomy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> babbel. t a language apphat teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. em >> theson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more i

what's happening now in real time on antarctica. >> hello. by the national science foundation. it's a really cool thing that our country does, just not a lot of people know about it,nd we really like being part of that small group of people who come down here and are out there on the cutting edge of science, helping the scientists get their work done. >> i think what's really important for people to understand is that the ice sheets are melting, the poles are warming faster than any other place on the planet, and the water goes into the ocean and it shows up on our doorstep in new york or california, or florida or europe or wherever you are, and people need to be think being this and wothinking this and worry being this. >> we are all connected even when we don't think we are. >>> struggle to keep the lights on is turning south africa into a pioneer of renewable energy. young entrepreneurs are harnessing the sun's ♪ (vo) i know what you're thinking. electric, it's not for you. and, you're probably right. electric just doesn't have enough rang

i'm the luckiest guy on the planet. >> brangham: for the pbs newshour, i'm williabrangham in antarcticadruff: a news update before we go. the chairman of the u.s. house waze and means committee, representative richard neil of minnesota, requested six years of president trump's personal and business tax returns. unlike other recent requests by congressional democrats, representative neil is using a little-knownrovision of tax law dating back a century to the teap dome scandal of the harding administration. it grants the chairman power request tax information on any filer. mr. trump says tonight he is not clined to adhere to the request. on the newshour online, we see how an academy in uganda is training youth to start their own businesses to spark social change. that's on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbsne hour, thank you and see you soon. >> maj newshour has been provided by: >> text night and day. >> catch it on replay. >> burning some fat.he >> sharingatest v

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william brangham and his team have this preview of "warnings from antarctica." >> antarctica, a continentcovered entirely in ice, is now seeing that ice threatened by climate change.ne >> the con's warming from below and also from above. >> as this ice melts, sea levels all over the world will continue to rise. >> this can teach us somethingh about life on planet. >> with a warming environment, two species of penguins are seeing dramatic decli can they adapt? >> could be likely within our lifetime tha we'll see animals disappear from the peninsula. >> what does it mean for the world?ct >> antarica is the world's last , great wildernet the best thing we can do for humanity in terms of a ant as keep it like it is. >> woodruff: can't wait to see this. "warnings from antarctica" airs every wednesday in april, starting tomorrow. and that is the net.hour for toni i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again right here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you,u nd we'll see on. >> major funng for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a lauage app that teaches re

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atmosphere is one hundred of what we have here on earth it's very very cold and at the fast it's like antarctica you could imagine bringing some supplies and you know if you do end build a little self-contained pressured vehicle or vessel which would be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive for ever we're going to have to move off the earth eventually and i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere. venezuela's self declared president on a point though his challenge to authorities to arrest him after the country's government controlled assembly stripped him of his immunity why don't has been engaged in a power struggle with president nicolas maduro for months in january he declared himself president and was immediately recognized by the united states and to.

in 2017 cbs news saw firsthand the overall decrease in penguin populations in antarctica.predict the emperor population will decrease 50% to 70% by the end of the century. but there was a surprise in the new study. the same satellite imagery showed an increase in a penguin colony more than 30 miles away which is better suited for breeding. peter fretwell is with the british antarctic survey. >> that gives us confidence that they're probably a little better adapted to climate change than we first thought. >> reporter: for now a remarkable show of resilience in one of the when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. ♪a little respect >>> we end with a team taking home medals from the world cheerleading championships. their groundbreaking performance was far from routine. her

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atmosphere is one hundred of what we have here on earth it's very very cold and at the past it's like antarctica you could imagine bringing some supplies and you know if you do them to build a little self-contained pressured vehicle or vessel which would be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive for ever we're going to have to move off the earth eventually and i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere. this is due to reduced line from berlin sra longer begins to bury its dead funerals take place for the first of three hundred twenty victims of the easter sunday attacks so-called islamic state now says it was behind the deadly bombings also coming up germany tries to pass a resolution at the united nations tackling rate as a weapon of war but russia and china have watered down the measure and now the united states is threatening to veto it.

but it is the fa ct freezer in antarctica.you compare that with what we know now and you can tell how things have changed? i know i'm over simplifying things, but is that it? yes, ice cores are a special kind of record and they act like a box, with the bubbles, when you put an ice core in water you hear it pop and crackle like rice crispies. so we can do very sensitive chemical analysis on the gas in the bubbles to tell us what the carbon dioxide and methane levels were what the carbon dioxide and methane levels we re over what the carbon dioxide and methane levels were over 1.5 million years ago. that is the analysis we will be doing. you spent a lot of time in these areas and you got once stuck ina these areas and you got once stuck in a tent, marooned or what happened? i mean, i was in a tent, marooned or what happened? i mean, iwas on in a tent, marooned or what happened? i mean, i was on a large uk research programme called ice star. we were using satellite data and field records to assess how the region was changing. we

so if you are scanning vast swathes of antarctica, you can pick these colours out and through it theynies that were known about to date just through the use of satellite images. that you have looked at so many different things and these are gorgeous pictures. what seems extraordinary watching it, tell me about the elephants as well, you are looking at some elephants. you look at them on the earth and then you see them from space. how does it work? we didn't know we could! theoretically, we said, of course, high resolution satellites can take images with 33 centimetre per pixel. so, you can see a house, a car, trees. they were like, well, can we see an elephant? they were like, theoretically. but, as long as you can tell us where they are going to be on a specific day. we were like... 0k! let's take a lot at what you've been watching online. and it's a simplejob, but is the nightmare of many parents — asking their children to clean their bedroom. this may bcome a thing of the past as a company injapan is trying to teach a pair of machines how to tidy a child's bedroom. the key is tryin

>>you know for deforestation and how its polar ice caps in antarctica and greenland are melting. >>ice mass loss over just the last 17 years and so this trend is a big trend. >>nasa says these changes don't just impact the creatures that live in those icy climates no impact all of us to sea level rise, 10 feet. >>your beach front property may be underwater properties already going to do about it. >>earth day is monday the perfect time to remember how beautiful, but fragile our planet is in washington. alexandra mound. it is not. >>something you would see every day coming out i deputies responded to this unexpected roadway obstruction. i'm kron four is now streaming live local news 24 hours a day they have and tried kron on yet here is what you're missing. >>we're still in 35 years. make it out of there. county oakland, san francisco menlo park. >>there you go a chicago is known for its very simple less so for the donkeys serious light. however this week one was spot by trooper on the interstate local authorities say the animal escaped from its trailer and within an hour the donke

life national geographic explorer are stand on stage and take the audience on an expedition to antarctica or wherever it may be. we did one this other weekend where a local from the bay area, a researcher and world expert with manta raies took an audience into the pacific ocean. >> let me ask a slightly different question. do you see this integrating with other big trends that are happening now such as esports? for example, is there an opportunity to take somebody playing vr into your venue and then have that interface with the esports community? >> yeah, you know, that's a great, great question because we do see different types of location-based experiences emerging. so in the experience that you experienced, you playing together with people, that's oop testify, butre still a scoring element in what we have so people try to compete for the high score within that. afterwards you get a video, you get to take ithome. people like to watch people doing vr, but more importantly like to see them competing or working together and i think that -- that's a natural extension to why are poiyour po y

the ice in antarctica is melting at an accelerating pace, threatening coastal communities thousands of away. >> in areas around some of our biggest cities, new york, boston, miami, whereou've got a lot of development, very close to sea level-how do you defend those? >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

plus, for most of human history, antarctica remained unknown.st report in a series from the icy conti discovery and diplomacy at thef bottome world. >> this was how you showed that you were a scientific presence. this was a matter of prestige and status. it showed that you had arrived. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

plus, warnings from antarctica.ck off our series of reports from the bottom of the world with a look at what penguins can teach us about climate change. >> penguins are us, you might say.re theyhe the same air. they have to have food, a good home, a good environment. if one of those falls out of sync, it's troubling. woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

melting of ice, both sea ice, the layers of ice that form seasonally in the arctic, and around antarctica, and land ice, the major ice s sheets, the continental ice sheets like the greenland ice sheet and the antarctic ice sheet. in both respects, both in terms of the shrinking amount of sea ice, for example, in the arctic at the end of a summer. the kind of trajectory th we're on leads to the conclusion that within a matter of a couple of decadedes, wewe may see ice free connditis in the arctic at the end of the susummer. this is sosomething tt the climate models predict shouldn't happen for another 60 years, 'til the end of the 21st century, and indeed nature seems to be on a course that's faster, that's more dramatic than what the climate models predict. we arere already observing and measuring a decrease in the amount of ice in the greenland ice sheet and the west antarctic ice sheet. now, the climate models have predicted that we shouldn't see that for many decades to come, and the key distinction here is if it's a land ice sheet, a land-based ice sheet, then when it melts, it actual

the second biggest emperor penguin breeding side in antarctica thought rather than as a penguin ecologist with the british antarctic survey he explains why holiday was considered a safe breeding ground despite global warming the colony. between a fourteen thousand and twenty four thousand breeding pairs so it's a big colony it's equivalent to about eight or nine percent of the global population so it's a significant colony however we've seen in the past that sometimes you get a complete failure at some colonies we know that colonies move so that's not what is interesting about this observation what is unique about this is that this colony is deep in the world will say it's in america where we expect to stay colder as the world warms so it's an area which we can think of as a refuge for and preparing winds so if in the refuges very are also vulnerable to severe storm of events and that means those safe places onto safe as we had previously thought. well still ahead on al jazeera. and i'll see ten to twelve women pass for the brisbane roll please that has all the sphinx. now it's time for s

virtually nothing is had stayed halle berry as the second biggest and her penguin breeding ground in antarctica so stratton is a penguin ecologist at the british antarctic survey he explains why how the bay was considered a safe breeding ground for the emperor penguins the spike global warming. the colony are. between a fourteen thousand and twenty four thousand breeding pairs so it's a big colony it's a crippling to about eight or nine percent of the global population so it's a significant colony however we've seen in the past that sometimes you get a complete failure some colonies we know that column use move so that's not what is interesting about this observation what is unique about this is that this colony is deep in the world will say it's an america where we expect to stay colder as the world warms so it's an area which we can think of as a refuge for and preparing winds so if in their refuges very are also vulnerable to severe storm of events and that means those safe places onto safe as we had previously thought. erlanger now of the top stories on al jazeera the death toll in sri lank

researches have expressed the collapse of the key emperor penguin breeding colony in antarctica scientists say penguins have failed to resist chicks at the site. after the ice on which the breed broke up the reddit sea was home to work or worse and largest populations. to sri lanka nonna country on high alert after a series of suicide bombings on easter sunday and officials have now banned drones and manned aircraft and have guided more controlled detonations on suspicious vehicles and. more than three hundred fifty people who died in the attack switched on to churches and hotels sri lanka's president has vowed to take action after intelligence units failed to pass on information about a possible terrorist attack. now muslim leaders in sri lanka say they fear a backlash off the easter sunday attacks the suicide bombings have been condemned by muslim groups but many in the community say they feel vulnerable the w.'s. has sent us this report. she could not him back home after today it's thought he's too scared to spend the night in his house in a consulate for injured another church sunday e

in 2017, cbs news saw firsthand the overall decrease in penguin populations in antarctica.entists predict the emperor population will decrease 50% to 70% by the end of the century. but there was a surprise in the new study. the same satellite imagery showed an increase in a penguin colony more than 30 miles away, which is better suited for breeding. peter fretwell is with the wiitish antarctic survey. at and that gives us confidence that they're probably a little better adapted to climate change than we first thought. >> reporter: for now, a temarkable show of resilience in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> glor: up next here, their about. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to

west antarctica is home to what climate science a surfer too is the most dangerous glacier in the world that clean sure is currently holding on for dear life the thwaites glacier is part of a current of the currently weak underbelly of the west antarctic ice sheet because of the climate change the glacier has lost over six hundred million tons of ice that's the one nine hundred eighty s. now scientists using things like satellite imagery are seeing signs of the collapse has already begun and kids it's not reversible the can't rephrase this so two thirds of the size of the island of manhattan the weights glacier acts as a backstop that keeps the other four glaciers around it attached to each other and you know. not floating around as tall as a ten story building and about the size of the total ice sheet about the size of the state of florida of the west antarctic ice sheet is on track to collapse into the sea but actually raising sea levels to round up ten feet so let's not do that anymore and let's get some not fossil fuels and take care. tragic tragic tragic drugs regard that as a show

took eight telescopes scattered around the world from hawaii to antarctica and beyond to make this possibleus more, we have a caltech professor. >> the kind you only hear about in harry potter novels comic books. emily: here are some questions from my son. where did it come from? where do black holes come from? >> these are the best questions. this is exactly what we talk about in astronomy. where do black holes come from and everyone has their own opinions. this is one of the observations that we think will help us figure this out. the only way to get a big blackhole is to put together a bunch of little things. this thing is billions of times heavier than the earth or than the sun which is thousands of times heavier than the earth. it is a lot of things have smashed together. one of the things we really don't know is do black holes make delicacies or do galaxies make black holes? for the heaviest ones, one of the opinions is that when these are flying around in the center of the galaxy, it is really crowded. occasional pull tracks on each other and eventually slows things down and they all

it took eight telescopes from around the world from hawaii to antarctica to make this possible .about this exciting new frontier, we spoke with experimental physicist. what questions a six-year-old might ask a scientist? >> i think children have the best questions. the reason they are excited is why i am excited. they look at it, and it is something you would never see on earth. the laws of physics going on and making that image are the what you only hear about in harry potter novels or comic books. questions for my six rolled son, where did it come from? where do black holes come from? are the best questions. this is what we talk about at an astronomy conference, where do black holes come from? everyone has their own opinions. this observation will help us figure it out. the only way to get a big lie coal is put together a lot of little things, and this is a billion times heavier than the which is thousands of times heavier than the earth. a lot of things smashed together, and what we do not know, do black holes make galaxies, or do galaxies make black holes? emily: what are the

. >> reporter: pirotta says plastics have even been detected in remote places like antarctica. >> due to awareness around protecting our oceans, not only in australia but hopefully around the world, we're working on ways to protect our marine environment. >> reporter: some areas around the world are starting to take actions against single use plastics, like banning plastic straws, bags and utensils that litter our oceans. changes in attitudes toward plastics make this beach and beaches around the world cleaner. >> we should all do our part. every little bit counts. and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for over, check back with us a morninom the bca centerew yo >>> it's tuesday, april 23. this is the "cbs morning news." democratic divide. lawmakers on the left split over the issue of impeachment while president trump files suit to block them from seeing his finances. the state of emergency in sri lanka. the country mourns the hundreds of lives lost in the eastern terror attack. >>> a plane accident in texas kills six people. what we are

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this plan this is copied something like 300 times around the world, today every continent but antarctica has a prison modern dafter this space. so we walked through cellblock one its one-story high. so cellblock to, cellblock three was almost complete when the prison opened in 1829 and you could be something that changes. the plan had been for seven but before they completed the blueprint they were realizing they were headed for overcrowding trouble, so they said can you give us more cells and he adds them to the second floor and he doesn't like it. you really aren't doing a lot of surveillance on the top floor and the cells are missing some and they don't have the backyard and then on the other side that no skylight, for the little window in the back. the top floor has nothing in the backyard with those prisoners have an empty cell next-door to the outside time would be inside. the reason they are adding extra cells is not the keep them open to some of the indoor yards we used up as space and by the early 1800s, exercise look like a small group of inmates headed together brought into th