The future of World Heritage sites is being discussed in azerbaijan at the annual meeting of the uns cultural and Scientific Agency and a 3rd of the 166. 00 sites are considered to be under threat and they include sunderbans mangrove forests in bangladesh its facing several dangers both natural and manmade as victoria gayton be explains. A complex network of waterways mudflats and islands makes this into bands unique one of the Worlds Largest mangrove forests forms a natural wall protecting both bangladesh and neighboring india as well as nearly 4000000 people that live near the coast. The defects of Climate Change and industrialization a becoming increasingly visible like millions of fish men and women salim how it relies on the scene demands for his livelihood but fears that could end soon much of bangladesh is less than 5 metres above sea level and Global Warming is causing sea levels to rise further the mangroves face various threats such as pollution and changing levels of salinit
Killing of solomon ticket is a topic here in israel. Hong kong leader kerry wants to meet University Students who are in this weeks protests her offer of talks follows the arrest of dozens of people for storming the citys legislature mcbride has the details. Police have begun making a number of arrests of people that they say were involved in the storming of this building on monday thats in addition to arrest theyd already made for violent clashes in protests over the previous few weeks but their numbers are relatively few given the hundreds of thousands whove been protesting largely peacefully despite that local prodemocracy lawmaker here has claimed that the police have been acting on beijings orders and effectively rounding up the troublemakers. Simmering worrying because its so obvious by now that Hong Kong Police started to conduct a massive round. Protest that was. Obviously also. Painting poking some stink the police of course would deny that theyre subject to any political inte
Research more transparency and most allusions to tackle at pollution florence aljazeera jakarta and staying with the environment deforestation in brazils portion of the amazon rain forest soared by more than 88 percent in june compared to the Previous Year president j are both in our own made it easier for companies to convert the amazon into farmland a move denounced by environmentalists well germanys car makers are continuing their push towards cleaner greener vehicles electric prototypes are now common among the industrys biggest names but there are concerns that a lack of charging infrastructure will keep consumers from making the switch dominic came reports from the heartland of germanys auto industry. This is the e. Q. See the sadies most recent venture into the electric car market a vehicle for their green ambitions to replace fossil fueled engines says leone had given every possibility to change the recuperation roads so in some situations you want to get back thats macho energ
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57 newsroom here at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, an investigation is under way into a Helicopter Crash off the bahamas that killed seven americans. Authorities say the chopper went down two miles off Big Grand Cay island yesterday. It was flying to ft. Lauderdale, florida. All seven onboard, four men and three women died. One of the victims is chris cline from beckley, west virginia. Hes described as a billionaire entrepreneur and a coal tycoon. Another earthquake may be coming in days. Yesterday a 6. 4 magnitude quake rattled the mohave desert. It sparked several fires, damaged homes and businesses, and caused multiple injuries. It was felt in nevada. But the epicenter was in ridgecrest, california, about 100 miles from los angeles. Carter evans has the report. Reporter residents in ridgecrest were hardest hit. It caused this home go up in flames. Homes broke into flames and supermarket items flew off the shelves. Bottles littered t