One peace at a time: Gaza, Israel and Iran
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Peace talks in Doha have a chance at progress even in Hamas’s absence. The outcome could determine the scope of Iran’s promised retaliations against Israel. New research suggests Mars may have an ocean’s worth of water deep in its crust (10:30). And Colombia’s bid to sate the global hunger for more sources of vanilla (18:14).
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| 1:34.6 | The story of water on Mars is complicated. First, astronomers thought water was all over the place, |
| 1:41.7 | then that it was utterly dry, then the discovery of polar ice caps |
| 1:45.4 | and frozen soil, and this week hints of a possible ocean's worth deep in the planet's crust. |
| 1:53.3 | And most of the world's vanilla comes from Madagascar, but as demand for the flavor and scent |
| 1:59.6 | has skyrocketed, new sources are needed. |
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