hopefully, in about ten or15 yea rs we earth. hopefully, in about ten or15 years we will get those rocks back from mars and more missions will be sent to bring them back and we will be able to study those rocks from mars and laboratories on earth. all three of these ground—breaking missions are now imposing on their destination and will transform our understanding of mars when they arrive. it brings to a close a year that has brought science to the world's attention, and it is clear it will stay centrestage in the months to come. hello there. it was a drab start on monday, wasn't it? with the spell of wet weather gradually pushing its way steadily north and east. it will move out of northern ireland this afternoon and then move its way into scotland where it will linger for much of the day. behind it we have a real cluster of showers sandwiched into the south, but the real contrast with the story today is the mild air that is pushing up across the south in comparison to the colder air that is now starting to nudge in to the far

it's very different from the earth much bigger telescopes. those ground based telescopes that we've spotted these other planets out there means like how many are. in yours. troy. and so these are not the real world that we photographed and studied with around the sun or and. so private space flight is becoming very popular in 2022 nasa is sending you a broader virgin galactic to run experiments space x. through dragon has to sarah carried nasa astronauts to iowa says there's also just blue origin as he did a good thing that space missions are becoming and being outsourced to private companies. well i think so because. the national space agency. why the russian space agency and nasa here in the united states jack engineered center and even the european space agency. can only do so many things with the budgets they have and just like at sea there are many commercial activities in here that many commercial activities mean more than just what the government agencies to the explosion what applications of commercial space and not just face to isn't

first of all, when you are near earth were i was in lower orbit, earth is like this giant magnetic you can't take your eyes off it thing, so beautiful. he can't describe it. i tried, i did a geography book i've done this book please sit with your own eyes you don't have that emotional comedy planet is over there and i am here. there something profound about that. i didn't see ourselves as insignificant. ice ourselves really as we have this planted. there's no plan b. if you look at it plan b at that sea of black that's light years away were never going to be able to get to anytime soon, to say the least. so there is plan a, and there is no plan b anywhere else. to got to take care of plan a. that is the perspective i came away with. >> it feels like if we could get more people to have that experience, it would wipe away a lot of the problems that we have here on earth to just see the planet as just one, as you say plan a. at the place we live on togethe together. samantha, my crewmate samantha put it for a while. she set over all on spaceship earth we should act like we are crewmates a

on the surface of the earth. but you know the ice on pluto water ice and the other ice on pluto are extremely cold temperatures as pluto is 30 times farther away from the sun the sun way to 7 a 1000 times weaker than the temperatures are almost absolute 0. the biologists will tell you that they don't know how to make biology that can operate at those temperatures but as i was saying a moment ago deep inside plato's interior meet the crust as the temperatures get warmer and warmer as you go down towards greater greater depths that water ice will flies in both combs room temperature or at least liquid. water and it's a global ocean in there it's a shallow if you will all around the planet from what we can tell the need across water and that. got our attention from an astrological standpoint then later one of the scientists on our team dr dale croce discovered through compositional spectroscopy basically chemical fingerprinting done by new horizons that there are places on the surface of pluto where water appears to

well it depends on where you go because just like the earth pluto is a very diverse planet with mountain ranges canyons and great sugar and other kinds of geology so depending upon where you go you would see different strains but one thing you would see everywhere is something that new horizons discovered which is that the atmosphere just blue in color it would look like a version of our sky actually has dozens of these layers stacked up all the way to orbital altitudes and not something unlike anything we had seen anywhere else in the soaps. since the new horizons fly by mission has discovered water ice some pluto and its moon charon can this point out at the possibility of some sort of some form of life in a icy corner of our solar system. well they're there water is an important ingredient for all biology. on the surface of the earth but you know the ice on pluto water ice and the other ice on pluto are extremely cold temperatures this pluto is 30 times farther away from the sun the sun way to 7000 times weaker when the temperatures are almost absolute 0. the biologists will tell you

the next step is to bring them back to earth. and a discovery on the moon. an abundant supply of water was found, boosting hopes it could one day sustain a lunar base. china also embarked on its latest mission to the moon. a robotic lander gathered up rocks. it then docked with an orbiting spacecraft to return these precious samples to earth. they're the first collected in more than a0 years. china left behind its flag. there's no doubting now that it's a major new power in space. this was the year that would challenge science like never before. from the first reports of a new virus in china, prompting a race against time to understand this new deadly enemy, scientists sequenced dna, revealing the genetic make—up of the virus, and developed tests that could show if someone was infected or not. and they discovered the environments where the virus was most likely to spread — our knowledge of covid was growing fast. we need to concentrate on limiting these large cluster super—spreading events which we know are linked to indoor poorly ventilated environmen

when your near earth, where i was, low earth orbit, this joint magnetic you can't take your eyes off of it thing that is so beautiful. you can't describe it. i did a photography book, if you see with your own eyes, you don't have that emotional -- the planet is over there and i am here. there's something profound about that. i didn't see ourselves as insignificant. i thought ourselves as we have this planet, there is no plan b. if you look at plan b it is a sea of black that are light years away that we will never be able to get to. anytime soon. to say the least. there is plan and there is no plan b, we have to take care of plan a. that is the perspective i came home with. >> host: it seems if we could get more people to have that experience it would wipe away a lot of the problems we have here on earth, to see the planet as just plan a, the place we have to live on together. >> guest: my crewmate samantha in a beautiful mind said we are all on spaceship earth and should act like crewmate and not passengers. that is a great perspective to have. the space tourism industry, virgin gal

this is not expected if venus was revolving around the earth. so by showing this, galileo gave a strong argument, perhaps the strongest against that model. i want now to move to something else, which is particularly important since we are talking in the context of a bookstore and so on. there is this offer and chemist, cp snow who in the 1950s noticed the following. he noticed in england that starting from about the 30s, people in the literary circles, started to refer to themselves as the intellectuals. thereby excluding scientists from that definition. and furthermore they were complaining about scientists not knowing much about the humanities at all. at the same time, cp snow noted those same intellectuals new almost nothing about the sciences. and that did not seem to bother them. so he wrote this book, he gave a talk and wrote the book which is called pollsters where he basically described a schism that he thought had developed between the humanities and the scientists. now if you look at galileo, galileo would not have even understood what

capsule is making its way back to earth even as we speak what more can you tell us about the samples it's carrying. i got to say 1st of all what's amazing is it's hurtling towards earth that about 30000 kilometers per year every 2 hours this is an incredible feat where the finger back asteroids real you go asteroids you know they say they live in the so-called asteroid belt which is between mars and jupiter so this soon as i say mars i think a lot of people start thinking about human space travel going to live on mars in that sort of thing so essentially what we're trying to do is find out what the rocks and other bodies the planets around that area the moves around that area what and made all asteroids are made of rocks and metals so we think immediately of resources new which is very important but also by investigating whether it's an asteroid missed sense or comments as it was with t.v. the european mission on rosetta is we are discovering about the origins of life where this is because these are pristine bodies you know they're very untouched by any kinds of life i think human li

base in australia and around an hour scientists hope the 4000000000 year old samples it delivers to earth can help shed light on the origins of life. tense anticipation space fans in tokyo followed the live streamed progress of japan's high of 2 spacecraft as it made its way home after 6 years and 6000000000 kilometers of space travel now back in earth's orbit it successfully dropped off a capsule containing rare asteroid samples. the capsule will turn into a fireball during entry into earth's atmosphere and is expected to land somewhere in the australian outback but the exact location is difficult to predict. we know very accurately where the higher bruce said to is traveling but we cannot control the winds on earth so we anticipate the capsule will fall somewhere in this large red oval area on the diagram. japanese and australian space agency officials are waiting on the ground ready for the search and retrieval mission. scientists believe the asteroid fragments collected on the distant asteroid where you grew container cannick matter that hasn't changed since the solar system was forme

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first of all when you are near earth where i was in low earth orbit, it's this giant magnetic you can't take your eyes off it. you can't describe it. until you see it with your own eyes you don't have that emotional like the planet is over there and i'm over here there's something profound about that. but i didn't see ourselves as insignificant. i saw there's no plan b if you look at it it's just a sea of blackness that we are never going to be able to get to any timanytime soon to say the leaso that was kind of the perspective that i came away with. it feels like if we could get more people to have that experience it would wipe away a lot of the problems that we have here on earth to just see the planet as this one plan a. >> my crewmate put it's really well she said we are all on spaceship earth and we should act like we are crewmates and not just passengers and i think that is a great perspective to have. the space tourism industry is going to start launching a lot of people on these flights in the next year or so so a lot more people will get to. it won't be most but thousands inste

entering the earth's atmosphere. that fireball on your screen moving from right to left is a closely watched space capsule whose contents could help explain the creation of our solar system. applause there wasjoy and relief at the japanese aerospace exploration agency's mission control as the soil sample sent from the japanese space craft hayabusa 2 parachuted down safely in the australian desert. scientists are expecting about 0.1 of a gram will be returned for examination at their laboratory near tokyo from the asteroid rugu which lies some 300 million kilometres away. they will measure the rock's age, what it is made of and how it is formed, potentially offering vital clues as to how the sun and planets came to be. this one is special because this one is going to an asteroid that we think is really rich in organic material and water so in the very earliest history of the earth we think it may have been pelted with asteroids like that and that is what gave us the water and the carbon to form our oceans and to enabl

but coming back to the earth from the moon is so different than coming back from earth orbit, that the officers, the people in the control center were not experienced at using the program. so we were asked, the people who develop the program, to sit in the control center to help on that. so i was privileged to be over therefore apollo eight. that was my first, and to me the most exciting mission, because it was new. ten, 11, 12, and yes, 13. and my work was used in every one of the apollo missions. so it was a very interesting time, and a very exciting time. and i am so happy to see all of these young women in the room. because people think that we are inspirations. i am inspired by you. and i hope that you will not be hidden figures. i hope you will be out and about, and screaming your names to encourage other women to go into this exciting area. >> thank you, poppy. [applause] dr. carolyn leach huntoon worked at the johnson space center at leading the study of how the human body adapts to spaceflight. in 1994 she became the first woman to serve as director of johnson space center. ca

a japanese space capsule carrying rare asteroid material has touched down back on earth after a 6 year journey covering almost 6000000000 kilometers. to . the right for the japanese space agency staff applauded as the capsule detached from the probe 2 and began its final approach to earth the craft landed at a remote base in australia the probe collected a rock and soul samples billions of years old from the distant asteroid 3 you go scientists hope the material will provide clues about the origins of the universe and of life itself. let's bring in phil figure agony from signs desk for more on this so feet are welcome the capsule has landed what do we know about its return journey and the samples it's carrying. well from all reports so far the return journey was very smooth it's been described as an historic events and indeed it is quite historic to have be samples returned to earth it's not the 1st time it's happened but it is one of these sort of out of a growing speed in race to bring samples back from say the moon or an asteroid or other planets you know hopefully at some point ver

. >> odyssey and aquarius moved away from earth toward the moon. >> we had a hardware restart. >> he used to have a problem. >> negative flight. >> the crew reported it. >> we may have had an instrumentation problem. >> we had a pretty large bang, associated with the warning there. >> the sensation i had, that i felt a vibration accompanying the bank. not a large vibration or shutter. >> we're looking at instrumentation, we have real problems are wet? >> we are looking at pressure on fuel cell one. with 13 p.s. i under fuel cell pressure. we royal shut down the reaction bell. , >> i asked for a confirmation when you shut these things down you need. that >> it looks to me that we are vetting something. we are getting something out into space. >> royal let's look at the kind of things we do vetting,. >> how about you e-commerce, do you see anything on the instrumentation that you have got. >> that's flying. fine >> okay let's get it. >> here's a bolton from abc news, the apollo's 13 spacecraft has had a serious power supply malfunction, that could cause the lunar landing mission to be

they entered -- reentered the earth's atmosphere, the debris field cleared. they were able to look out their windows to affirm they had adjusted their navigation systems correctly. they used their knowledge gained from morehead training to ensure that they were on the right path and they made it home safely. >> odyssey houston, we show you on the main. it really looks great. >> at morehead we like to say we trained astronauts and we are training future astronauts so we want every visitor here to see that the sky truly is not -- the sky's not even the limit. that there is an entire huge universe out there that the pioneers of tomorrow are looking at, the challenges of deep space and also the challenges here on earth. the things we're learning here today, we have no idea how it will advance us. so what we want is for the people, especially the children that walk through the doors of morehead, to know that whatever contribution that they can make is an important contribution. we have no idea where it will take us and how it will impact us. >>> you're watching cs

-- from the earth. the moon thing, on our way to the moon, we had heat problems because of the constant sunlight upon us. so we had to rotate our spacecraft to keep heat evenly distributed so this did not boil and this froze. as a consequence, we did not get to see the moon until we were practically at the end of our trip to it. when we rolled out and looked at it, it was an awesome sphere. bulbous. it looked like it was trying to climb into the cockpit with us. the sun was behind it so it was illuminated by a rim of gold, which made the strangest appearances of the craters and crater pits contrast between lighter than light and darker than dark. as magnificent as that was and as impressive, and as much as i will remember that, that was nothing compared to this other window. and out there, there is a little pea, about the size of your thumbnail at arms length, blue, white, very shiny. you get the blue of the ocean, the white of the water. a streak of continents. a beautiful gorgeous tiny thing nestled i

our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights life within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. . this is the w. news and these are our top stories germany will enter a tougher coronavirus lockdown starting on wednesday with schools and non-essential stores is set to close this comes amid a surge in deaths and recent weeks have i got an eyeful appeal to germans to limit their social contacts in the run up to christmas. the united states has begun distributing millions of doses of coups in 1000 facts seen inoculation of health care workers.

capsule is making its way back to earth even as we speak what more can you tell us about the samples it's carrying. i got to say 1st of all what's amazing is it's hurtling towards earth that about 30000 kilometers per year every 2 hours this is an incredible feat where the thing about asteroids really you go asteroids you know they stay living in the so-called asteroid belt which is between mars and jupiter so this soon as i say mars i think a lot of people start thinking about human space travel going to live on mars in that sort of thing so essentially what we're trying to do is find out what the rocks and other bodies the planets around that area the moves around that area what and made of asteroids are made of rocks and metals so we think immediately of resources which is very important but also by investigating whether it's an asteroid missed sense or comments as it was with t.v. the european mission on rosetta is we are discovering about the origins of life where this is because these are pristine bodies you know the very untouched by any kinds of life as a human life that is w

today's salt from ancient oceans is also found far from the sea the movement of the earth's tectonic plates pushed the salt either to high at elevations. deep into the ground. so all. our salt originally hails from the seas and oceans one of the oldest ways of harvesting this vital material is by allowing sea water to evaporate in basins salt crystals are left behind. but much of the salt formed millions of years ago now slumbers would meet the earth's surface we visit our walk salt mine in western germany to see how it is extracted. from that we'll need about 100 seconds to get to the bottom we're moving at 10 meters per 2nd. just move of the time on heads the salt production here 900 meters below ground today they want to extract 8000 tons of salt from the mine and that calls for some unusual measures. if we're going to blast chamber $9101.00 of our biggest a bit specials let's see how it goes. checking in and out is especially important when blast work is being carried out underground. first the work has to be planned this is chamber 910 blasting here requires an entire team. but

. >> reporter: for japan a big issue is rare earth. china is a major producer of these materials, which are essential in high-tech manufacturing. but marukawa says the new law does not pose a threat t japan's industry. >> i don't think that this law is applicable to rare earth. because air earth itself is not directly related to weapons or dual-use technology. and also china failed to control its rare earth exports before by using the environmental protection as a pretext. and it was just as inconsistent with wto rules. >> still, marukawa warns frt possibility of beijing using the law as a weapon during the trade war. >> there are several international arrangements regarding the exports of dual-use technology in nuclear-related items and weapons. so don't think that this law will be inconsistent with the current global trade order. however, it is possible that china will tryo misuse it if others a misusing and regulating exports to china as the united stes i currently doing against china. >>> iran's state-run television has reported th

the earth was pretty wild back then unbolting planet bombarded by meteorites the salt that we now use to season our food was also formed back then. 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago our planet was a red hot mass as it cooled volcanoes hold matter from its in a most court to the surface liquid rock friction sodium gushed from fishes in the earth's crust and the gas clouds from the volcanic crater has contained not only water vapor but chlorine. it remained in the atmosphere until the air cooled enough for the 1st rays. the chlorine was washed down with the rain into the rivers as the water flowed from there into the sea it passed over volcanic rock containing sodium. the water had leached out the sodium meaning the primordial ocean now contained but sodium and chlorine. as the sea a vacuum. aged in many areas over the course of millions of years it left behind sodium chloride otherwise known as cells. and the process continues to this day the sun evaporates the water and sea salt is left behind and on very hot sunny days with steady winds particularly fine crystals form the coveted. to

thermal imaging shows the capsule with its precious cargo touching down to earth. helicopters then spot the lunar probe in the icy wasteland support staff quickly move in to recover the spacecraft china hopes the contents will help scientists discover new information about the geology and history of earth's satellite. shankar 5 was one of the most complicated and challenging missions in china's aerospace history. when the rocket was launched on november 23rd it was a source of national pride. the probe was made up of 4 modules one was the lander which has dug for rocks and soil the materials were then transferred into a return capsule for the journey back to earth it's the 1st time in 4 decades that material has been brought back from the moon beijing now has its sights set on building a moon base cementing its role as a superpower in the news face race. sports news now bundesliga champions byron unic find themselves in the unusual position of 2nd place on wednesday night they face tough opponents and visitors vosburgh who are yet to lose a game in the league this

books on the has ak in the earth's atmosphere after a truly incredible journey of 6 years and more than 5000000000 kilometers scientists jeff and the space agency jubilant as the capsule containing the precious asteroid samples detached from the main spacecraft becoming a fine goal in this simulation of its final approach to earth. a short while later a colleague sped towards the remote landing site deep in the australian outback. the space probe booster 2 was launched back in 2014 the last stop on its current mission the asteroid real grew some 300000 kilometers from earth the probe collected both surface dust and the 1st samples from below the surface material believed to have remained unchanged since the very formation of the universe the scientists hope it could yield some of the secrets of life itself the samples are very interesting from this particular asteroid we never had samples back from this kind of an asteroid before directly it's called a c. type asteroid which means it's mostly made of carbon there are other kinds which give us clues about the way the solar system was put

>> you are getting a preview of what earth one and earth two may look like next year, earth two will be all rainbows and butterflies with what democratic leaders do versus what americans are going to be experiencing. what we are talking about earlier with democratic officials not living by the same rules and having the police try to go after folks for not wearing their masks. at the same time they are cutting budgets and not allowing police to go out and protect citizens. so we welcome this conversation. do you want police out giving you a ticket for not wearing a mask or do you want them policing your neighborhoods to keep you safe? >> harris: nomiki, gushing over joe biden is the topic, going after trump bashing for four years. >> i see a lot of democrats challenging joe biden and his appointments right now so talk about earth one and earth two. in the democratic party we are having a vibrant debate over whe should be putting in his administration. i ask you guys, are you better off than you were four years ago, every working-class person in america? my guess is no you are not. inc

it'll spend three days scooping up samples to send back to earth. its the first mission to take samples from the moon in over 40 years. china's had two successful landings, but this will be the first to come back with moon rocks. i'm joined now by dr tanya harrison, a planetary scientist who has worked with nasa on their mars research missions. i know you have been working with nasa on these missions, and have been waiting to come in air. what makes these missions important? they have landed ina missions important? they have landed in a part of the moon when they will collect a sample and bring that sample back to the earth, and we have done that with previous soviet and us missions, but never in the type of terrain that this one has landed in, so the rocks they are collecting with the chang'e five mission are only about a billion years old, which is quite young, whereas the rocks we have collected with other missions and with the human apollo missions, those are more like 3— 4 billion years old. why has it been something like 44 years since this

earth for the outreach for fear of the enemy our interview earlier. it's. obvious. child welfare agencies across america are tasked with protecting endangered children and removing them from homes where their safety is at risk but that mission and well meaning calls walked into the criminalization of poverty and discrimination against black families. here i dig deeper as the cries of advocates from black families matter to reunify black kids and their parents and raise awareness of a devastating system take a listen. black families matter might not take over twitter like the black lives matter hash tag the crowd for black families matter may not be as large but their voices and their fight is just as important the administration for children's services a.c.s. is filled with bureaucracy red tape case workers and scores of people ready to remove primarily black children from their homes an allegation that appearing isn't caring for their children properly is typically the trigger in a recent mother jones investigative report joyce mcmillan a black mom in new york chro

but much of the salt formed millions of years ago now slumbers would meet the earth's surface we visit our walk salt mine in western germany to see how it is extracted. from that to feel need about 100 seconds to get to the bottom we're moving at 10 meters per 2nd. move of left them on heads the salt production here 900 meters below ground today they want to extract 8000 tons of salt from the mine and that calls for some unusual measures. if we are going to blast chamber $9101.00 of our biggest a bit specials let's see how it goes. checking in and out is especially important when blast work is being carried out underground. first the work has to be planned this is chamber 910 blasting here requires an entire team. but they'll also need to work at 2 other locations in the mine to reach the day started of 8000 times. the mine is a vast labyrinth of tunnels and chambers 900 meters underground each day it expands a little further. before blasting can proceed in chamber 910 more work is needed elsewhere where the team won't meet its target. let a man doesn't need a g.p.s. to navigate down h

the earth was pretty wild back then a multitude planet bombarded by meteorites the salt that we now use to season our food was also formed back then. 4 and a half 1000000000 years ago our planet was a red hot mass as it cooled volcanoes hold matter from its in a most court to the surface liquid rock richen sodium gushed from fishes in the earth's crust and the gas clouds from the volcanic crater is contained to not only water vapor but chlorine. it remained in the atmosphere until the air cooled enough for the 1st rains. the chlorine was washed down with the rain into the rivers as the water flowed from there into the sea it passed over volcanic rock containing sodium. the water leached out the sodium meaning the primordial ocean now contained but sodium and chlorine. as the sea evaporated in many areas over the course of millions of years it left behind sodium chloride otherwise known as cells. and the process continues to this day the sun evaporates the water and sea salt is left behind and on very hot sunny days with steady winds were to kill a fine crystals form the coveted just sai

he also of course wired the earth team on the national security council that obama had created in the aftermath of the. ebola deadly ebola happy demick in. west africa. to deal with a pandemic which was universally agree. with any needs ret the united states some other countries i mean the warnings about this since. the beginning of the millennium have been constant the planning. has been kind of their reports have been guarded since it but it's suddenly united states it's in your country and . most countries of western europe are always planning came to not it was largely. ignored and now in my country the. president tried has who he says are all on which is a medical spokesman name scott apple as he's a parks news commentator who exactly parrots the line that the tribe in ministration expresses that mass probably useless schoolchildren don't transmit the earth and to make the testing should be limited to only people in critically endangered groups trump obvious he says things that he says off of the united states doing better and he certainly is doing better than the united kingdom

our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights life within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. o e m a. it is get him out of the open to being easy like i say how can you say this with 100 percent of more than 2 years ago ethiopian prime minister abi ahmed wrote to power on a wave of hope for peace and democracy in the longer oppressive country but now he has waged a military offensive on forces in the northern tier. sparking a humanitarian crisis my guest this week from addis ababa is the logic of bra minister for democratization where is the peaceful future as prime.

i feel more connected to this place than anywhere else on earth. it's an environment that i grew up in, this oak hazel, a bit of ash, a bit of yew woodland. and i'm comfortable here with all the colours, the sounds, the smells. it's a wonderful place to be able to spend my time. and i've spent more of it here this spring than ever before. i was going to say, the coronavirus pandemic has affected us all. how has it actually affected your life? my mother always used to say, "you've got to find some good in some bad." and we've had terrible bad this spring and summer. but i've found good here because i've come to this place on a twice daily basis at least, and i've reconnected with nature in a way that i haven't done since my teens. because i had the capability to do that consecutively. so i've walked down this avenue of trees that we are strolling down now every day, and i've looked at all those little nuances, you know, changes in flower composition, changes in the length of the grass, changes in the sound made by different species of buzzing insect

our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights within the arctic circle starts december 21st w. this is d w news and these are out top stories u.s. regulators have approved the use of the bio on take 5 the covert 19 fact same preparations for mass distribution are already underway the trumpet ministration had reportedly told the head of the food and drug of mr.

[dialogue in spanish] [explosion] [camera focus adjusting] [camera shutter clicking] announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by a grant from anne ray foundation, a margaret a. cargill philanthropy; the orange county community foundation; and the farvue foundation. [camera focus adjusting] man: we're in madre de dios, and this is an area that until recently has been pristine forests and a small town really close to the triple border between peru, bolivia, and brazil. starting in the early 2000s, there was a plan to build a major highway moving products from brazil over the andes to the ports in the pacific for exports to places like china. that changed the face of madre de dios. it connected the city of puerto maldonado with the city of cusco in the andes. that voyage used to take about two weeks in the rainy season. now it takes about 6 hours. the price of gold started to rise, and in 2008, it skyrocketed. and that created an unprecedented gold boom for tens of thousands of miners, who came from mainly the andes into dre de dios and started to take the forest apart. some of t

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