But first, the scientists need to get there. Its so difficult to operate here all of the planes are grounded. They say we wont fly anywhere. One only does anything in antarctica with the cooperation of the weather. Antarctica is a place of extremes. It is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on earth. Capped by an ice sheet of up to five kilometres thick, this continent contains 90 of the worlds ice. I begin myjourney in new zealand. I dont need your passport, thats all good. They say travelling to antarctica is like travelling to another planet. So, here goes. The us air force provides the planes. The safety briefing may be familiar, but nothing else about this flight is. Im travelling with professor david vaughan, the director of science at the British Antarctic survey. After flying due south for five hours, i get my first glimpse of antarctica, snow and ice stretching as far as the eye can see. Finally, our destination. We are heading to mcmurdo. Which is pretty much
Cornish plus, after her doctors told her she had just a few months to live, how one woman fought her cancer with help from a novel treatment. I think it actually took a day or two to fully sink in that my calendar had expanded. Instead of the coming demise that we expected, i was feeling fine. And the cancer was retreating. Cornish all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Xq institute. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds 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 information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was m
Has never been stronger that is the message from Public Health england after a review has found that being overweight greatly increases your chances of being hospitalised or dying if you have covid 19. Ministers are due to publish a new strategy for tackling obesity this week. Simonjones has the story. The warning from Health Officials is clear. If youre overweight or obese and get coronavirus, youre more likely to end up in hospital, more likely to become critically ill. This graph illustrates the scale of the problem, based on a study of over 19,000 people who have tested positive for covid 19. It shows the bigger the bmi, or body mass index, the risk of intensive care increases. Someone who is severely obese has over four times the risk compared to someone who is the normal weight. Being overweight increases the chances of insulin resistance. It puts up your blood pressure. And all of these extra pressures and strains on the body are likely to be part of the reason why people when t
England, but there is a warning, up toa england, but there is a warning, up to a third may stay shut because of financial troubles. British grown musician wiley is dropped by his management following a stream of anti semitic comments on his social media accounts. Peter green, the influential blues guitarist and co founder of the band Fleetwood Mac has died at the age of 73. Antarctica is one of the worlds most remote places. We went to see the so called doomsday glazier. Domesday glacier. Antarctica the worlds most remote and inhospitable consonant. This is the story of a team of scientists who are trying to get to thwaites, the so called doomsday glacier. No one has really been under thwaites, and what icefins going to do is get up and close to the sea floor and allow us to see what is happening in a real way. Oh, oh look at that 0h yeah what happens to thwaites affects us all because as it melts it will drive up the sea level around the world. This glacier is part of a system. If it
The black lives matter protest has shone a light on racial inequality in britain, prompting calls for schools in written to teach black history. Also highlighting some of the issues black teachers face in the uk, such as discrimination and barriers to getting promotion. Currentlyjust over 196 promotion. Currentlyjust over 1 of Senior Leaders and schools are black. Good morning class. Woah this assistant principal has helped thousands of pupils in bristol helped reach their full potential. But for some black teachers, reaching theres is fraught with barriers. This is a teaching before the pandemic. She believes racism causes many teachers to leave the profession. I have had experience of someone saying i dont want to work with you because you are black. I have had a parent is not wanting to engage with me or listen to me because of the colour of my skin. I have had that overt racism but what ive also had is what people would say the unconscious or the not so direct we have had to deal w