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fighting to protect the environment. champion algae can the all round miracle worker help save our planets and scavenging to survive serious children after a decade of room. mm hm. across the globe, around a $160000000.00 children are involved in child labor. this means that about one child in 10 worldwide. has to work and behind it is the desperate poverty of their families. instead of regularly attending school, the children work for many hours a day, often under harsh conditions. the situation is worsening, mainly due to the effects of the corona virus pandemic. but also because of war and conflict, one in 6 children grow up close to a conflict zone. in 2020,

a total of 452000000 of these 2500000 live in syria. and many of them have to support their families by working we had to id lab to find out more rock on can hardly believe his luck. his found an old solem out among the garbage, which he hopes will fit him, a decent price. scavenging through the refuses a particularly difficult challenge for the 11 year old after an air raid 3 years ago, his rightful om had to be amputated. he doesn't expect pity, but all too often he's met with contempt, rather than compassion. yeah, no, i was old. don't like me because i'm so dirty and they're afraid of the corona virus scout. if i have to sneeze every one around me immediately. thanks. i've infected that i do every day, thousands of children descend on the landfills of serious edler breaching their

last resort for the most vulnerable and award tone region that has nothing else left to offer them all day long. they search for everything from shoes and jackets to electrical appliances, and copper wire. anything that might earn them a bit of money. many of these children have become their families breadwinners, which means sifting through rubbish for hours on end. instead of going to school and, and i've never been taught anything, even when i was little, i didn't go to school at a farm. i love so like to do an easier job. i will my hands hurt because i constantly have to break chunks of iron into small pieces, so i have a better chance of selling them in that the camp, the food aid that was handed out ended 2 months ago, almost sin roxanne rummages through the foul smelling garbage every day, searching for anything of value. surrounded by germs and filth, the children often pick up infections. and i like,

i don't like working in the trash room, i'd much rather go to school and learn something alone. but then when i grow up, i could teach others. what could alice could i could become a teacher, had and do something useful admin sally and that is own, but that dream appears impossible. camps like this one outside merit. mr. in are now home to several 100000 syrians who lost their homes in the civil war. roxanne lives here together with his mother, 3 sisters and one brother. they left the village near aleppo, fleeing errands from syrian government fighter jets. their father was captured by president assets army now rockin has to provide for his family, an enormous burden for the young boy that the family owns nothing but a few chickens. every day is

a fight for survival. in freezing temperatures, they mother usa heats water by burning olive branches. then she watches the dirt out of rock hans hair. after a long day at the garbage dump. he let his hair grow to hide the burns on his head . while oz lad did being able to make money, searching on your own is really tough. rare, sometimes people help carry the garbage bag i, including my brothers and sisters with him to play some days. we find something, but on other days, nothing about the lone wagner white man them the civil war has yet to end here and the it live region. the last stronghold of anti assad, opposition and islamist forces. despite a cease fire, there are repeated air strikes and clashes with the syrian army. the infrastructure has been devastated. recent months have seen prices rise

dramatically, including for food. rock on has to pay the equivalent of nearly half a euro for a single flat bread. a whole day toiling away at the landfill, owns him less than a euro, but he keeps trying his luck. his sister vizier sometimes accompanies him. it's a long walk, especially for young children. you know, linda, it's about 5 kilometers. by the time i get there hair, i'm always completely exhausted car and my legs hurt. jan if i see of alice. yes. now the hard work really begins and drunken also has to compete with the other children, forced to go scavenging at the landfill. he often loses out to other kids who are

bigger and stronger than him. hello, what dana, if i don't find anything here, i'll go. but then i have to go to other landfills. my become only, but then i get chased away by the older boys are little wanted and new. i live at the end of their day, the children take them mika finds to his crafty, lend me the landfill. it's a brutal business in which only a few and more than a petals unless they find things that we then buy like a plastic iron metal, so they can aren't decent money, but a lot of displaced people currently live off this. i should be wrong. but the children pay a high price, plagued by skin and intestinal diseases robbed of their childhood and deprived of an education and a future. but for rock'n and his sister felicia, there is no other choice. 02 children, 2 companies,

one giant problem and manila in on at the see a bit. you lou louis miley lazy leo vickers delayed food. exactly. how will climate change affect us and our children learn more at d, w dot com slash water? oh, huge algae blooms can look a little, don't sing, and yet algae, or possibly the most unsung heroes on our planet. food fertilizes plastic algy can do its whole the aquatic organisms even suck c o 2 out of the atmosphere and reduce the methane in cow fox. and now they might even save all planets. it all started long, long ago. the earth was a hot soup, full of toxic chemicals. no animals, no plants,

blue green algae also called say i bacteria changed all that son of assyria. essentially one of the most current in groups of organisms, they are, they really fascinated this is mar, it's called a microbiologist who studies this particular type of algy. the fact that we are nowadays living in a world which has like oxygen in the atmosphere is mostly due to the so called great oxygenation event. which as when about couple 1000000000 years ago, sounded bacteria and started producing oxygen and thereby created the world we live in today. santa bacteriology are what are called micro algy very small. macro algae, on the other hand, is what washes up on the beach and what many called seaweed id are actually leg plans in the ocean. and so they do the same process as plants or land which is photosynthesis. so they take up c o 2 and they converted using sunlight. this is

mark fernandez, mendez, she's a marine ecologist who studies how algae capture carbon and impact the whole marine food chain. when an energy use this app, that carbon from the ocean, then the ocean immediately absorbs carbon from the atmosphere. because it's in constant that kilograms, have you remove something? it needs to get a pro rated with the atmosphere again. ocean algy absorb one quarter to a 3rd of global c o 2 emissions every year. but all algy do this even if they aren't in the ocean. so no matter what it's used for growing algae capture c o 2. and humans have been using algy for thousands of years. indigenous peoples from the americas to east asia or the original seaweed farmers. seaweed was even mentioned in the oldest known japanese poetry from ireland, a type called irish moss is used world wide as the food additive carabiner algae also helped people there survive the great famine of the 1840s. today, algae aquaculture is most well developed in asia where it makes up

a large part of the cuisine. also be used in tooth paste, cosmetics, and medication. going the algae for these products, capture c o 2. but greenhouse gas production is not the main aim beth about to change because using algy as animal feed fertilizer and by a plastic also diverts emissions from polluting industries, it impact is effectively doubled. let's talk about plastic. some algy naturally contain and produce a bio plastic called p h b. it can replace polypropylene. the 2nd most widely used traditional plastic mars caught and other researchers modified blue green micro algy or santa bacteria to produce more of it. using some metabolic engineering techniques, we were able to increase this amount from 10 percent more than 80 percent. so we're really treated almost like 2 bio plastic victoria, which consist of most seattle fireplaces, ph be disintegrates under normal household compost conditions and releases no

pollutants into the environment. unlike other bio plastics. and we already have the infrastructure to produce it. you could essentially or used existing technology for producing different on the material, not just was food consumption like sharlena, but also for the production of biotech. for example, hulu. aquaculture technology can also be used to grow macro algae. one type has a truly amazing property. when it's paragraphs, his taxi format is added to animal feed. it reduces methane from livestock by up to 82 percent. methane is produced in the stomach of livestock during digestion, which the animals then release compounds. in this c, we'd appear to stop the gas from forming in the 1st place. startups ambrosia is in the media spotlight for producing algae feed for livestock. but questions remain as to scale ability partly because this algae needs to be farmed. in some cases, however, the algae is already there,

like sarcasm. a perfect example of too much of a good thing. it's home is this our gas t o c, which accounts for 7 percent of the c o 2 absorbed by all the oceans. but due to global warming and pollution sarcasm is growing out of control. huge amounts are washing up yearly in the caribbean and gulf of mexico. in 2018, the bloom weighed over 20000000 tons. normally the algae would disintegrate, but now it's washing up on shore. besides smelling horrendous, it contaminates the water, killing off animals and destroying coral. add this quantity. these match of sarcasm are basically dense stars. jorge vega matters works at c combination or a company that focuses on using sarcasm. blooms to make climate friendly products. one promising use is fertilizer, something that dates back to the roman empire. now it's being synthesized into extracts for large scale use. we're able to turn it in 2 different components that

are applied a full yearly. so, you know, on the plant itself as a spray, that can be of life directly into the land. either in liquid form or also in little rock, nutrients in the fertilizer in which the soil and induce processes in the plant to protect against pathogens. the result is larger yields and plants more resistant to stress and disease. but the most direct way to use algae is also the simplest, pure c o 2 sequestration. algy naturally falls to the ocean floor when it dies. there it stores it's captured. c o 2. we can speed up this process, we want to enhance the amount of carbon that is actually sequestered by this sag awesome. in this example, then we would actively need to, you know, bailey, it compress it, an actively sinking. this means adding weights or using a pump to send it to the bottom of the ocean. a recent study found that global

agriculture emissions could be offset by using to percent of the ocean to farm and sink seaweed. so why haven't we been doing this already? the most widely formed macro algy celt only grows attached to something some celt farms are making headlines for sinking algae, but on a large scale it would require a lot of infrastructure. that's where sarcasm comes in. if you have a micro gene that can grow everywhere floating in the ocean, like find a blanked and best, but can sequestered that carbon with a way higher efficiency than fight a plant. and they have a winner. and that's, i guess, in the technology to collect our gas. some is already in use in affected areas like mexico and from a seaweed. start up in the u. k to the mexican government. people are working on making it more efficient. this is not just something that people like me, you know, biology should be looking at. this is something that the whole society should be looking. the missing piece is funding. so with a growing attention on algae farming as a climate solution,

incentive to support c o 2 capture need to be ramped up as well. it's time to expect more than just see wheat snack. with an estimated 21000000 residents, lagos is the most populated metropolitan area in all of africa, and more people means more consumption. according to the cities, waste management authorities more than $10000.00 tons of refuse to produced here each day, bombing, both people and the planets less than half is collected. i'm just 13 percent recycled. but where there's a will, there's a way, ah, without the environment. we and non existent in my didn't walk into animal the life . there's no way concent after the environment from the foil underneath your feet to the air you breathe. so the sounds you hear nature ease a very,

very huge part of our existence or which we shouldn't leave in this hum one with nature, we should understand our nature only to be preserved to thou. we come preserved as humans a change make her boot camp in lagos, nigeria, ah 20 year old environmental activist, or the worst shame boy, joe founded and indio for training. the next generation of movers and shakers. her students here explore ways to make saving the environment creative and fun, such as separating waste in pairs with their legs tied to one another. at the end of the workshop, the best project is decided on the n g o u recycle supports the winning idea. why does n g o has reached over 6000 young people in 11 african countries around new

way to up so cool. refer cool how? cuz we're about it and how to be in leader amongst my peers. i want to continue actually educating my peers and people younger than me about the impact we have on the environment. be good impacts and in the, by the impact of begun. also have on the environment. i also want to teach them how to be leaders and be changing because amongst their peers and the people around them. ah, it's all this global climate crisis as always that a young child is, is standing in front of a boss, dies kwame street. i had a how does lasha in the middle? and i and then the way really didn't have altered students from the bright achievers. school have spent several days connecting and cleaning plastic bottles with a touch of paint. they transformed into st. decorations for their neighborhood. when you look audio outside of lucid, our yard and dirt, which contains

a lot of plastic quotes and received out 3 con, mutual bees blasting or to me. and what we now come to good as a team. that's what can be useful. last year the young people collected over 12000 bottles. as part of similar projects there do what is called the psych located near the process of home. what's in waste into something of value in this process? no. does. it is not like recycling because we have to break it down through all my ceiling. is that how much you as a good on the website when you add a and that's dr. clear on the lake, probably an hour to walk in one man or something. i basically is there a says, a good please. in the sprawling city of lagos has a special waste management authority. all the was shame moto is hoping to get support from the department, which is just a quiet 100 new garbage trucks. the local government is also investing money and local recycling incentive programs. currently hundreds of recycling containers are

still waiting to be installed around lagos. on the were shame moiety wants to ask the waste management director why the city is still choking in garbage. 15 years ago, these plastic they do their wires, is there a lot of walls where using glass ball to where you drink, and they will tell you more tool back to the bottling company to refill with the population challenge and groups. it is ministry for to find easier and quicker we to, to get all these all the, our products was so eve, daisy, we, we come to ring. the usage is always going to be better than the 2nd side of the young activists, unexpectedly, fines and ally in the managing director. the to quickly agree to plan

a joint conference for high school and university students when the next event again, next month. it's march 18th, so we can prompt, i think i'm happy, let's do that. let's do it. and there's plenty of work to do before that. me and then do as contingent has so many laws. what it's just written, most of in the i will put into practice, we need to make laws and an effects laws implement laws. and for those laws concerning preserving the environment for is an issue like climate change and glass flowing oil, spillage. that's toby impact in the region. the laws that will put that can just continue to will guarantee devon being followed because people are choosing a company that doesn't profit or plot probably to the planet profit of my life.

when on a russia, my job isn't busy saving the planet. she studies law at the university of lagos. here to her focus is environmental protection. but sometimes even the most dedicated climate hero need to break spending time with frames as well come reward after all the hard work and still tired of sitting back and watching the plan, the planet into the very, very horrible states. right? we don't have much time. we need to take action as soon as possible to preserve what we love and issues like he's actually trying to do things. ah, no one is too young to make it to friends. you probably had that before. and is the fac, don't ever look down or your souls don't ever look down your circumstances, your background, your family, like where you came from,

you have so much potential. this week's global teen comes from namibia. i have a global t ah hi, i want to recover says from says pontine m a grade level late a little help combine school as well. there is a mountaineer area. as you can see, the, a lot of mountains here. it's really at that i area we've a lot of wild animals. if you just go to the side of the one, if we will, you will find a lot of while it was such as the elephant, the spring box, and possibly a loan. because the was the lay of the close by year near to are hostile have 6 simply,

2 brothers in forces does a my mom is a cleaner. she walks at their regional office and my dad is a 12th grade early to like going to school our, our mostly our teachers normally tell as education is the key to success is really important thing. we thought education is nothing we can do. it's the only solution for you. mostly i'm afraid of leaks. at least dislike them just the source, the i really think it's lake. the way the more live confirming and really afraid of snakes. there was one a big, huge shoot. you had to sneak, which we saw ye busy pick one and then in bite, a lady that was being gay in the she died

live 3 there and normally listen to music or played a daily injury in my diary to fully to feel relaxed and fill in a comfortable space in ok and also watch movies. um mm ah, my hopes are like our calendar in the media to view developed country lead elecom really knowing the or where suffering is you might also know we are currently in economic raises. it has been happening for a while and then they covered it, hit us. and it's pretty good. ah, outstanding education to be a teacher. it was, i'm dallas education as their well, i'll go back again and go steadily. law to be a lawyer. and then a game, a pilot,

i really wanna travel after being a travel. oh, and then settle down old list. i'll retire in then with the money a girl that i was that of a coffee oil restaurant. and that's all from us at global 3000. this week, and thanks for joining us. and don't forget to write with your feedback. we're at global 3000 at d, w dot com. and we are on facebook to the w global ideas. see you soon take care. ah, with

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