pattern globally. rising sea temperatures and increasing numbers of marine heatwaves. and it has just reached a new peak, 20.96 degrees celsius, the highest global average sea temperature ever recorded. the world s warming waters are a dangerous trend, say experts. people s perspective is that the ocean is so big, so vast, that it can buffer anything that humanity can throw at it. and the reality is that s not the case. everything has its niche within the ocean, and it s incredibly easy to to break that niche and influence it and upset it. take plankton. these tiny plants and animals are crucial to life on the planet. they re the basis of the entire marine food chain and produce half the oxygen in our atmosphere. so, every other breath you take. and they are sensitive to heat. many species have been migrating north as the world s oceans warm. personally, i m really concerned. the heatwaves that we re experiencing on land and the marine heatwaves that we re seeing are happenin
global systems that we have in the oceans. it is important to say that these are sea surface temperatures. it is also about the time of year. so normally the oceans are at their hottest in march, but we are obviously now in august. and so scientists are worried about all of that time left until next march. there is also el nino which is less naturally occurring climate fluctuation which we have talked about it before. it happens every few years but it does drive up ocean temperatures. but we are only at the beginning of that now, it is quite weak and so as not to get stronger in the coming months, scientists say they fear these average temperatures will just carry they fear these average temperatures willjust carry on going up. what do scientists think is the cause? scientists know that in the long term, climate change is driving up average temperatures in the oceans. they also think that a lot of the heat, or they know that a lot of the heat, or they know that a lot of the h
the center of our galaxy the first image of it ever captured. announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone the nationwide shortage of infant formula is growing more acute tonight, leaving more parents in a desperate hunt for the nutrition their babies need. with the percentage of out of stock product climbing, president biden is vowing to step in, meeting today with industry leaders and announcing a series of measures to increase supplies. the white house vowing to cut the red tape. saying the use of the defense production act to increase formula availability is on the table. a tool most recently used to speed up delivery of covid related health supplies tonight, the shortage being felt across the country, but the crisis has become especially urgent for certain vulnerable groups of children jo ling kent has late details. reporter: tonight, the biden white house under growing pressure to act, with millions of families unable to get infa
Is being invisible to your enemy. abduljalil abdurasulov, bbc news, kyiv. a husband and wife cyber crime team have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5 billion of bitcoin, stolen in a hack more than seven years ago. heather morgan and ilya lichtenstein were arrested last year. whilst attempting to evade police, morgan gained notoriety as the amateur rapper calling herself razzlekhan and the crocodile of wall street . 0ur cyber correspondentjoe tidy has the details. # razzlekhan, the versace bedouin. # come realfar but don t know where i m heading. most criminals like to keep a low profile. not heather morgan, aka razzlekhan. what, what?! because i m turkish martha stewart, you know? not really, but a little bit. when she wasn t laundering a stash of billions in stolen bitcoin, morgan was on a mission to become famous for rapping. she posted dozens of
So, that never actually created the sort of break in provenance that was intended to happen when you are trying to launder that amount of money. the case is the latest in a string of high profile successes for police around the world, who ve become adept at following trails left by criminals using bitcoin. yo, i m in my art studio. i m in the razzle universe. and ijust painted this, baby. it says gilfy . police say morgan and lichtenstein were planning to flee the us to russia lichtenstein s country of birth. if successful, they would have likely lived a billionaire lifestyle, safe from arrest by the us. instead, they now face prison. joe tidy, bbc news. coming up in a few minutes, aaron will have your business news. plenty more on a website, will have your business news. plenty