the best remedy for the climate nature that's what researchers that is your technology institute are saying by their calculations planting trees is the most efficient way to beat the climate crisis they say it is possible to halt global warming at a price of $1.00 degrees celsius and that 2 thirds of c o 2 emissions caused by human activity could be absorbed by reforestation as soon as we start here for over storage and you start to be effective you start to capture carbon back in the ecosystem ok but you know that to reach that total amount of course is going to take several decades the earth is covered with $2800000000.00 hectares of forest researchers say $900000000.00 additional hector's could be planted that's about a 3rd of what already exists. space for the new trees could be found mainly in russia but there is also enough room to plant trees in other industrialized countries according to researchers they've been looking for natural solutions and to restore destroyed ecosystems. they intentionally left out cities and farmland few. really and grid. systems so we should respect

one of the report's co-authors is professor tom crowther from the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich a welcome to d w didn't we already know the trees absorb carbon dioxide and there are lots of tree planting schemes already out there to offset environmental damage . yes you're exactly right we've known that trees are an amazing carbon trap from the last well over the last century and there are projects out there trying to promote restoration but what this new study shows is actually we've got the 1st quantitative understanding of how much that can achieve and it's actually 10 times more than we previously expected placing restoration far far higher than the next best climate change lucian so it's really about figuring out the best ways to allocate our resources and now we know that restoration is a powerful way ok a trillion trees sounds like an awful lot how much space is that going to take out where would they go. so that's what we've modeled is where trees can exist on the planet and when you subtract away existing urban land and agricultural land we're left with the wo

from the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich visits the mountains twice a year once in spring and again in autumn when the season begins. they investigate how much fresh snow fall there was in winter and the thickness of the snow cover over the ice the mall snow that has been the better the condition of the glazier today the 25th of april 28th it's in better shape than it's been for a while. more than 5 meters of snow fell in winter. jamba itself. we've measured snow water equivalent at 7 glaciers across what's our land our measurements showed that in 2018 snow cover was well above average. and there wasn't quite as much snow depth everywhere and switzerland as there was here but it doesn't look like there was perhaps as much as 50 percent more than in a normal year st neots. first will be back in autumn. there are plenty of people who see the healthy snow fall as proof that climate change is a mess. but in europe's highest mountain ranges the evidence is all around in italy switzerland austria slovenia and germany. the environmental research station she found a house is locat

events because of climate change it's also a long term plan there's been a massachusetts institute of technology study that says that by the end of the century 80 percent of india's massive population would be exposed to extreme weather conditions that are not natural for human beings unless by mature and action a stick now to have long term repercussions this could be become the norm so in absence of long term funding there but what about in the short term what sort of example is available for these flood victims well the primary source of help has the security forces and places like bunk that there's also an international presence to help refugees in places like fox is bizarre these are unique challenge of being a law like country and 80 percent of it is it is full of planes which is why the even more prone to flooding because of this and of course the helpline set up there are security forces that are released council on the other hand the challenge is that many of the next few forces are not able to reach people in nepal for example communication dots have fallen down key highways have been

is a system that we worked with a professor from the illinois institute of technology an academic partner here in chicago to be able to assess and analyze those people that are at the greatest risk of being a party to violence this system is able to prioritize and tell us those individuals that we really have to focus on the work with to try to prevent that violence when you have so many different datasets or you have so many cameras watch which ones do we watch social media right so many different social media communications out there how do you know what the concentrate on that's what our predictive aspect towards is for teacher of subject list that's what i thought. when i heard of this story for the 1st time i thought now it's finally happening hollywood has eventually merged with real life software that predicts where and when the next crime occurs police that arrive at the crime scene before the perpetrator computers that generate lists with tomorrow's murderers. pre-crime they call it. a friend writes to me there's something foreign lumen on the horizon and we can only guess that a

he is of the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich.e are talking about one trillion new trees. that is a lot of trays. is there really aon the planet where conditions are just right to grow trees? >> this is what we did in our study. it is the first time we managed to quantify what could be done on the planet. our model is only based on climate data. on this combination of variables that we observed in natural conditions. we can have that amount of trays. -- trees. just based on those conditions. brent: is there a certain type of tree that is better for helping to fight climate change? >> it allows me to make an important point. the idea that we are defending his we need to restore the natural ecosystem. we do not support the idea of planting eucalyptus or pine trees everywhere around the globe. we can restore the natural ecosystem. we need to respect the local species to preserve the local biodiversity. all of the forest ecosystems shelter 80% of the biodiversity we can find on land. it is very important to respect local conditions. b

have experience building other technologies and financial institutions.hink they are doing just regulatory arbitrage. >> that was joe carlson and founder and ceo of the cryptocurrency research firm. up, bracing for impact, tropical storm barry making landfall as a hurricane tomorrow. the impact on the energy industry. this is bloomberg. the u.s. gulf coast is bracing for impact. the tropical storm is intensifying as it takes aim at parts of louisiana and mississippi, threatening key energy import infrastructure. on how weather will impact the futures market. hurricane mayis be heading, looks like it may hit about 70% of u.s. lng capacity. effect on assume the the energy market? most of the natural gas production treats us now on when -- mostly shale production. this really depends on whether we have a hot summer more than this hurricane. storm for some explosiveness. when you look at the price action we have been seeing ahead of the storm, these price spikes, are they going to be temporary or more long-lasting? >> now having hot dry weather. i think with

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subject list is called the s s l is a system that we worked with a professor from the illinois institute of technology an academic partner here in chicago to be able to assess and analyze those people that are at the greatest risk of being a party to violence this system is able to prioritize and tell us those individuals that we really have to focus on the work with the try to prevent that violence when you have so many different datasets or you have so many cameras watch which ones do we watch social media right so many different social media communications out there how do you know what the concentrate on that's what our predictive aspect towards a strategic subject list that's what i thought. when i heard of this story for the 1st time i thought now it's finally happening hollywood has eventually merged with real life software that predicts where and when the next crime occurs police that arrive at the crime scene before the perpetrator computers that generate lists with tomorrow's murderers. pre-crime they call it. a friend writes to me there's something foreign lumen on the horizon and we can on

local time at california institute technology supplies mileages says the quake is the strongest to hitn california in 2 years. she says it was preceded by about a half-hour earlier. they're were no immediate reports of major injuries or damage, at least one house fire was reported in ridgecrest. dozens of aftershocks are being reported and another strong quake is said to be possible. >> there is about a one in 20 chance that this location will be having an even bigger earthquake within the next few days, but we have not yet seen the biggest earthquake of the season sequence. >> they took to social media to ask people to only call 911 for emergencies consistency of injuries or other dangerous conditions. present from tweeted that he'd been fully briefed on the situation and all seemed under control, we will have more on the earthquake during an extended two hour addition of special report starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern. the national mall right now is filling up in preparation for president trump salute to america. we will have complete coverage, now back to the five. ♪ singing i will nev

progress if nothing is done right now about this in fact there is a study by the massachusetts institute of technology that predicts that 80 percent off just for predation ville be exposed to extreme weather conditions by the end of the century if more action is not taken right now it's to prove and or the fact that climate change is having in the subcontinent bangladesh's facing some special challenges with hundreds of thousands of refugees from being more now in the country will will these refugees be getting the help that they need. but bangladesh of course has a very specific and of a unique challenge and we have lots of bizarre we've seen visuals from there of people in temporary housing is trying to keep up the must light since april has taken lives and is also a product of heavy rainfall but bangladesh also is different from india and nepal in that the regions we're talking about in india and nepal are more mountainous regions while bangladesh itself is a low lying country 80 percent of the country is floodplain says way prone to flooding and other populations and none of these are also all so

technologies. witnesses include officials from the u.s. customs and border protection, u.s. secret service, national institute of standards and technology and the tsa. bennie thompson chairs the homeland security committee. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of homeland security's use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. good morning. the committee on homeland security is meeting to examine the department of homeland security's use of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. the government's use of biometrics is not entirely new. for example, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. other biometrics include dna, voice pattern, and palm prints. in recent years, facial recognition has become the new chosen form of biometric technology. as facial recognition technology has advanced, it's used by the government and the priva

finally, the bill authorizes funding too allow the national institute of standards and technology, nist, and the department of nverage, to to continue standing up one additional institute in 2020 and each year thereafter. the real strength of the institutes lies in consortium model, who contribute 50% of the funding. in 017 alone, manufacturing u.s.a. raised over almost $180 million for investments in private sector partners from nearly 1,300 manufacturers, community colleges, government labs, and n.g.o.'s. they are only able to do this because the federal government sets the stable and provides support in the planning, development, management, and operation of each institute. the manufacturing u.s.a. institutes provide critical u.s. global leadership in advanced manufacturing. the institutes serve as a unique collaborative platform for industry and academia to engage in best in class expertise to solve challenges and usher in new innovations. the program is making incredible strides in work forest development for the future and existing work force. for example, in 2017, our lightweight

technology that they call. even established institutions like the country's central bank. potential it's approved more than 30 cryptocurrency platforms but it also wants to have some control over the technology. we did this allow the use of virtual currencies like the theory. is that the regulated entities that actually accept. these guys of virtual currencies because once you regulate the. requirements. the philippines has approved more crypto currency providers than practically any other country on the planet. the prevalence of mobile phones in today's world has been a massive boon to financial startups. so big that people go to the virus. was 1st put banking to the. scene of the banks of the bank. by putting. them back in the smart interim much more accessible canuto launched has out this year it allows users to pay for things and transfer money directly via smartphone you know we're not here to disrupt the existing systems are here to work with them and to connect with them and we want everybody to benefit. by connecting our up to existing systems you know it makes it i

. >> they said it will be a technology hub, then an a.i. instituter: the drama has h eowners furious, too. this is prairie view drive. this road used to lead into an entire neighborhood of houses, they've been cleared out and now the residence have been asking, was it worth it? kim is one ofem th. she built her custom home. >> the whole process has been somewhatf a nightmare. >> now her house is the last standing. her neighbors took offers to move out and raze their home. she received a lowbalance appraisal, she says, so she toad der ground. >> i't trust anything our president says.>> reporter: nbc requested interviews with foxconn. the company says it looks forward to du beginning proion in late 2020. the local government tells us they rye main optimistic, with a deal lulling strong taxpayer protection. b have residenn taking for a ride? >> there's a reafear we've been taken for a ride. our only hope is they build someing. >>> when we come back, the biggest musical instrument in the instrument in the d orlfinally making sing my car insurance was the

at that einstein papers project in pasadena at the california institute of technology. at theo end of 1930. he had been invited by the president of the california institute of technology to visit almost as soon as caltech was found. a universitye around 1920. robert milligan was one of the founders of caltech. he came from chicago. he knew of einstein's work. he knew him personally. towanted einstein to come this new institution to graces this new institution especially after einstein won the nobel prize in physics at the end of 1922. he arrived here just before new year's eve, 1931. he was driven in a motorcade from long beach to pasadena by the chairman of the board of trustees of caltech, arthur fleming. with whom he stayed with few nights. was watchthing he did the rose parade in pasadena in 1931. einstein was very famous by then , and he was followed by journalists every day. he was appointed a visiting researcher at caltech. he did not have to teach. he participated in seminars. he gave lectures. those lectures were not always publicized because they were afraid to

technologies. witnesses include officials from the u.s. customs and border protection, u.s. secret service, national institute of standards and technology and the tsa. bennie thompson chairs the homeland security committee.

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dava newman, the apollo professor of astronautics and engineering at the massachusetts institute of technology. she is one of the few people i can say has a better job title than i do. really amazing. about the will talk next generation of responsive materials for spacesuits to make these formfitting spacecraft truly a perfect fit for exploration. i will call on our first speaker to talk about the apollo legacy and spacesuits. [applause] bill: thank you for that wonderful introduction. it is quite an honor to be invited to join this panel. i thank you for coming tonight. let's start with the slide presentation. i have five minutes to cover 40 to 50 years of history of apollo, so i will make this pretty fast. i start with the humble beginnings. this is a very early spacesuit developed by our engineer developing suits at the time. to support the vision of future humans working in space. glenn sheppard was an engineer working on the helmets. you can see one in the photo. they were used by the air force in high altitude suits. he realized that the future of humans in space was not far off. no true

technology like hydrogen and carbon captured storage? and much more. one final piece before i go into key findings , the scenarios developed by these institutions very and their assumptions about policies, technologies, and other factors. many of these institutions produce multiple scenarios where the assumptions vary , and it includes 12 different scenarios in this years of global energy outlook which is shown here. we organize a scenarios into three different groups. first are what we call references scenarios. generally assume that governments don't enact new policies. and technology evolves along recent trends. we represent the scenarios with a e- line next to the slide. and then policy scenarios which are announced government policies. visa scenarios are meant to do a better job of estimating how policies can unfold rather than assuming that they are static. we represent visa scenarios with a solid line. and finally the third group of scenarios we call ambitious climate scenarios. they are built around achieving long-term climate goals of less than 20c of warming by the year 2100. we represent those with a dotted line. let's turn to some of the hea

institutions. and it is based on blockchain technology, very different to a traditional bank account where you canney chain, as it were. well, blockchain actually does leave a digital paper trail and a lot of concern about libra and other currencies is are they being used by bad actors? there are digital records of transactions which do allow investigators to police, and we have been successful in actually tracking down on bad actors who use crypto currencies. so from your perspective the concerns of steve mnuchin, jerome powell and others that libra, bitcoin and other digital currencies could be used for money laundering or buying drugs or even human trafficking, those concerns are not valid? no, they are valid, and certainly people have used crypto currencies for bad things, no question about it. but there are a growing set of tools investigators can use to kind of investigate the trail of transactions on a blockchain, and facebook will be trying to explain that to congress over the next two days, how this can actually help in cracking down on bad actors. david marcus, who will oversee libra for

is a system that we worked with a professor from the illinois institute of technology an academic partner here in chicago to be able to assess and analyze those people that are at the greatest risk of being a party to violence this system is able to prioritize and tell us those individuals that we really have to focus on the work with to try to prevent that violence when you have so many different datasets or you have so many cameras watch which ones do we watch social media right so many different social media communications out there how do you know what the concentrate on that's what our predictive aspect towards a strategic subject list that's what i thought. when i heard of this story for the 1st time i thought now it's finally happening hollywood has eventually merged with real life software that predicts where and when the next crime occurs police arrived at the crime scene before the perpetrator computers that generate lists with tomorrow's murderers. pre-crime they call it. a friend writes to me there's something foreign lumen on the horizon and we can only guess that a question

he is currently a senior research psychologist at the american institute for behavioral research and technology and he is a contributing editor for "the scientific american mind." he's also the founder and director emeritus for the cambridge center of behavioral studies in massachusetts and former editor in chief of "psychology today." mr. prager, we'll start with you. >> microphone. >> okay. do i get my 20 seconds back? >> you would think a radio host would know -- >> you would. you would. that is a very fine point. i have no response. i will take just a moment, because my opening comment is under five minutes, just to respond on the issue of the ten commandments video that was placed on the restricted list by google. the representative from google mentioned that a reason that it would be on the restricted list was that it contains mentions of murder. so i was thinking i have a solution that will, i think, appeal to google. i will re-release it has "the nine commandments." that should solve the discussion of including murder in my ten commandments. swastika is in the commandment of do not murd

carried out in partnership with the department of homeland security, the national institute for standards in technology, and the national science foundation would involve technical assistance, education and work force. one of the aspects of cyber security that i think is often underappreciated is the fact that it is also a work force issue. we don't have enough people trained in working in cyber security today as we need and there will be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of more openings in the next few years. many of which in my home area of pittsburgh, the great work done at carnegie melon, and the university of pittsburgh's cyber law institute among others, training people up for this. that's what these kinds of programs are going to authorize. we're excited to talk about them. with that i'll recognize the ranking member mr. weber for an opening statement. >> thank you, chairman lamb for hosting this hearing. i was asking what the population of pittsburgh is. the metro area is about 1 1/2 million. is that about right? that's a lot of electricity but we appreciate you hosting this hear

is a system that we worked with a professor from the illinois institute of technology and academic partnerhere in chicago to be able to assess and analyze those people that are at the greatest risk of being a party to violence this system is able to prioritize and tell us those individuals that we really have to focus on the work with the try to prevent that violence when you have so many different datasets or you have so many cameras watch which ones do we watch social media right so many different social media communications out there how do you know what the concentrate on that's what are predictive aspect towards is for teaching subjects list that's what i thought. when i heard of this story for the 1st time i thought now it's finally happening hollywood has eventually merged with real life. software that predicts where and when the next crime occurs police arrive at the crime scene before the perpetrator computers that generate lists with tomorrow's murderers. pre-crime they call it. a friend writes to me there's something foreign lumen on the horizon and we can only guess that a ques

the province of san luis to have a look and scientist from the american mit, massachusetts institute of technologyphs and study the phenomenon. i recall many years back when there was a total eclipse in europe and the birds went quiet and everything went still. what is the atmosphere like as the light changes? we are in the middle of the city so we have got the noise of the ca i’s city so we have got the noise of the cars in the traffic but it has got quite cold now. it is much chillier than earlier, even though it is winter, it should be called, it is feeling colder and it is getting the colour of the light very peculiar. it is dark but it is a different kind of dark to your usual and of the day and winter in buenos aires fulsome and as you said, you are reckoned that we are in the middle ofa reckoned that we are in the middle of a park area and i don't into be able to hear the birds. so you right, that is another of the effects and you can actually feel here and actually again it feels quite chilly. thank you very much indeed. talking to us. because in the feed coming from nasa of the full eclip

he is also a physics professor at the massachusetts institute of technology. it's good to see you. >> good to see you, ali. >> look, we've laid out what iran may be trying to do. i think the first thing we need to understand is for people who think that we're headed toward either the nuclearization of iran or a conflict with iran. give me your analysis of this. can iran get to a stage where the can develop nuclear weapons any time in the near future? >> well, first of all, we already know that iran did have a structured nuclear weapons program up through 2003. so they certainly have a lot of -- had a lot of work in that direction. but by the same token, there is pretty wide agreement that since that time, they have not had anything like a structured program. now, the jcpoa, the iran deal, as you described, already gave us a really solid way of making sure that iran never went to a nuclear weapon. what i want to emphasize is the piece that has not been raised so far in this discussion. that is that the real strength of the deal is in all of the verification mea

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george she's electric kill university who specializes in green technology and in hong kong via skype we have chia he is the director of the institute of public policy at the hong kong university of science and technology welcome to you all let me start with you are not what we've just seen there in his report how widespread is the lack of waste processing in india and one of the biggest challenges that the government faces in trying to address it. india is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in the world just its urban population would be the world's 3rd largest country by population so against this kind of massive push of people to the cities there is certainly a major challenge of managing solid waste. and most of the whizzed cities don't doesn't get processed so what that does is it has an impact on the local environment in terms of the landfill and the bethany's and the sions etc it also has an impact in terms of the last economic opportunity that the could get if we decided to use waste as a resource rather than only something to throw it. well are not are not what we're seeing in india is a global problem so let's also ta