A joint research program of 33 scientists reveals that up to 27.5 million tons of microplastics are carried to different parts of the world every year.
relative humidity values 5% to 15%. extremely dry, eto ignite the dry brush on the ground. emperor penguins are so large, they can stand as tall as a 6-year-old child. but their relatively imposing height doesn t protect them from our changing climate. as lin la kin dade reports, some colonies in the antarctica may disappear in the next 30 to 40 years. reporter: these emperor penguins are native to antarctica, the largest of all the penguin species. due to climate change, scientists say they re at risk of extinction. unlike adelely penguins which build nests on the continent, these penguins breed directly on marine ice. ice melting puts lives of baby penguins at risk. translator: when the ice platform loses stability, the little penguins, the ones that are growing, the chicks of that season might not have their
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walked out the door - and saw what looks like an immense river that covered everything, that took everything with it. my car was here, swimming about as high as the second floor. and that s not all oil spills are also a side effect of the heavy rains. this pipeline was ruptured by a falling rock in the eastern napo province. oil has contaminated two hectares of the cayambe coca national park and seeped into the river coca, which supplies water to indigenous amazon communities. back in quito, the painful struggle to find survivors continues. aruna iyengar, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: what these adelie and gentoo penguins in antarctica can tell us about global warming. just about global warming. how fast is the ice melting? this is the moment that millions in iran have been waiting for.