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right today's show it's a good one so
are you ready let's go we start in
Europe where're NATO allies are facing a
new threat in Rising tensions with
Russia after a series of suspected
attacks on undersea cables last month on
Christmas morning estonians woke up with
their power supply cut by onethird when
the EST link 2 undersea power cable
linking Estonia to Finland failed
Finnish officials say a Cook Islands
flagged tanker carrying oil from Russia
to Turkey apparently dragged its anchor
over the cable damaging it there are
dozens of vulnerable and unprotected
internet and power cables lying on the
seabed of the Baltic Sea and more than
95% of data worldwide moves through more
than 1 million kilometers of those
cables spanning More Than 880,000 Miles
repairs for this kind of damage are
costly and can take months to fix
raising fears that a concerted attack
could paralized communication networks
jeopardized Hospital surgeries police
responses and more thankfully the
incident has had just a modum of effect
on Estonia because of Reserve energy
supplies but it sounded the alarm for
NATO officials already tracking
incidents of suspected cable cutting in
a matter of weeks the alliance mobilized
a group of warships to specifically
prevent these suspected attacks stepping
up patrols on the Baltic Sea and
increasing coordination with border
guards from the Nations affected Russia
denies having any role in the in ents
NATO officials note that the ships
involved originate in or are traveling
to a Russian Port CNN's Nick Robertson
shows us how NATO's Baltic Sentry
mission is using high-tech tools to
protect these undersea
cables Sunrise around 100 miles from
Russia on the near freezing Baltic
Sea tension mounts
this is NATO War 03 over NATO is
retooling for a new
war a hybrid
War Ultra Modern sophisticated Tech is
being prepped for underwater action
specialized subsea drones designed to
dive deep below the surface this is the
sharp end of the mission protecting our
Internet it's not up there in the sky
it's under the
sea NATO's Mission Baltic Sentry is a
rapid response to an escalating new
threat multiple cables cut in recent
months and this is what the undersea
internet cables look like this size
they're tiny they're vulnerable they're
easily cut in these Waters between
Estonia and Finland and Beyond an unseen
enemy is believed to have been targeting
internet and power cables the subseed
drones and the battleships getting eyes
on the threat a lot of the ships that we
found are acting strangely originate in
a Russian port or are going to a Russian
Port this ship anchor suspected of being
dragged on the seabed intentionally
damaging cables Christmas Day how far
are these anchors been dragged I
understand a couple of hundred miles is
that normal no that's not how does that
happen can a captain not notice very
good question and my guess is no a
captain does know that and that's
probably intentional repairs can be
complicated costly and take months worst
case an entire nation can be cut off
from the internet Under the Sea here
there are multiple cables linking
Estonia with Finland in the Baltic Sea
dozens more the numbers keep growing
across the globe there are hundreds of
cables according to Nato more than
800,000 miles of cable carrying 10
trillion dollars of international
trade the mission critical enough to
have expensive fighter jets on tap
conditions at sea level though the
biggest challenge as we saw on a
relatively calm
day each NATO War ship bringing its own
specialty this one sonar less than 2
weeks into the mission commanders at Sea
increasingly confident who is
responsible and who is the threat here
uh Russia that's for that's quite
clear Russia denies any role but by this
day's end more NATO Nations committing
forces to Baltic Sentry the flotilla
growing NATO HQ commanders facing tough
choices the proof of the smoking gum um
it's it's very very difficult we have to
balance between uh this moving into
something that can become very ugly and
what I mean by that is
Warfare 10-second trivia a piece of ice
breaking from a glacier becomes an
iceberg during what process calving
having fissuring or disintegration
answer is cing the natural process that
occurs when the movement of Glacier Ice
makes the end of the glacier unstable
breaking off into
icebergs this is the largest iceberg in
the world and it could hit a nearby
Island as of January a23a spans an area
of
3,643 KM that's about four times the
land area of New York City and twice the
size of London most icebergs typically
last just a few years that this Mega BG
broke off almost 40 years ago now a23a
has been heading north spinning around
and getting stuck for a while down in
the southern Atlantic Ocean and right
now experts are worried it could hit the
nearby British overseas territory of
South Georgia but this depends on the
currents if it does hit it could be a
big deal for wildlife the Island's only
permanent inhabitants penguins and seals
could be in danger and fishing and
shipping Industries could be impacted
however it could split up into many more
icebergs which would be harder to track
and impact ships scientists say this
Iceberg probably broke away naturally
but the fossil fuel driven climate
crisis means Antarctica is experiencing
more worrying changes with potentially
devastating consequences for Global sea
level
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rise today we are giv a big old 10 out
of 10 to the scientists who glued tiny
QR codes to the backs of about 30,000
bees all in the name of science for
months researchers work to carefully
attach QR codes smaller than a
fingernail to Young worker bees
averaging about 600 bees every two weeks
across six be colonies biologists did
the painstaking work to unravel the
mysteries of how often and how far the
persistent pollinators travel from their
hives are Jeremy Roth is the bees niece
for showing us how it
works a newly published and buzzworthy
study saw scientists outfit honeybees
with itty bitty QR codes to track their
movements you know those weird little
pixelated symbols that link you to info
and scanned by your phone's camera well
researchers at Penn State University
glued similar tiny codes no bigger than
a pinky nail to the backs of some 30
plus thousand honeybees in various Hive
locations in Pennsylvania and New York
that were outfitted with a digital
scanning system the coded bees were then
scanned as they exited and entered the
hives in an effort to better understand
the travel and foraging habits of the
species published in the journal
Hardware X the results not only saw
surprising evidence of how long the
tagged bees spent outside the hives and
factors that dictated their travel
patterns but the tracking also yielded
unexpected new data suggesting honeybees
may live up to twice as long as
previously thought that flies in the
face of many schools of thought about
these environmentally crucial
Critters all right thank you to everyone
who submitted some Stellar words for
your word Wednesday congrats to Mrs
Baxter's class in levit toown PA at
pensbury High School West modum a noun
meaning a small portion or a limited
quantity go Birds thanks for boosting
our vocab today our special shout out
today goes to Campbell County Middle
School in Alexandria Kentucky we see you
camels and happy hump day to you did you
know camels can run as fast as race
horses I was today years old when I
learned that have an awesome day
everyone I'll see you right back here on
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