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hello everyone welcome to CNN 10 happy
Friday Eve it's Thursday November 14th
I'm KY wire we've got a great show
stacked for you today so let's get
started now we begin in the land of Fire
and Ice Iceland where a natural
phenomenon is Raising some questions
Iceland is one of the only countries in
the world that has both glaciers and
volcanoes there are 32 active volcanoes
on the island nation that's only about
the size of the states of Kentucky or
Virginia or Ohio and we've seen an
uptick in volcanic eruptions in Iceland
in recent years scientists there are
studying whether an increase in the
melting glaciers due to Rising
temperatures across the world could be
causing more volcanic eruptions there
CNN's Alisa Rafa has
more a land of ice and fire Iceland is
renowned for both its stunning volcanoes
and Glaciers but scientists are now
studying whether climate change is
affecting the balance between these two
natural
wonders around 2 million tourists visit
Iceland each year many hoping to see an
active volcano showering red hot lava or
get a glimpse of a cool Blue Glacier
thousands of years old but researchers
say there could be a connection between
melting glaciers which are shrinking
because of rising global temperatures
and the frequency of volcanic eruptions
Iceland is essentially one of the best
places in the world to study this it's a
natural laboratory because we have both
volcanism and Glaciers so at the moment
about 10% of Iceland is covered by
glaciers and we have over 32 active
volcanoes here scientists say the ASA
volcano in Iceland's Central Highlands
has risen about 80 cm in the past 3
years because of pressure building
underneath it that's pushing the ground
upwards the theory is that magma or
pressurized gas under a volcano
increases as glaciers melt because the
heavy ice no longer weighs down the
Earth's crust allowing magma to move
more freely underground and those
Subterranean pressure changes can
permeate to areas which aren't directly
under glaciers like Asia which is just
North of the country's largest glacier
but with recent iions in gvic a town in
Southwest Iceland which not only put on
a spectacular lava show but also forced
the evacuation of the town's residents
scientists are eager to learn more about
what's triggering such volatility there
are many benefits of volcanoes U all the
geothermal geothermal heat we heat all
the houses with geothermal so lots of
benefits but now with the activity in
Southwest Iceland where lot of property
has been destroyed and people have
needed to move out we are reminded about
how uh hazardous volcano are preliminary
results in one study show that in the
last three decades magma beneath Iceland
was produced at a rate two to three
times what it would have been without
ice loss a possible pressure cooker
lurking in one of the world's most
picturesque
places 10-second trivia the Lou Museum
in Paris was originally built to be a
fortress an iron Factory a space
Observatory or a museum
Museum answer is Fortress the Lou the
largest museum in the world contains
more than 500,000 works of art it was
originally commissioned as a fortress by
King Philip II in 1190 ad to protect the
City of Paris about 300 mil north of the
Lou in Paris in the Netherlands we find
another one of the world's most famous
museums the reiches museum in the city
of Amsterdam it's home to Dutch
masterpieces by artists like vermier van
go and Rembrandt and Rembrandt's
world-renowned painting Night Watch is
getting a touchup we're going to learn
how a group of restorers are using
careful techniques to discover the story
behind the painting and how Rembrandt
was able to put this enormous work
together nearly 400 years
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ago Rembrandt's monumental painting The
Night Watch has always been a star of
Amsterdam's reich's
Museum but now you can see the story
behind the 1642 Masterpiece which
measures at a ground 12 by 14 1/2 ft
like never
before after 5 years of exhaustive
research a team of eight restorers are
starting a grand public preservation
project that's open for all to see we
are now removing the old varnish uh of
the night watch and uh we are using a
synthetic non-woven tissue to do this uh
and in this tissue we have a very
limited amount of solvent uh we apply
the tissue on the paint surface for a
very limited amount of time and then
take it off and with that we remove the
bulk of the old varnish the removal of
the old varnish aims to preserve the
painting as well as to give Insight on
its condition and rembrance techniques
and process as well you can see on the
paint surf there are many old discolored
retouchings and they often have been
applied very broadly covering original
paint so we want to remove those and
apply new uh fine retouchings it's
really a next phase of operation Night
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Watch researchers at Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute have
discovered a new species of sea slug it
lives in some of the deepest parts of
the ocean the new species is nicknamed
mystery Mullis it's the first known sea
slug to swim in parts of the ocean that
are 1,000 to 4,000 M below the surface
and Untouched by sunlight scientists
describe the new sea slug as having a
gelatinous hood a flat tail with
finger-like projections and colorful
organs in the middle it can also light
up with bioluminescence to scare off
Predators researchers say they first
spotted the species in February of 2000
off of California's Monterey Bay it was
during a dive with a robotic camera and
they've been studying it ever
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since today's story getting a 10 out of
10 a new baby pygmy hippo joining the
ranks of swoon-worthy Internet
Sensations the cute calf comes to us not
long after another baby pygmy hippo
named mudang in Thailand stole our heart
CNN's Jeremy Roth introduces us to
haggus animal lovers and activists
rejoice a brand new endangered pygmy
hippo calf was just born and she is a
CutiePie born at Scotland's Edinburg Zoo
the pint-sized padm is just days old and
is being closely monitored and get this
her name is haggus this thing writes
itself haggus is already a social media
star of course leaving the platform
formerly known as Twitter all up Twitter
but maybe the best part her arrival
provides a much-needed boom to the
endangered pygmy hippo population which
has reportedly dwindled to a mere 25 500
worldwide all right that's all we have
time for for now our shout out today is
going to West Jordan Utah all my friends
at Sunset Ridge Middle School keep
shining bright you are more powerful
than you know thanks to all of you for
spending part of your day with us here
on CNN 10 we'll do it again tomorrow