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Turkeys top election body has ordered a rerun of his some bulls maryla lection the decision comes after the a k partially of president batch of tayyip erdogan now really lost the vote and challenge the result sizing irregularities the opposition has condemned the decision calling is quote playing dictatorship. a un report says a million species of plants and animals are at risk of extinction because of human activity pushing nature in its worst shape in human history the report says its not too ...

The extent to which we benefit from it even if he is. joining me now is the ranch and hes the the abuse environment reporter as youve already read the report it sounds very serious but this first why are these particular species at risk from extinction a million of them. youre right im rita its one of the most comprehensive studies of life on earth and its main finding is that a million species are at risk of extinction primarily through human activity and you can see that in the way weve treate...

To south america where they decimate the native b. species this invasion is happening as a direct result of human activity here is what the lead scientists of the un report said today about what all of this means moving forward. we humans up a turban our planet badly weve already lost two pesetas all animal and plant species and another twenty percent of animal and plant species an insect threatened with extinction and so up to five hundred thousand to a million species are threatened with extin...

A tweet. doing your bit sharing your story. can big data help us study the effects of changing ecology germany colleges stephon stall is trying to find out just that at one top national park in germany once the variables that identified the data can potentially be used to study how the national park has evolved over many decades allowing us to study the good and the bad effects of human activity it has endured shows how hes breaking it down. these trees are being felled but for a good cause sunl...

>> see, i knew you knew what all of that meant. happy spring. thats all for tonight. well be back tomorrow with more mtpda daily. "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. happy spring. >> i have one item before you go. i know you dont know what im about to say because i havent discussed with this you, but you and your "meet the press" team just met a walter cronkite award. we pulled a clip from your award-winning piece. take a look. >> were not going to debate climate change, the existence o...

And looking to put republicans on the defensive. chuck? >> we are totally unified. everybody knows this bill is a sham and we are going to ask our republican colleagues to answer three super questions. thus far they refused into the improved one, climate change real? two, is caused by human activity customer three, should congress do something about? the fact they are free to answer those three simple questions with no prescription as to what to do puts them on defense. and thats where we have t...

That is healthy and habitable. and it is really a disgrace and an embarrassment that we have a president who rejects science, who does not even understand that climate change is real and caused by human activity, who does not understand what this planet will look like in years to come if we do not go forward boldly and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels. >> lets continue with climate change right now, michelle gregory has a question, shes from the eastern shore of maryland. >> he...

Bernie sanders has made his career out of what they say keeping fossil fuels in the ground. the probable is he cant keep from using them lavishly in the air. this is rank hypocrisy on the level to could compete. outside of al gore electoral politics bernie was the guy as the number one climate guru and here he is just cant keep himself out of these private jets. he could have flown commercial. pete: we just played what bernie sanders said in the past. this is new sound. listen. >> when i talk ab...

Dust storms are scourge of modern life in much of the world in order to produce a dust storm you need wind and we need soil particles calm down in this film we look at malta dust storm moves the dust storm is actually run the visibility is less than the climate. and how human activity is making and once. we focus on the middle east such a being called one of the walls was to his face. during the dust storm season patients get severe attacks us and thats required hospital admission and intensive ...

Up to china. dust has been blowing around the world for millennia dust storms are a natural phenomenon but the world is getting hotter and in many places dryer. scientists see clear evidence that human activity is making dust storms while the science behind the storms is fascinating we think that twenty to twenty five percent could be attributed to human activity so something called the dust bowl syndrome which is associated with poor land management where the topsoil becomes aerosolize like tin...