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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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South America is seeing a record number of wildfires, and a smoky haze hung in the air in cities like São Paulo this week. The World's Carolyn Beeler reports from western Brazil, where climate change is fueling unprecedented flames in the Pantanal wetlands. Plus, video has emerged of North Korea's Kim Jong-un touring a uranium enrichment facility. Analysts say these images will help experts estimate with more accuracy how much nuclear capability North Korea has achieved. And a new book from Atlas Obscura compiles delightful stories of the living creatures whose behavior ranks right up there with the wonders of the world.
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0:00.0 | Pictures have emerged of Kim Jong-un inside a uranium enrichment plant. |
0:10.4 | There's a lot of capability there. |
0:12.4 | I'm Carol Hills. |
0:14.0 | What to make of those pictures as North Korea |
0:16.0 | aims to develop nuclear weapons? |
0:18.0 | And all over the globe, wildlife is a source of wonder. |
0:22.0 | Like, did you ever think of crickets chirping this way? |
0:24.8 | What they do is sort of the equivalent of like a teenager plug in the electric guitar. |
0:28.8 | Awesome nature stories, but first, wildfliers are raging in Brazil and our own Carolyn Beeler is there, |
0:35.8 | investigating how climate change is fanning the flames. |
0:38.9 | It's hot on my face. |
0:41.4 | The wind is kicking it up right now. |
0:45.2 | All right, it's getting a little closer. |
0:47.2 | Those stories and more, all ahead today on the world. I'm Carol Hills. |
0:57.0 | Thanks for being with us today. South America is overwhelmed by wildfires right now, |
1:05.2 | and in Brazil, the worst drought the country has ever seen |
1:08.2 | is fueling blazes nationwide. |
1:10.5 | Major rivers in the Amazon Basin |
1:12.4 | are at historic lows and cities like |
1:14.4 | Sao Paulo have been shrouded in smoke. In the western part of Brazil a wetland |
1:19.0 | ecosystem roughly the size of England is setting its own fire records. It's called the Pantanal. the |
1:25.0 | the world's car well-being of England is setting its own fire records. |
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