coincidence. that previously the earth was just in the messy chemistry level of publishing. where the impossible. to get off was the creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery that there is only. one for earth. starts feb 11th on d w. each of our actions has consequences we may not realize at the moment if you plant a tree a cycle to work the air our children and grandchildren we will be much better than what we did for example but if we do change course if we continue causing pollution

by ling up in landfills with garbage dumping plastics in our oceans our planet will become an inhabited 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 some of 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 jackrabbit things 90 decibels of solved or 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 for damage i heard but what happens if the city you need is a noisy city a city which is too loud for. we spend

a few days in delhi to find. 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 but also a call for his years he has been driving his all the rich in india's capital city debt for over 20 years tells us braving the coffin of traffic under 9 plus honking silence has become routine to. little here but that they are not being put in hong kong unnecessarily i would like the government to ban it even if you are waiting at a red light they honk their horns. then you get ready in the modern home and this is the 1st thing you encounter doesn't effect your day with that got it so you would lee i am in

a terrible mood throughout the day but how many people can i fight against no one will understand if people read willing to understand they would not feel the need to honk at the bad lady but about. these on the road it took $10.00 a day when i asked him if he was afraid that all the noise pollution could be harming him he was dismissed. i'm here to do is disturbing what can i do i'll not be able to arnie any money on their way out of our day. 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 on the streets of. the normal. on the c.d.'s. and. he studies. using a basic he shows us. the problems. from noise and that. is 45 to 55 decibels. as are making the noise never just stop and this is not a very busy road in delhi this would be a normal road and. busy intersection so this is this level to be at all $9095.00.

when the noise level rises by. the strain on the ears increase is significant. this is. a big problem in india especially in metropolitan city big cities you know every year center. on noise pollution in metro metro cities the latest report was in 27. each and every metro city. and all the stations were not. noisy. but there during the daytime or during the nighttime in. the lead. among the few countries with extensive in place. nor is it regarded as an air pollutant.

40 years ago. with. the 1st issue is. this level is really really poor compared to air quality and water pollution. is very limited. given to police you know i like water pollution but enforcement is. pollution of bullets doesn't have you know enough knowledge on this. technique. 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. the.

problems associated with noise are not. humans. and scientists. for ya. it also adversely affects the ecology of the city. birds on local aviation and songs so they have strong songs and. we kick to make them to bring meat protect them from the pretty into and therefore to. sound of a particular pitch it makes all these different. i personally seen that how birds have acquired the out of form of historical white whether they've been overtaken on the road noir nor do they know construction 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 in many many forward. noise poses a threat to the wildlife the campers and the ability to communicate interferes with their ability to detect the difference and also to look off. 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 be impacting different. 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 phenomena for example when you would go well this could take like there's a good budget that so that you have this buzzing you know you have got

a couple of 5 and then the getting comes back to normal that is called at the end but if it's a short shift like 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 i'm one of them that's called a moment and think choice shift when that happens you hear it becomes it was severely damaged and it is looked anything and there is no medicine that can get your hearing back. or study just part of the board getting in the ring in the words loud to cities leads to hearing loss equivalent to a person 10 to 20 years. other studies have also linked noise pollution stress depression and cardiovascular problems but the problem. on this focused. conscious efforts on the. noise about 2 years could be one solution there is a growing market in india for soundproofing 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 1st of all making showed that vehicles are meeting the standards in fact people have to make sure that they can. get in is to get the noise levels are really high you would have to start putting noise values to heated presidential and other critical areas so i think it 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 it was noisy. and one mental measures can help scientists for ya. noise can be reduced with grease and shrubs the to could afford the more efficiently it can serve as a sound buffer and figure out noise what is going to be built and wise there is very interesting. and way to getting air pollution what are 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 it did have plastic and therefore impact. to the birds any most anybody but the human being. people like norse and paul 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 just. delhi 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 commute is 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 clawing 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. is to rejigger partly mine as one of the millions of such commuters she lives in the lock sea district of northern bank at 7 am she begins her journey and eats her breakfast at the wheel. it's a pattern repeated by. 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. 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 my ice of water in. a 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 need to 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 gas. emissions 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. only when 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 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 of a journey is are made on the sky train 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. before. many on this year. like elsewhere many people in bangkok have seen their income take a hit and the current pandemic so the idea of introduce. 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 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 events thanks to artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in 2014 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 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 if advertising signs and building facades weren't eliminated all night 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 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 again 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 hadn'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 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 commutes 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 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 it 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 of course not a good thing and does of biodiversity you actually reducing biodiversity that are not don't species are sensitive to the blue range of light as they have evolved to

use the moon to navigate and bright in the blue the more distracting it is to test how species respond to other parts of the spectrum the research shows 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 rant which you actually see here. and it may actually be less intrusive for these not the most species knuckles 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 rage in amsterdam and the city's nocturnal inhabitants are out in all less slender. 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 instability 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 its bouts for reasons of their own. who had 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 because birds eats lotsof sherry 1st verse they actually eat the roots of to fruit trees especially the apple trees and so if the bets in a lot of cooks shaffer's we don't have those terrible grips in the ground eating our roots to treat so. that's what we like best. that's work is natural best decides and are an essential part of how the ecosystem of the orchard functions. this farm even has a bad hood del to make the mammals feel extra welcome. you can see over here.

that the that there are better living in the better trial because the civil courts over you on the move. there excrements have proved. the community around has installed 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 to 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 but we do do with sustainable way.

show obviously energy efficiency. in. the cradle of solutions but also in the direct effect is fighting enough and we have to affect all know although 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 very of the consequences of our action on the environment that's when we can start to take action do a small ping every day to help it turn off the tap while brushing your teeth use of reusable coffee mug carry a plot back on your shopping trip if it already. doing this mall tell us about it

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