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Thanks for making space for CNN 10
that's a pun in our first story because
it's about space why do we do puns
because fridays are awesome. I'm Carl Azuz
for CNN 10
up up and away we go this week china
announced it had teamed up with russia
to build a new space station
their next steps will be to come up with
a design a way to build it a way to
operate itand then to present those plans to the
rest of the world they're calling the
facility the international lunar
scientific research station
and russia says it'll be open to all
interested countries and international
partners
the soviet union from which russia
emerged in the early 1990s
had a space race with the united states
in 1957 the soviet union became the
first country to launch a satellite into
orbit
it was the first to launch animals and
eventually a human into orbit
the united states had left ahead by 1969
when it landed men on the moon
and russia fell further behind in the
space race following the collapse of the
soviet union's communist government
in more recent years russia was a
founding partner of the international
space station
but china has not been allowed to
participate in that project the u.s
outlawed that out of security concerns
that's part of the reason why it's
significant that russia partnered with
china on the new space station
experts say it could signal a new era of
competition as opposed to cooperation
when it comes to international space
projects
as two long-time space powers russia and
the united states start to
distance themselves from one another
russia and china
are teaming up with plans to build a new
research facility
that could orbit the moon be on the
surface of the moon
or even a combination of both inviting
cooperation from around the world
and signaling that the russia u.s space
alliance
may be on the way out russia did not
sign the artemis support for lunar
exploration led by nasa
and roscosmos the russian space agency
also lost its monopoly on manned flights
to the
international space station after spacex
jumped into that game
but now china's national space agency
cnsa
which has a lot of money is looking
to work with russia and their 60 years
of experience it was 60 years ago
this year in fact that russia launched
the first human
into space and this would be china's
biggest space cooperative
operation to date they already have a
probe orbiting mars
last year they brought rock and soil
samples back from the moon it was the
first mission of that kind in more than
40 years
and so china and russia are looking to
compete with
nasa as it continues to make strides
there is of course
the perseverance rover that nasa has
that did a test drive on mars last week
sending back
audio and high definition pictures
looking for evidence of life
there are early plans for the u.s to
send humans to mars
and there is also a plan to send the
first woman
to the moon in 2024. russia looking to
regain some of its space supremacy built
over decades but lost
in the post-soviet years
ten-second trivia which of these deserts
got its name from a word meaning desert
namib desert chihuahuan desert sahara
desert or kalahari desert
in arabic the word sahara means desert
outside of antarctica and the arctic the
sahara is the biggest warm weather
desert on the planet it's about the size
of the united states
and there's debate in the scientific
community about whether the sahara is
growing
some experts say the desert has expanded
over the past 100 years
by as much as 10 percent others say its
area naturally fluctuates depending on
the amount of rainfall at its
borders and that a drought in the late
20th century only made it look like the
sahara had grown
there's also debate over whether the
great green wall
a massive tree planting project across
north africahas been working its progress since 2007
has been slow
and critics say natural weather patterns
and bad farming practices are more to
blame for desertification than the
sahara itself
regardless of what's happening with the
desert though the great green wall
project continues to grow
it received 14 million in funding
earlier this year to continue its
efforts
the sahara desert
remote romantic
it's also a threat
what i love about the desert is the it's
very peaceful
but in the same time it's very scary
because
when desserts enter the houses of people
pushing them
to live because they have no more
livelihoods
in their communities it's scaring me
desertification is a process which
transforms once arable land
into a barren environment it's something
that sarah toomey witnessed firsthand
my grandparents they were growing olives
and under the olive
trees they were growing beautiful
gardens withvegetables and other crops now let's say
25 years after they don't grow anymore
their food so you have to buy food from
the shops
and i think it's very sad
desertification can be reversed toomey's
project acacias for all
has cultivated almost 700 000
deep-rooted trees in the region
improving soil structure and allowing
for other trees and crops to be planted
nearby
it's very easy to plant a tree it's not
easy to grow
a tree and that's why what i learned in
tunisia
from just planting akashia trees into
growing agroecological ecosystems with
communities
creating value chains that sustain
the ecosystem toomey's impact in tunisia
led her to want to do more
she's been invited to join a program of
epic proportions
great green wall is about giving life
back to the desert to the silence
the great green wall is a patchwork of
restored lands across the entire
continent
expected to stretch 8 000 kilometers by
2030
covering 100 million hectares of land
across11 countries the aim is to create a
natural shield against desertification
up to now the great green wall
initiative
had filled up about 18
of the the objective
so yes you have another 80 percent to go
i i am optimistic it's a question
of making sure that that part of
africa gets the attention it deserves
for toomey desertification is a threat
that affects us all
and the work is urgent
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you need a hundred thousand dollars to
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you might be able to snag it for less
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but if your plans to land an island and
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a boat and a note you wrote to denote
the notion that's our invitation
and we'll see you on island time hey
speaking of time
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I'm Carl Azuz for CNN.