Mesothelial not well send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt in washington. Thank you so much for joining morning us today. We begin with a developing story on capitol hill. The senate says, it will take up the 95 of foreign aid package on tuesday day. That was just passed by House Lawmakers just hours ago and a special session on this saturday package includes billions and military aid for ukraine, israel, and taiwan as well as billions for humanitarian aid. We have reporters covering reaction from washington to ukraine and jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox Live On capitol hill. So lauren, how did this get pushed through . And what does it mean for Speaker Johnsons job . Yeah. There are a lot of questions about what this means for Speaker Johnsons future after this vote today, despite the overwhelming bipartisan support for this series of sap elemental bills, what you s
on to these ecosystems for dear life, essentially joining us now is dr. emily pigeon a climate scientist whose work has made her a leader in discovering new solutions to climate change documented thank you so much for being with us today. help us understand these carbons systems more and their impact on climate change so as we know, are we searching for the solution to climate change and visitors multiple pieces to this, you know, we ve all talked about the need to reduce emissions ends various technological solutions, but the solution that is right in front of us that we can act on right now is nature. nature provides some of the most immediate solutions for addressing climate change. and about ten to 15 years ago now, we discovered that coastal wetlands systems, these mangroves, seagrasses this is the salt marshes that are highlighted so beautifully in this film are amazing at taking
carbon out of the atmosphere and the ocean and then burying it in the soil below them as we saw in that clip there that black mud, muddy. the. mud that we think of when we think of coastal swamps, is this amazing long term storage of carbon and it s kept there for millennia we beginning to appreciate now, we re beginning to see countries really understand how important their coastal wetlands systems, these salt marshes, seagrasses, mangroves, as part of their full climate solution dr. pigeons, there s no shortage of incredibly alarming studies, reports documentaries on this earth, de, on monday, what s your message? my message is that the solution to climate change needs all of us. it needs everybody from government to corporations to communities, to every single individual.