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I'm Coy wire this is CNN 10 and we start
in Spain today where they are seeing a
major drought the Spanish National
Weather Service says the country has
been in a long-term drought since the
end of last year in March the country
only received 36 percent of its average
monthly rainfall which made it the
second driest March this Century but it
didn't stop there that Trend continued
into last month and we may see it now
end up being the driest on record these
conditions have been caused by Soaring
temperatures that make it feel like it's
mid-summer instead of Springtime the
lack of water well it's having a
catastrophic impact on farms across the
region according to the coordinator of
farmers and ranchers organizations the
drought has affected about 60 percent of
Spain's Countryside and it's destroyed
crops across more than 8 million Acres
that's an area bigger than the entire
state of Maryland also Spaniards have
been asked to conserve water by taking
quick showers being mindful when washing
dishes and not filling their swimming
pools our senior International
correspondent Fred plankin has more on
the very dry conditions in Spain
from afar even a natural disaster can
look Majestic
but up close the full impact of the
global climate emergency is clear to see
this is the sow Reservoir near Barcelona
normally one of the largest bodies of
fresh water in this part of Spain but
months of drought and the water levels
are so low and entire medieval village
usually underwater has come to light
the folks here say normally you'd barely
be able to see even the tip of the
medieval church because it would be
almost fully submerged but now as you
can see the church is very much on land
and the authorities hear fear things
will get much worse once the Summer's
heat really sets in
the sow Reservoir is already at less
than 10 percent capacity and that's
causing hundreds of thousands of Acres
of Farmland to dry up all of the sweet
is probably lost farmer Santi caudivia
shows me why
the grain should be milky he said we're
in a critical moment if it doesn't rain
this will end up empty
we should be seeing the grain come up to
here but it's only like this if it
doesn't rain in the coming week the crop
will be zero
but there is no rain in sight and
temperatures in Spain have skyrocketed
scientists at The Institute of agri-food
research and Technology are trying to
find ways to make very little water go a
longer way
Chief scientist Juan Girona says
efficiency needs to be maximized
how taking the most of our wardrobe of
water just like the crops the people in
this area are also in survival mode
dozens of towns are without water and
need to get it trucked in
The Village Castel Seer hasn't had any
for about a year and residents say they
can't even remember the last time it
rained
I don't recall Juan tells me it's been a
long time a year or more without proper
rain nothing back at the sow Reservoir
authorities are actually draining most
of the remaining water to prevent this
precious and ever scarcer resource from
getting contaminated by the sludge at
the bottom of this once Mighty Lake
all right summer is just around the
corner and if you and your family are
thinking about heading to any of the
South Florida or Caribbean beaches you
might need to know that you could
encounter some seaweed and by some I
mean a whole lot of it that's because a
record-breaking amount of seaweed known
as sargassum which can smell like rotten
eggs or sulfur when it washes up on
shore it's starting to pile up on
popular beaches threatening tourism in
certain areas check out this NASA image
which shows just how enormous this
massive blob of floating seaweed is 13
million tons of it just drifting
ominously throughout the Caribbean
stretching all the way to the west coast
of Africa CNN's Leila Santiago reports
from a beach in Key West Florida and
tells us how this seaweed phenomenon is
just the tip of the iceberg with the
peak expected to come later this summer
this is sargassa mixed in with a few
other things and this is what is
inundating Florida's Coast specifically
they're expecting the east coast and
remember last month we talked about this
but now we're actually starting to see
it come in in those record numbers that
scientists predicted so much so that
take a look over here the beach rakers
here on this beach in Key West have
already arrived and have already done
one run through on what's hitting uh the
Florida coast right now see let's let's
go for a walk so I can kind of show you
how all of this stuff just piles up and
again gets pretty smelly uh because it
decays out here and as we mentioned this
is what one scientist told me it's just
the tip of the iceberg more expected
because when this is out there it is not
only right now a 5 000 mile long body of
seaweed it is still growing while it's
out there so it is increasing in the
amount that will be headed this way
10 second trivia what country has the
southernmost capital in the world
Argentina Australia New Zealand or South
Africa
when it comes to Capital Cities
Wellington New Zealand is as low as you
can go sitting at 41 degrees south
now when you think of New Zealand you
might think of kiwis which is the
country's iconic national bird but the
population of these flightless birds has
plummeted conservationists say that most
people have never seen a kiwi in the
wild and estimate that they're only
about 70 000 of them left in the country
but as our Michael Holmes tells us there
are now efforts to keep this species
alive and thriving in New Zealand
the fight to save the Kiwi the iconic
flightless bird is taking off in New
Zealand ever since people came here
we've had a special connection with the
animal known as the Kiwi uh Central to
Maori mirth our sports teams our rugby
league team our Defense Force you know
even when we go overseas we're known as
kiwis so
it's our duty really to look after the
animal that's gifted us its name there
are about 90 initiatives to save the
kiwis in New Zealand many of them
focusing on removing threats which have
reduced the population by educating dog
owners and culling predator species like
stoats kiwi is surprisingly tough and
resilient they've got these big fighting
claws so an adult here we can fight off
a whole heap of pests from possums and
stoats that really the only issue for
adult kiwi is roaming dogs where they
get hammered is Stokes eating the chicks
before they get up to that fighting
weight a group of kiwis raised in a
breeding program was released near
Wellington last November experts say
that could be the first time wild kiwis
lived in the area in about a century and
so far they seem to be thriving we did
the first health check a couple of
months later and we're expecting them to
kind of you know whole weight or lose a
bit of weight but the really pleasing
result was that half of those boots had
put on weight including uh one bird put
on a whopping 400 grams so it's like
there's uh yeah plenty of food in the
ladder out on these Hills that's
hopefully Room to Grow for New Zealand's
National Treasure and the national
effort to save it Michael Holmes CNN
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all right our final story takes us to
America's Heartland where a fur baby is
getting today's 10 out of 10 four
winning this year's bark Ranger
superintendent of the Gateway Arch Park
in St Louis meet the adorable Betty
Faith the 12 year old Basset Hound
taking the crown adopted back in 2020
after being rescued from a tough
breeding and hoarding situation Betty
has a new leash on life as the top dog
at Gateway Orange Park Bark Ranger is a
program run by the National Park Service
and bark stands for bag your pet's waste
always lease Your Pet Respect wildlife
and know where you can go that's pretty
dark on sweet congrats Betty Faith we're
giving a special shout out to Delaware
Valley High School in Milford
Pennsylvania today we see you Warriors
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