thousand people have gathered outside parliament in berlin. now on bbc news, the travel show. america s northwest is a place like no other. i m on a journey up through seattle and the last frontier alaska. previously, i explored seattle, in washington state, to find a city connected deeply to the natural world. and in alaska s capital, i saw how the prospect of gold still captures people s imaginations to this day. oh, look at that! chuckles you seeing it? we got some gold! chuckling continues how about that? how about, my friend? laughs what a way to experience alaska! so, this time, i m carrying on myjourney through alaska to see how people here continue to adapt to the natural world around them. you really have to plan your life and your day to day routines around what nature will allow you to do that day. ..even when it is changing at pace. all this area that s collapsed, this was completely full of water, about 14 billion gallons and it all rushed out underneath the
i m in alaska s state capital ofjuneau. it s a place dominated by nature, which can have a big impact here as i m about to find out. i ve been reliably informed that, given the terrain around here, these things are basically like taxis. got an eight minute flight. i ve never been in a helicopter! let s go! i m meeting up with university of alaska southeast scientists, eran hood and abby watts. oh, man, i m so excited! they ve invited me to tag along as they conduct their research on the changing environment here. oh, yes, here we go! just look out there. 0h, we re going to be in for such a fun time. so, we re just coming into view now of mendenhall glacier, which is about 13 miles wide incredible. and it s one of the many thousands of glaciers in alaska. this basin that we re coming into all this area that s collapsed this was completely full of water. and it all rushed out underneath the glacier down into juneau. last summer, water amounting to about 30,000 0lympic s