Many of these discoveries could be made in tropical rainforests, where it is thought that over half of the worlds species exist. But we are losing these bastions of biodiversity before we even know whats in them. And tropical biologist bill laurance is learning what impact even a small road can havetheir viability. A lot of tree mortality, a lot of deaths. Narror the oceans, t, small changes in a fragile coral reef ecosystem can have lasting effects. Ecologist Jeremy Jackson is finding human impact on the worlds oceans could be setting them on a path of drastic change that he calls the rise of slime. Dr. Jackson if the world becomes a world of slime, then theres not much room for people. Narrator these studies one on land, the other in water are showing just how delicate ecosystems are and what an Important Role biodiversity plays in their ability to endure. Just over 15 miles from the heart of panama city, and steps away from the panama canal, lies Soberania National park, a 55,000acr
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Ca captioning sponsored by cbs news with scott this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. A short phone call but a major breakthrough in relations between the United States and iran. President obama and irans new president rouhani talked today about their desire to reach an agreement on Irans Nuclear program. It was the First Contact between the president s of the two countries since 1979, the year a revolution overthrew the u. S. Backed shah of iran, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile and student radicals seized the u. S. Embassy in tehran, Holding Dozens of americans hostage for 444 days. Major garrett is at the white house with more about the historic phone call and these fastmoving developments. Major . Reporter scott, the iranians called the white house this morning and said president rouhani wanted to speak to president obama today before rouhani left the United Nations General Assembly in new york to return to iran. Mr. Obama placed the call from th
China plans to send out ships to try to find this new object. In the meantime, the search for those other two pieces of or these other objects, i should say, goes on. Were talking about six planes scouring the area for a third day today. No traces were found, however. They came back, at least a kouchl couple of the planes, and found nothing significant. Weather is deteriorating though in the search area. Australian official says the operation going to continue despite that. Also multinational flotilla forming a search. A norwegian cargo ship is already there. Diverted from its onlial end point. Austral australia, malaysia is spending planes to the planets most remote areas. The revelation of the satellite images came as flight cruise wrapped up, as i said, this third day of searches as they look for the other two pieces that we were talking about. Those spotted by an australian satellite but were in a whole new phase of this now because, as you said, were 75 miles away looking at somet
There is increasing hope, no more than hope that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen. Man against nature in one of the worlds most hostile pieces of ocean territory. We look at the challenge of the deep end of the stormy southern part of the indian ocean with its high seas and powerful currents. Plus how in the world does a 777 disappear in an era of gps . And putin pushes. This is obviously a very worrying and fragile situation. The u. S. Russian relationship sours considerably over crimea. What now . Restraining Irans Nuclear weapons. Stopping the slaughter in syria. Then the fourth anniversary of obamacare, the deadline for sign up approaches amid election season. Our Political Panel looks at the nexus between the two. This is state of the union. Im Candy Crowley in washington. The Aerial Search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 is over for the day. There were no significant sightings. Satellite images shows potential objects in the southern corridor of the indian