potential human remains. reporter: quite right. exactly, jake. and also questions about whether or not something like this could have been prevented. again, this all happening this morning when these officials who were running this massive search, at the time search and rescue operation, the remote operated vehicle that was down on the ocean floor early this morning at 8:55 a.m. came across that debris field. right now what they are doing is the r.o.v.s are still there on the ocean floor, still trying to map the ocean floor, still trying to figure out exactly what is down there in terms of debris. the coast guard earlier today, the rear admiral gave his assessment of exactly what happened and in addition to that a deep sea expert weighed in on exactly what was found. we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the titan. the initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull. we then found a large de
Well have the latest on that in os sport. Scientists in australia say two thirds of the coral on the Great Barrier reef have been damaged in the past two years. The damage is called bleaching it happens when corals under stress drive out the algae that give them colour. And bleaching is caused by rising Ocean Temperatures which in turn are linked to global warming. The reef is off the queensland coast in australias north east. Theres been two consecutive years of bleaching and thats particularly bad. This is one of the studys researchers. That means that even when mass bleaching events happen 12 months apart theres no prospect of recovery for reefs damaged in 2016. The bbcs science editor david shukmans latest report looks at the issue. A world of brilliant colour, teeming with life. This is the Great Barrier reef at its best the largest single biological structure on earth, but vulnerable to the slightest change. This is how part of reefs look, a ghostly white. The corals more like a
Well have the latest on that in os sport. Scientists in australia say two thirds of the coral on the Great Barrier reef have been damaged in the past two years. The damage is called bleaching it happens when corals under stress drive out the algae that give them colour. And bleaching is caused by rising Ocean Temperatures which in turn are linked to global warming. The reef is off the queensland coast in australias north east. Theres been two consecutive years of bleaching and thats particularly bad. This is one of the studys researchers. That means that even when mass bleaching events happen 12 months apart theres no prospect of recovery for reefs damaged in 2016. The bbcs science editor david shukmans latest report looks at the issue. A world of brilliant colour, teeming with life. This is the Great Barrier reef at its best the largest single biological structure on earth, but vulnerable to the slightest change. This is how part of reefs look, a ghostly white. The corals more like a
(VOVWORLD) -National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will operate a free flight carrying needy workers from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi on January 29 as part of efforts to re-unite them with their families during the Lunar New Year (Tet).
Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen (NCP) on Wednesday stated to Helsingin Sanomat that discussions with Chinese officials about the incident have been had at the diplomatic level.