china is promising huge partners rich. but in europe there's a sharp warning program for exception when you from the new superpower will become dependent on it china is a great way to your. start feb 19th on d w. each of our actions has consequences to north korea lies the moment if you plant a tree or cycle to work the air our children and grandchildren. will be much better than what we breed today for example but if you do change course if we continue wasn't pollution by ling up man foods with garbage dumping plastics in our. planet

we become an inhabitant with the stock taking action 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. 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 sound studio. let's go one notch higher if you're near an airplane its engine will expose 120 decibels of some. noise over 70 decibels for a prolonged period of time stops for damage i heard but what happens if the city you need been is a noisy city a city which is too loud for too little we spend a few days of delhi to find out.

driving on the roads of one of the most polluted and noisiest cities in the world it is not just an assault on nursing pads like this book also a call for his years he has been driving his all the rich in india's capital city dead for over 20 years tells us braving the coffin of traffic and relentless honking sound this has become routine to. me but that they are not people honk are necessary i would like the government to ban it even if you are waiting at a red light they honk their horns in the. event you get ready in the modern leave home and this is the 1st thing you encounter doesn't effect your day with that got absolutely i am in a terrible mood throughout the day but how many people can i fight against no one will understand if people were unwilling to understand they would not feel the need

to harm back in a moment and somebody had made but about. these on the road it took an hour as a day when i asked him if he was upset that all the noise pollution could be harming he was dismissed. i'm here to do is disturbing what can i do i will not be able to arnie any money or their way out of what i ate. 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 denver in 2080 the normal ambient sounds of the city have become a steady. and

. he studies. using a basic he shows us. the problems. in the. head of a can say the noise level just stop and this is not a very busy road in delhi this would be a normal road into a. busy intersection so this this level will be at around $9095.00. and. when the noise level rises by. the ears increases significantly.

this is. a big problem in india specially in metropolitan city big cities. you know every year. a date on noise pollution in metro metro cities report was in 27. ek every mexico city. and all the stations were not. there during the daytime or during the night time in industrial area in. india among the few countries with extensive. noises of. years ago.

with different limits on one condition however unlike air pollution noise pollution is mostly ignored by the authorities the 1st issue is that the of venice level is really really poor compared to air quality and water pollution if i compare then the enforcement action and always pollution is very limited. in force to make is given to police a like air and water pollution but in force meant in the hands of pollution authorities police doesn't have enough knowledge on this issue they do not have technical. and they generally try not to you know take action on noise issues because they believe it is going to create a lot of social tensions to get a sense of how noisy. we are visiting the city. biodiversity park. the problems associated with noise are not of course to district or to humans as field biologist and scientists in charge of the for. it also adversely

affects the ecology of the city. birds on the local ideation and songs so they have songs and. we make them to bring meat protect them from the british and therefore to. sound of apocalyptic it makes all these different. i personally seen that how birds have acquired the out of form of historical white where there were no vacant on the road noir nor no context of what was known what. so if that is known why is most of the birds started moving here and there and nesting success has grown many many ford. noise poses a threat to the wildlife that hampers animals ability to communicate interferes

with their ability to detect the kid get free and also to look after their offspring. are. at the heart of the problem is a serious lack of a very extensive noise is said to be one of the main factors reducing people's quality of life in big cities and see to be impacting good. had studied the impact of noise pollution on graphic person the doctor is at the forefront of fighting noise pollution. yet it also isn't is a list of the phenomenon for example when you would go well this could take like good vibes that so then you had this buzzing you know you know for a couple of 5 and then to get incomes back to normal that's called the band but if it's a short shift like when you were exposed to loud noises well wouldn't know what again

the bodies says news this is love to come back to normal and then it is becomes full moon and then that's called a prominent a short shift when that happens you're hearing becomes it was severely damaged and it didn't look anything and there is no medicine that can get your hearing back. study just part of the getting in the ring in the world's loudest 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 won't be dramedy on this focused collaborative conscious efforts on me. noise about 2 years could be one solution there is a growing market in india for soundproofing necros to consumation solutions but the problem also needs to be addressed at a more fundamental they have to reduce the outside noise itself and the baby can reduce it is by force of will make the showed that vehicles are meeting the

standards in fact we would have to make sure that they could. get in bed the noise levels are really high we would have to start putting noise values to heated presidential and other critical areas so i think that is construction related mitigation measures that you have to do for noise and i'll give it to you people have to all of us will have to come to visit and reduce noise. and one mental measures can help to say as scientists for ya. noise can be reduced with trees and shrubs the ticket before the more efficiently you can see the sound and figure out noise what is going to be how that builds new eyes that 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 a. bark but i was it got built it but i didn't have that for him back. to the birds any both anybody have a human being. people like not simple who migrated to delhi because it offers them a chance to earn a livelihood living this noisy city is not really an option the best he 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 it's pollution the city of bangkok for example with millions of daily commuters coming in and out of the city traffic is a huge problem is that a feasible and sustainable solution to this let's take a look. welcome to bangkok and to endless klong streets

the traffic crawls along if it moves at all. most of the drivers here are commuters who live in the thai capital point suburbs. is 3 jitter party ma is one of the millions of such commuters she lives in the loch sea district of northern bangkok at 7 am she begins her journey and eats her breakfast at the wheel . it's a pattern repeated by. meters 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 varies from one day to the next some days the congestion begins 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 yet.

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. personally i'd like to go for walks in the city. sometimes i notice that it's difficult to bring. 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 new using as if i had brought the particulate matter with me.

and this is one of the worst culprits the old 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 cars that will have to change if thailand is to meet its pledge of reducing greenhouse gases. by 20 percent by 2030. the government transport department says it's on the case. the 1st thing we have to do is build up a better public transport network the. only ones there are enough public transport options for people to use when we start tackling the issue of private cars will.

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 remember to me 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.

but. before. i wanted it. on this year. like elsewhere many people in bangkok have seen their income take a hit and the current pandemic so the idea of introducing. the 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 level sleep looks nice doesn't it of 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 that's 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 too much artificial light including that emitted

by smartphones. it also just wraps 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 if advertising signs and building facades weren't too limited long. and if nighttime lights were used only for the places where it's really needed. some cities have already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fall down 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 and reset the body clocks of us creatures below to their natural

rhythm. bats sleep during the day and come out only at night they aren't all species they've been living on earth for more than 50 years but today most of them up threatened the habitats and sources of food are fast one issue and now they 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 spalls 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.

rats have a very strong response to light there's 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 it's very agile and 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. nocturnal 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 to a new 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 the most species not those 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 the splendor. 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 of its abilities 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 its baths for reasons of their own we tried to. kill well you would see 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 bets of cooks shaffer's who don't have those terrible wraps in the ground eating on groups. sheets so. that's why we like best. that work is natural best of sides and are an essential part of how the ecosystem of the art should functions. on this farm even has a bad hood dell to make the mom lives feel extra welcome. you can see over here. that the that there are better living in the better tell because the see what's over you on the move. there excrements that prove. the community

around has installed a special back friendly lights in the area to make sure the animals 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. maryse donner's is a researcher and signifies the company in the design the lights around the orchard . he explains that lighting is more than merely installing glowing lamps. we need lighting that we do do with sustainable way. show obviously energy efficiency. in.

solutions but also in the direct effect which fights are going to have to effect on the. ecosystem and not just on 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 their beloved night sky back. but. if each one of us is a very of the consequences of our action on the barman 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 mug 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 from our entire t.v. in india and germany.

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