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each of our actions has consequences who north korea lies at the moment if you plant a tree or cycle to work the ad hoc children and grandchildren. will be much better than what we believe to be for example but if we do change course if we continue positive pollution by ling up in landfills with garbage dumping plastics in our ocean our planet will become an inhabitant with the stock taking action we may need to can fix july's the problem and the solution better that's what we're here for how welcome to equal india i'm sunk that i'm. if you're standing in the middle of the forest it's quiet and peaceful. but if you're close to a construction site one jackhammer things 90 decibels of solved to go you know. let's go one notch higher if you're near an airplane its engine will expose you to

120 decibels of some. noise over 70 decibels for a prolonged period of time stops to damage i hear it but what happens if the city you need is a noisy city a city which is still loud for. we spend a few days in delhi to find out. driving on the roads of one of the most polluted and noisiest cities in the whole it is not just an assault on nursing pads lungs but also a what is yours he has been driving is all the rich in india's capital city bad for the we're going to years. braving the cold coffee of crap and none. let's start this has become routine to. the to me but.

i would like the government to ban it even if you are waiting at a red light to harness the heat. then you get ready in the modern leave home and this is the 1st thing you encounter doesn't it affect your day. i am in a terrible mood throughout the day but how many people can i fight against no one will understand if people were willing to understand they would not feel the need to have. these on the road 8 to 10 hours a day when i asked him if he was upset that all the noise pollution could be harming he was dismissed. he does disturbing what can i do i'll not be able to do our new any money or that way.

in india where noise permeates every day life if you are aware of the health implications it can cause permanent damage to people here. there were more than 10000000 vehicles on the streets of baghdad in 2008 the normal ambient sounds of the city have become a steady role and a serious health hazard for that sort of. lead him as a veteran and one mental and founder of our fathers a delhi based think tank he studies noise pollution levels and using a basic he shows us how the rest of the problem. from noise in the day. is 45 to 55 decibels.

almost double. header making process the noise level just stop and this is not a very busy road in delhi this would be a normal road and. busy intersection so this at this level will be at around $9095.00. and that is the problem when the noise level rises by. the strain on the ears increases significant. noise is understood. noise pollution is a big problem in india specially in metropolitan city big cities. you know every year center pollution control board publishes a data on noise pollution in metro metro cities report wasn't 2017 i do chores each and every mexico city. and all the monitoring stations were not meeting the m.b. and noise standards were there during the daytime or during the night time industrially

area in. india is eventually. among the few countries with extensive laws in place on noise pollution. noise is regarded as an air pollutant. years ago. were different. and like. most pollution is. the 1st issue is that the ugliness level is really really poor compared to air quality and water pollution if i compare then the enforcement action on noise pollution is very limited in force meant is given to police. you know i like air and water pollution but inforced meant is in the home so pollution authorities police doesn't have you know enough knowledge to do not have technical 9 and they

generally try not to you know take action on noise issue because they believe it is going to get your attention. to get a sense of how noisy daily and mind we are visiting the city's biodiversity. the problems associated with noise and not of course the district humans a field biologist and scientists in charge of the. it also adversely affects the ecology of the city. birds on local aviation and songs so they have songs and. we make them to bring me. pretty and therefore to. sound of

a particular. mix all these different. i personally seen that how birds have acquired they are far more historical and why they were there are no vacant on the road noir nor are there no context. so if there is no noise most of the birds started moving here and there and nesting success has grown many many. noise poses a threat to the wildlife the campers ability to communicate interferes with their ability to detect the clear desperate and also to look after. the heart of the problem is a serious lack of a very extensive. noise the sec to be one of the main factors reducing people's quality of life in big cities and see just be impacting get. sadik obama had to

studied the impact of noise pollution on graphic but the doctor is at the forefront of fighting noise pollution. yet it also isn't is a list of the phenomena for example when you will go well this is a good budget that so that you have this buzzing new york for a couple of 5 and then to get incomes back to normal that is called that then but if you take a short shift like that when you are exposed to loud noises all want to know what again the bodies says news it is love to come back to normal and then it is becomes well known and then that's called a moment and think. when that happens your hearing becomes it most of the damage and it is looking at me and there is no medicine that can get your hearing back. or study the spot of the voice getting in the ring in the words loud to cities leads to hearing loss equivalent to a person 10 to 20 years old other studies have also linked noise pollution stress

depression and cardiovascular problems but the problem. on this focused collaborative conscious efforts on me. now is about 2 years could be one solution there is a growing market in india for soundproofing to consumer solutions but the problem also needs to be addressed at a more fundamental we have to reduce the outside noise itself and the baby can reduce it is by 1st of all making sure that vehicles are meeting the standards in fact we would have to make sure that they. can get the noise levels are really high we would have to start putting noise values to residential and other critical areas so i think that is construction related mitigation measures that you have to do for noise and i feel that people have to all of us will have to come together and reduce noise. and one month in measures can help scientists for ya.

noise can be reduced with grease and shrubs the ticket the ford the more efficiently it can so that the sound and figure out noise what is going to be built noise there is very interesting. and way to getting air pollution but also cutting noise pollution because if it gets. to the noise if noise if there is a noise in a corner. it cannot but i've been through what are called. bark but i was it got built it but i did have plastic there for him back. to the birds any most anybody but the human being. people like nursing paul migrated to betty because it offers them a chance to earn a livelihood living business the city is not really an option the best you can do is appeal to his fellow citizens better judge.

delucchi is not really an exception most cities of the world. and many of them have another big problem if pollution the city of bangkok for example with millions of daily commuters coming in and out of the city traffic is a huge problem he said a feasible and sustainable solution to this let's take a look. welcome to bangkok and to endless clogged streets the traffic crawls along if it moves at all. most of the drivers here are commuters who live in the thai capital quiet suburbs. history jitter party and i is one of the millions of such commuters she lives in the lock sea district of northern bangkok at 7 am she begins her journey and eats her breakfast at the wheel . it's

a pattern repeated. commuters all over the city most choose to leave early as they don't know how long they'll need to get to work. the traffic various from one day to the next some days the congestion beginnings right outside my door other days it starts somewhere on the journey but more or less the entire route from my place to work is congested it's around 20 kilometers . the journey takes an hour and a half she once worked out that she wastes $32.00 days of her life every year stuck in traffic not to mention the impact on the environment const by all the exhaust fumes. monitoring stations across the city measure the air quality and deliver the results to the city authorities officials here say particulate matter is a real problem in bangkok as they know from personal experience. i could go. go

personally i'd like to go for walks in the city. sometimes i notice that it's difficult to bring me there but there are times when i get home and my ice of water in. the corner. and sometimes when i walk into the house my family starts now using as if i had brought the particulate matter with me. and this is one of the worst culprits the all diesel powered buses that crisscross the city most are around 25 years old they're popular because they're cheap to ride they account for around one 3rd of all journeys made in the city but they too get stuck in traffic around 60 percent of journeys are made by private car that will have to change if thailand is to meet its pledge of reducing greenhouse guy. it's

emissions by 20 percent by 2030. the government transport department says it's on the case. the. first thing we have to do is build up a better public transport network. and once there are enough public transport options for people to use we start tackling the issue of private cars. still insist on using their own car they will have to pay a charge. charge. one of the main plans is to expand the elevated rapid transit system for sky train as it's known by 2029 the network is sent to cover 500 kilometers right now the train service for momentarily small number of people only 3 percent of all journeys are made on the

skytrain or underground metro system. for those who don't live near the train line there's a relatively new service available and app that allows them to book a took took which will then take them to the nearest train station the auto rickshaw. providing a relatively quiet emission free journey to the sky train. the company behind it move me has only been going 3 years. we got. the call we have. before. many area on this year. like elsewhere many people in bangkok have seen their income take a hit and the current pandemic so the idea of entered. using

a tool for cars in the city is a sensitive issue. the benefits would surely make it worthwhile but better air quality and quieter and less congested roads and the income from the toll could be invested in further improving the public transport system. but in european cities too the debate over congestion charges continued for many years before action was taken and many western countries still don't have congestion tolls but things in bangkok clearly can't continue as they are the city currently has over 10000000 motorized vehicles 1000000 of them were added last year alone. cities label sleep looks nice doesn't it living in a 247 lit up city causes a huge problem especially to those whose health and well being depends on getting a good night's sleep. gazing at a sky resplendent with stars. something many people around the world are sadly

no longer able to enjoy. and events thanks to artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in $24.00 team the skies over hong kong were already 2 times brighter than they might be naturally. we suffer sleep deprivation from to much artificial light including that emitted by smartphones. it also disrupts the orientation of nocturnal birds and insects. our energy consumption could also be cut drastically by ensuring responsible outdoor lighting. for starters it would help with advertising signs and building facades weren't eliminated all long. and if nighttime lights were used only for the places where it's really needed.

some cities are already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fulda in germany it's among the $29.00 places so far to earn recognition as international dark sky communities. cities like these make it possible to see the starlit sky again and reset the body clocks of us creatures below to their natural rhythm. bats sleep during the day and only at night there are all species they've been living on earth for more than 50000000 years but today was 2 of them up threatened the habitats of sources of food a fast one issue and now the even have to deal with light pollution in the netherlands scientists have found a solution to this problem. and there is one. and

then special on the figures at least 5. far away from the bright lights of amsterdam dr commute spoelstra is often a creature that likes to operate under the cover of darkness. he is studying how lights are affecting bats. so far his team has found that the 19 species of bat found in the netherlands react in widely different ways. and that's have a very strong response to lart those actually driven by mostly by fear of predators so if you're about that flies very slowly you better hide away and don't show yourself in the light because it's it's risky however if you're a bat that flies very fast and is very agile then you don't need to be afraid that much for predators so you actually like taking away valuable habitat from the slow

flying species and exclude giving it to do these already common. but species and that's what course not a good thing in terms of biodiversity you actually reducing biodiversity that we're not total species are sensitive to the blue range of light as they have evolved to use the moon to navigate and brag of the blue the more distracting it is to test how species respond to other parts of the spectrum the researchers have put up almost $200.00 lamp posts around the country that shine a range of colors if you take away the blue part of the spectrum and and compensate by a bit more rats which you actually see here. and it may actually be less intrusive for these not in a species not all species may not perceive this light as intense and that's exactly what we have observed. a

different kind of red light is all the region amsterdam and the city's nocturnal inhabitants are out in all lest lenda. light here has become so bright it is now considered a pollutant. the world over brightness and luminosity are growing at a rate of 2 percent per year. as the night gets more illuminated studies are linking light pollution to destructive natural cycles as well as mental health in humans. the international dark sky association has called for a massive reduction in like leakage as the planet is becoming so bright borders can be clearly seen from space. but the netherlands is at the forefront of fighting like pollution in europe with

some and is the ballot is even switching off lights completely on parts of the highway. and there are churches outside eindhoven to farmers a nickel and her husband carlos are also members of the community fighting for darkness and it's bouts for reasons of their own. who try to. kill well you would say the harmful insects in the natural way so we use. insects to cool to kill other insects and that's where also the bats common because birds eat lots of cocks 1st and the cook shavers they actually eat the roots of to fruit trees especially the apple trees and so if the bats in a lot of cook shaffer's we don't have those terrible grips in the ground eating on groups of the trees so. that's what we like best. that's work is

natural pesticides and are an essential part of how the ecosystem of the all should functions. this farm even has a bat who del to make the extra welcome. you can see over here. that is that there are better living in the better job because this is what's over you on the knees. there excrements their poop. the community around has installed a special back friendly lights in the area to make sure the animal stay put as night falls. around 10 pm the bats check out of the herd and disposed through the farm ready for a meal and to play their role in the ecosystem.

maurice donner's is a researcher and signifies the company in the design the lights around the orchard . you know. he explains that lighting is more than merely installing glowing lamps. we need lighting but we do do with sustainable way. so obviously energy efficiency. in. great to cradle type of solution but also in direct effect is fighting enough and we have to effect on the although ecosystem and not just on the people. but some districts in the netherlands have in fact become darker as a result of such initiatives as satellite images show giving some of its residents and its resident bats the beloved's night sky back. if each

one of us is very of the consequences of our action on the environment that's when we can start to take action do a small thing every day to help it turn off the tap while brushing your teeth use a very usable coffee bag carry a plot bag on your shopping trip if it already doing this and more tell us about it on our social media handles until next week for modern tire t.v. in india and germany.

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groups how this is where. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend d.w. . what do dogs. go. horses and many other animals have in common. well they may be cute or provide us with milk or warm for help areas around. but some animals can do much more. their companions even therapists with healing powers and best of all without any side

effects. hello welcome to shape an email a sister therapy goes way back up until the aids century in belgian monasteries docs helped learning disabled children and this is flo she's my dog and she's helping me as well and getting fresh air get a lot of exercise and a view having a lot of fun but honestly she's not properly and. u.k. to special tasks she would meet top notch. today is a big day for these puppies they're just 5 weeks old but already a decision will be made about whether to train them a support dogs. for now the labrador retrievers are living in a conservatory converted for the purpose by a dog trainer overage sound. kill spend the next 2 and

a half years training them if they pass some initial tests. even at this age it's possible to identify whether a dog has the special characteristics needed for supporting people with disabilities. let's take a look together with you're going quba he 1st tests how relaxed and tolerant the puppy use a dog that remains calm is good for children with autism the test we're going to test several different skills. we want to see which puppies are best suited as support dogs. so we're looking at which ones have the most potential. to put in. we can see the front paws are opened just hanging down relaxed on his back legs are also relax that's right just hold him steady. obviously our tests have to be

suitable for a puppy there's a difference between testing a puppy and an adult dog. a test that gets for now gently begin blowing into his face a bit more ok and now in short bursts. it's a very good idea so moving on to the bottle we want to test how jumpy here is it's like the cat. so he's not very jumpy as a high level of tolerance towards noises very good. and. meanwhile 2 year old amy is almost ready to begin working as an autism support dog meets we had field we're now training with an autism lease so for that i need to attach a 2nd lease to the dog harness the 2nd cliche is intended to be used by a child with autism that you're going tries to pull the dog from response to simulate a child running the way a click in

a tree chose amy she has responded correctly. mia has autism she actually quite like shopping but often struggles with sensory overload because of her autism the 7 year old tends to shut down so that not even her parents can reach or a challenging situation. then give it me i'm call when we go shopping with mia she has no structure at all so whatever thought pops up in her head might be interesting for 3 seconds or 10 seconds the sun is county council i can hardly hold her anymore when she pulls away or if she lies on the floor it's impossible for me to pick her up like i used to is now that she's 7. now me yet has cuts by a dog trained for assistance with autism whose time don has come to see whether

caspar is doing his job properly. yes that often he's been trying to stay here and remain calm and relaxed and but not to respond to what's going on around him. but to be like an anchor. i cut through. caspar not only stops me running off he also helps her cope with frustration and feeling overwhelmed at the evening play area like this me it would be here there. and everywhere then there's the fascinating escalator over there to see she'd be constantly on the move. to be the dog provides an anchor so that she stays in one place and i know she's going to fall right and the others and this would be impossible otherwise she knows that the 2 of them are linked and cast the seems to radiate the calmness that mia needs to stay here and feel content to live

on vieques 800 and we're able to sit here at a table drink a cup of coffee like normal parents think of it without worrying about our child running away. over santa has been well chosen his latest protegees these 5 puppies will now also begin training as assistance dogs. docs are the most popular pets in the world take south america for example in south america more than 60 percent of the population owns a dock and is a g.p. i would say that's great because pet owners are usually healthier they suffer less from depression and less from anxiety disorders and docs can be really heroes and life savers what you say about that. an alpine rescue worker is digging a hole need to step down into the snow. it's part of an avalanche rescue exercise.

and then the hole containing the victim a team member is filled in. the snow cat packs the freezing white mass down caught on the stage is set. mountain rescue team member a year creature man and his dog and so have to find the casualty fast survival chances sink rapidly after 15 minutes up to half an hour or 2 out of 3 people buried by an avalanche a dead. end sos a tough canine the wind and temperature of minus 20 degrees celsius is no problem a tool for his dentist's very undercoat. in the meantime the snow is being crushed firmly down it's realistic after an avalanche the snow is packed like concrete despite the icy trip and so doesn't need warming up he's ready for action

. go on himself. and say relies entirely on his nose so far he's not got wind of any human presence so resham man has to steer him towards the avalanche while not preventing him from following a scent he discovers. inside 90 seconds and says picked up a scent and a few seconds later he's found the spot where the avalanche victim lies buried. lead to the dogs indicating that. it's been 15 minutes since the alarm was raised time's running out there on the. stool to go. see noah is a good dog was super to the place where is the moment born. of course him and so has shown roughly where the casualty is located now you know krishna man has

defined him using a metal rod to. some sort of young i'm using the probe now because i know the casualties are very down. and says job is basically done but he still digs away while standing tries to feel his way to the casualty thinking it. was. was. still dodging away but i'm not detecting the casualty yet. and so snow's is phenomenal. you know what it's nose pretty dense or very little actually gets through to the surface. avalanche dogs have even sniffed people out 7 meters down in the snow. you obviously don't and the dog's nose is a miracle of nature. and so such took only a little over a minute or so. but now the casualty has to be done gallup's.

which is. then off to more than half an hour. right now where is he then where is he. ok. go on in you go out here and then he will know. you come come outside go for exercise purposes the casualty is treated as unconscious so much as ever to think it was easy and has to be called out to talk always look. under real conditions and say i just saved in life today and it's so much fun he wants to do it time and time again it depends on you know. what can any moods do what doctors and nurses can't. that's it what our talk today is about.

andrea bates thank you very much for being with us today you're a psychologist and have some 20 years of experience in the field of animal assisted interventions 1st of all what exactly is that the main thing is you integrate an animal into the next system except at therapy and address administered by a person who has the official training and the strengths are can you tell me and what context has animal assisted paraplegia or animal assisted interventions been successfully used so far very popular and also or successful animals have been integrated in any kind of education and there are people children. rather it all can they have a kind of natural affinity towards animals they're curious about them and so you can find a lot of school visiting dogs or animals is that it occasion approaches like that huge driving are for the disabled for instance and the other group that has very

highly. visible in the field of animals that interventions are seniors so one of the earliest intervention this is in programs with dogs in homes for other leads and that's also really work service dogs are a great distraction and they're also social catalysts and they enable arm and facilitate conversations between humans that are present many they can dive in the liberty prairie here what do we know about the scientific evidence do animal assisted intervention really work there are several studies documenting that and releases that interventions can reduce depression and anxiety that can improve mood trost generally cation and also empathy are they reduce all kinds of stress indicators here your blood pressure goes our heart rate goes down the levels of the

stress hormone cortisol also are reduced and one hormone is especially interesting with hormone oxytocin the levels of this home and i increased and you have a lot of positive effects either up because it governs a whole system for harm and connectedness so you regenerate and you also get a most awful orientation towards others and this also gives you social support other humans for instance so when you look internationally is animal sister intervention like a global phenomenon or is it just used when you're up. it is really a global phenomenon it started marlice in the united states and spread out to canada and then it came over to great britain and germany actually a whole europe is now. very into the militias that interventions also is an arm has been interested in this kind of intervention in arms over 20 years on japan

korea and also south america is fair articulate and animal suitable. no after say i now many people agree that only certain species should be used and this is just a usually domesticated space yes like dogs cats horses cows goats sheep but also the llamas and the packers are very popular and they also have a long history of being socialized and. adam has decayed by humans even though you will find always different kind of examples where other animal species is used like dolphins this is why it's. when we talk about animal assisted intervention in general are there certain limitations to that form of therapy one exclusion criteria could be that there's

a strong energy again for this because years. another reason is people who are ignorant suppressed immunosuppressants a future some kind of sickness and then it's very it's a high risk to exist. now the reason could be in the people are just afraid of certain kind of animals horses dogs and then you need really to consider if you take the time to 1st work on that fear oh it's another kind of animal free therapy would be better for us and rabbits thank you so much for this interesting conversation and the insides he offered on animal assisted interventions newark i'm . in good shape your weekly health show on t w covers many aspects of health care. look at what's new in medical treatment nutrition fitness and beauty. we talk about these topics in depth with experts.