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🗓️ 20 July 2018
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.0 | The big hurricanes last summer, Harvey, Irma, and Maria |
0:42.6 | knocked out Internet service for many residents. |
0:45.5 | But another threat to the Internet is just plain old sea level rise. |
0:49.4 | Oh, yeah. |
0:50.0 | I mean, some is already happening. |
0:51.7 | Carol Barford, biogeochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
0:55.3 | There's a lot of data out there that shows that sea level on the coast is rising. |
1:00.5 | And that, she says, means big problems for internet connectivity in major coastal cities like |
1:05.5 | New York, Seattle, and Miami. |
1:08.1 | Barford and her colleagues forecast that danger using a map of global internet networks, |
1:12.7 | along with sea level rise data from NOAA. So there are two maps. Where's the internet stuff, |
1:17.4 | and where's the flooding? And they were superimposed and where they coincides their problems. |
1:23.9 | Using NOAA's extreme sea level rise estimate, recommended for forecasts involving long-term |
1:28.6 | infrastructure like this, the researchers say that 15 years from now, 4,100 miles of fiber-optic |
1:34.6 | cable could be underwater, and 1,100 Internet hubs could be surrounded by water. And remember, |
1:40.8 | our land-based infrastructure isn't waterproof, like trans-oceanic cables are. |
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