captioning sponsored by cbs live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. now at 6:00, trading one quarantined for another, a plane filled with coronavirus headed to the bay area right now. plus, a golf cart is math s master to smithereens the following two stories, the teen joyride that went horribly wrong. and, the car break-in crackdown, why one lawmaker says his new approach could be the answer to the growing epidemic. good evening, i m juliette goodrich, tonight we are following a plane packed with coronavirus evacuees who never who fled a quarantined cruise ship just hours away from landing right here in the bay area. maria medina is live at travis air force base, where the cruise passengers are hours
in the early 80s we saw big reductions in water fowl populations. reporter: an act of congress and agreement with mexico and canada in 1986 turned the tide. and so did rice farmers like kurt richter who agreed to flood their fields when water fowl migrate. access to winter water is not that difficult as long as we are not in a drought period, so we have the opportunity to pump water off of the river and shoot it out on to this ground, and create what you see behind me here. reporter: all together, rice farmers in the central valley flood about 250,000 acres each winter to provide wetlands for birds using the pacific flyway. by the time growing season starts again, the birds will be gone and the farmers will get their land back. knowing they have given nature a little boost. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. quijano: that s the cbs weekend news for this sunday, 60 minutes is coming up. i m elaine quijano in new york. good night.
in the global carbon cycle. a little experiment to illustrate the point. take a stick and swish it around in the mud and a lot of those bubbles coming up are likely to be methane. fresh water is responsible for around one quarter of the net carbon dioxide and methane going from the earth s surface into the atmosphere although that could be about to change. we push it through the filter, water goes through the other side and all the microbes stay on the paper, and then we take that back to the lab and we look at what is there. we know that some microbes are just producing methane and some don t. so as the climate is changing, it may change with microbes that are there and it can produce different outcomes. we just need to stop filming while this family comes through. did you get a picture? i think i did. what eleanor has in her hands like a giant flashlight. based on the type of light that bounces back, we can tell what types of algae are growing. so algae, like trees, takes the co2 o
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the culprit, climate change, greenhouse gases heating up the water and air when we burn coal, oil, and gas. the largest glaciers have been speeding up in recent times in response to a warmer ocean. reporter: this doctor is one of the authors of the study published this week. using satellite surveys, scientists from more than 40 international groups found antarctica shed three trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2017, adding .3 to sea level rise. doesn t sound like much, but if the trend continues, we could see three feet of sea level rise by the end amica s century it will be a sort of flooding that s not going to recede. flooding of streets and neighborhoods that s not going to go away once the water evaporates. reporter: today most of the ice loss comes from west antarctica where two glaciers are in rapid retreat. and an ice shelf collapse in the antarctic peninsula.