Discover. Subscribe to the documentary on. The. Market losses continue as fears balanced over the coronavirus wall street suffers a 6 day of sell offs with more businesses curbing their operations and lowering earnings forecast will bring you up to speed. Also on the show china is trying to get business back up and running with krone case members still rising it has a ways to go. And the u. K. Puts on its poker face for next weeks trade negotiations with the e. U. Brussels call it a bluff. This is your. Business report im Stephen Beard is in berlin thanks for joining us u. S. Markets fell for the 6th straight day on thursday as Major Companies continue to curve their operations and slash earnings projections as a result of the spreading coronavirus best p. 500. 00 tech heavy nasdaq index is each lost more than 4 Percent Crude Oil prices continued slide falling more than 2 percent to 52. 00 a barrel analysts at Goldman Sachs have even projected the u. S. Businesses could see no Earnings
No longer as easy as turning on a tap for more and more people water our most Precious Resource welcome to made. Theres a reason earth is known as the blue planet the majority of the globe is covered by water of course around 97 percent of it is so order i mean it to a hospice said is freshwater but much of that is locked away in ice soil and the atmosphere that he bore of it is highly polluted or too deep underground to be extracted at an affordable cost just how tough a percent of all water is readily accessible from lakes rivers and aquifers water scarcity its one of the most serious risks we face and the problem is growing. New deserts are emerging forests are drying up and were still wasting water. The regions marked here in dark red are places where waters extremely scarce and sources are drying up pale red and orange indicate areas where water scarcity is only slightly less critical. Delhi in india the southern part of the city. Water tankers supply poor neighborhoods but only c
A complex and dynamic landscape with 3000 meter High Mountains of frozen water juice of frozen methane and possibly even volcanoes spewing ice and it has an atmosphere and its still not a planet even though it all gets the sun just like the remaining 8 planets know because the new definition of a planet includes a criterion that pluto does not fulfill. The i use as a planet has to quote clear the neighborhood around its orbit that means it sweeps up other material in the vicinity to become the dominant object in its orbital saw on. The earth has done that as have the other 7 planets in our solar system but pluto failed to make the grade. Way out there in the region of its orbit there are many other minor planets known. The trance neptunian objects some of them quite similar to pluto like the even more massive heiress it was discovered in 2005 and ultimately led to plutos downfall. Clue showdowns to feel the other 2 criteria for planets. That is all but star and has enough mass to take
Decades on the topic of north Korea Remains a touchy subject. The world has passed judgment the country is beyond repair. Our preconceived ideas about the democratic peoples republic of north korea remain firmly in place the in a radical orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. A red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose portly appearance is topped with a singular haircut. And then theres the countrys Nuclear Arsenal a threat that makes the selfproclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. When it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the countrys people find themselves in the hyperbole seems rather inappropriate. Were often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember its probably fake. Someone
And put. Our faraway solar system neighbor was a planet and then it wasnt what happened. But 1st lets take a look at our planets sun wind and water are almost inexhaustible sources of energy here on earth and we have the technology to tap into them were moving away from fossil fuels to Renewable Energies that much is clear but whats unclear is how to reliably store that energy. Its a problem that urgently needs solving as more and more of our electricity in the future will come from renewable sources. A swiss engineer has come up with an interesting concept. Petrecki has a vision he wants to build a gravity assisted battery to compensate for the fluctuating nature of solar and wind energy if it works itll be able to store millions of times more energy than a conventional household battery. Vision is a system for storing large amounts of energy so we can increase the sheriff energy is in the grid. Or right now its about 30 to 35 percent thats the limit because the sun doesnt shine const