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tv   Weathering The Extremes  Al Jazeera  May 1, 2018 12:32pm-1:00pm +03

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hundred ninety s. rose to become that and pleasure an aide to pope francis every priest has vowed to fight the charges. as on the so-called migrant caravan have been allowed to cross over from mexico into u.s. territory. the latin american migrants celebrated the news as they wait their turn to enter into the united states it took them a month to trap you from and dearest salvador and guatemala well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after earthrise statement that so much about. just.
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the conditions for existence on a sustained by complex web of climatic processes. i mean the rains predictable seasons and consistent temperatures all allow life to flourish. but the overreliance on fossil fuels is causing the delicate balance of our planet to shift. instances of extreme weather you speak of rat but now deadly heat waves wildfires powerful floods hurricanes and droughts are becoming the norm and. the question is no longer will they happen but when and how we can cope with them. i'm going to
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in kenya to explore a high tech solution that is helping her to survive on going to. a number a few viewed in myanmar where drones are helping to protect coastal communities against extreme weather events. two years when you have been in the grip of a devastating drought amongst those worst affected are kenya over five million pastoralists for whom finding fresh water and lush pastureland is critical for the survival of their herds but something has been developed could something like this hold the key to getting heard is around the country through these difficult times. today and called every scout is being launched in the town of. they'll be heard from all over the region who've come to learn more about the app and take that
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information back to their villages i'm interested to see what they make of the new technology and today it's been officially rolled out in kenya. i mean. i think so what. p.c.i. hopes to revolutionize how hurt is find water by using something eighty seven percent of kenyans really have in their pockets. a smartphone well. yet. the app access is satellite maps which detailed the water conditions throughout kenya updating every ten days. you could offer us now five. was right. using it head is can see instantly where to target migration and avoid using dry areas which need time to recuperate thanks.
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to find out more about how the app can help it as i'm off to southern kenya with some messiah i have lost the hof their cattle. joshua has been using three months. joshua yes thank you so much allowing us to come to your home and join you today these are your animals yeah these are my animals is my father says it to me. is my. brother. is my it's a pleasure to meet you all so we're going to get started are we going to walk now or. we will.
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be. a bit wild when you go through that mena can possibly. as much as five hundred dollars at market even move. something that seems so simple but it's really not. a good rhythm strength to make it. so when you have a drought like kenya is having now how does that affect your cattle. where they might get to. fifteen. is very.
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i mean i know today we're going to take a trick and i'm hoping that you can show me the tool that you've been using now that makes it. that will be making. us. wow long way to go. our custom to booking hours it takes to find good pasta.
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this is. when i was a. if. we tried to help. you. and some credit. so you had gone to try and look for water and pastures for the cows but the car just couldn't make the journey and the car just collapsed here yeah it was
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a big call to. be. in the morning six. in the event so it was a real loss for you. and just it brings back home just the thought that it's such a difficult way of life because you have to keep on the move to find the water and to find the grazing lands but in order to move these animals use so much energy to go from one place to another so if you don't know where you're going and you're just trying your luck wherever you can it's incredibly hard for these animals. with almost thirty percent of his livestock already lost drought it's even more pressing for joshua to keep his surviving cattle in good condition which means finding ample water during the training we have won't do the. point somewhere here
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. according to the app it's thirty kilometers from where they start. is a really popular place to come and drink someone else's. can we find a place under the tree maybe have a bit of a rest. so can we see this watering hole on the map is the model we came from. somewhere here. knowing the location of attempting to source like this could mean life or death for hood. well get better weather was. nice it was a woman the app can make all this much simpler it's all about what you. just don't allow you to. ok because at the moment when you need to look for water for your cattle for pastures what do you do you just go blind and so you think you might use it. and does it sound interesting that it's something something you would
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use and you could. it's been ten hours and we're into what should be good posture that. this is where you are in the morning. and we have on the way from order to carry we maybe. not so that they maybe have an honorary messiah maybe. numbers you can do the different. yeah yeah it's so much better. so the cows will be able to stay here they'll have enough food to eat they will stay here oh almost one month and then left there with. them up to where i mean that's the thing i've had a wonderful day thank you so much i'm tired and i've had
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a wonderful story and i must thank you the weekend wolf. because the sun is going to send a couple couple. yeah. yeah i could use one. for her. for the herders with access to satellite maps livestock mortality has really hard. since joshua has relied on i for scout he hasn't lost any cause to drought. to him he has been revealed. access. yes they have a lot more money and oh yeah that was very like it however was an. extreme weather athens and now a regular occurrence around the world. but. scientists have found that human caused
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climate change is at the root of over two thirds of them the result is often human suffering. in twenty seventeen hundreds were left dad and many thousands homeless by a unusual weather conditions. the hurricane season in the caribbean caused unprecedented levels of destruction. devastating floods swept across southeast asia tornadoes hit the south of the u.s. and california was roasted by a heat wave. since two thousand and nine one person every second has been displaced by disaster. it's predicted that by twenty fifty they'll be two hundred million environmental migrants. but the country observed is people migrate temporarily under were short distance internally between their countries if there's
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a drought or an environmental stress you move you temporarily moved but the new strategic spectrum of new incentives and the reality that people come back with we might see in the future is permanent migration and long distance collaboration you might see how communities having to be look right across their life records are no longer have sustainable it might be an entire nation states that have to move. mangroves are among the most fired up. first habitats on the planet may play a vital role in the lives of coastal communities but these forests are facing deforestation thirty five percent of the world's mangroves have already been lost and here in the irrawaddy delta only sixteen percent will bijan cover is left and in myanmar where local innovative project is combining grassroots conservation
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state they are drawing technology to take mangrove regeneration to new heights. jamar is vulnerable to cyclons which strike every few years in two thousand and eight the worst ever cycle nargis claimed more than one hundred thirty thousand lives. experts now believe that mangroves hold the key to saving thousands of lives when the next big storm hits. find out how i've come to be a local coconut farmer who agreed to show me his mangrove forest. these are proper trees. the tallest man groups here reached twenty five meters and a sturdy forty centimeters in diameter the force was planted after
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a cycle one hundred seventy five. these trees here did you plant them we had to do with. my. thought. you can imagine these incredibly. violent storms that blew in here and you start to understand how these mature forth actually have the capacity to break that wind and stop some of that storm surge making its way into these settlements and farms and maybe some of the other farms where there's no mangroves do you know of any farms. suffer because of the storms. if you don't you know you dead. dead line and look at your own machinery out about you know a car michigan yadi maybe here i mean you've got you know. i mean i get up there
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so it's a protection yeah. so if mangroves is so effective at protecting against storms why if one million hecht is being cut down since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight leaving the population here unprotected. i'm meeting with a known and ecologists with thirty years' experience in forestry to find out. i know you thanks for me that they are going to do you thanks so much. when heads the world few international foundations among groups regeneration project here and i'm not. going. to. get.
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the feeling that. if it is. that good. oh. wow. at the moment this segment graphic all of this mental condition is seriously degraded right in that cost eighty are sixty percent of the villages they don't have a million jobs they're trying to find out their money from their maker over here and then they can come in three within that one hour while they can get money for their livelihood now i understand so you're talking about really a negative feedback cycle yeah it's this confluence of the environmental stresses and the economic stresses that has driving people into the mangrove yeah yeah i
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understand. shrimp and rice farming as well as charcoal production and strip myanmar of mangroves leaving it critically exposed. if action isn't taken soon the communities who live here in danger of being decimated by the next big storm. there are still trees here yeah yeah there is this intrigue ok this is a war going to be ok from there to evolve in fifteen. when the hundred locals have systematically planted four hundred thousand seedlings by hand here in the last three years goes right through that all the way through doesn't it yeah. yeah. but the job is far from complete ok so we've come right into the thick of it here all that work that we can here in the background that's
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a lot of chopping and preparing of the ground before three hundred thousand seedlings or more are going to go into this mud so it sounds like there's a lot of hard work going on so we should maybe go on try and lend a hand. so thank you kelly and you tube are you from this area you know i know there are all of them are literally. i don't even know buying it all loaded i'm on old d. you don't seem. to me as he invited me all my way more lethal you feel some way you're. giving something back when you know i lose i got out all. you know on the cold while you're here do you like the look people that are nominated we've. got all my d.v.d. of unity we've been married we've got a mom who they know they'll be able. to my.
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mom of the dollar. you know. yeah i understand you show me how to do it i am a complete no of it just. can't. get it get the hang of it i feel it's all about the angles to get. just like that. the team of thirty five thousand hectares of coastline to plant. the racing to do it before the next big cycle that. this is an incredibly complex ecosystem but with looking at you as an apologist it must be incredibly challenging. to move towards restoration to win this turn to the latest technology. business. we're trying to.
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make there are plenty and room and they are they working today they. don't want him to be here. today the oxford based team of scientists will be testing with their double propeller quadruped co-opted room in front of seven thousand seats in and out is still continue edge to stand back. and reena for the rink who heads up the project. so as this have been the mood for anything like this you know of no two thousand knowledge we are definitely the first one and it's going to be our largest experiment is it just we can have a look at one of the poets just to kind of get a sense of what you were actually dealing with here so what is what is inside this they're made from by the great evil plastic and all natural material and society
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also while you have local science and you have called me or else and natural material looks like we're nearly there i just saw a green light. ok well good. the test will be successful if one show into the ground. imbedded in the soil deep enough for growth to occur if it works the team returned in a few months time to time twenty cool believe. that is. i have never seen it from a guy before yeah. the drone has a preprogramed flight path if the seeds penetrate the soil the chance of each of these pods becoming a tree is greater than if planted by nature or hand because the depths will be
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moving system to it goes. down and the team are happy the seeds are in the ground and it's time for nature to take its course i was just thinking inside this thing i mean it's there's so much more than just seeds it's it's to future it's a but then shal to save a life because it's to live in a shield they protect people from the ocean they protect people from tsunami from here against and we have to do it now and we have to do it at the massive scale because from today to maybe six not months from now maybe one year from now is maximum we will have a growing shield already so if the cycling hits next year people here will be protected and when you when you put it like that you know all of a sudden something so small can seem very significant indeed so i'm actually going to put that back in the ground where we found.
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the scientist test is finished. but for women his team is just the beginning. they wanted to the seeds progress carefully. and fall goes to plan many more trees will be planted by drone here in the near future helping to safeguard the coast from extreme weather. all over the world people are having to adapt to unpredictable climate and weather patterns. in canada west sea ice has become dangerously thin a scheme is providing real time measurements of ice thickness to local communities . this data reveals which routes the safe to travel and which are knowledge.
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meanwhile in los angeles where extreme drought has become the norm. ninety six million shade pulls have been put into the l.a. reservoir to help reduce evaporation rates. these projects show the level of innovation the communities are using to protect themselves against increasingly volatile weather. but the question remains are these long term solutions or are they just masking the real problem. with the waste locally and people in the world food production is under increasing strain to keep pace with a growing global population al-jazeera is environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand just from this
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