tv Extreme Climate Events Deutsche Welle May 30, 2022 11:15am-12:01pm CEST
11:15 am
liberal chief executive billy hogan sat, the treatment of his tops bands was unacceptable and demanded a transparent investigation. liverpool lost the fun to real madrid, one watching the w. c. as a reminder of the top story we are following for you, your friends, president vladimir zalinski has made his 1st visits of troops on the eastern front line. meanwhile, the of cranes says russian troops of entered the key city of seattle to neds as they pushed to take all of the east and don voss reached that's it from me and the new steam. thanks for which in a south a mother is going to spend the rest of her life behind bars for mercury, berkeley garden. i believe when i was part of psychosis is an awful illness.
11:16 am
mothers nightmare stores, july 4th on d w. the memories are still vivid on may 29th, 2016 disaster struck the village of pounds. bah and south western germany. oh, the cut us off herself. i literally watched the flash away from the debris, heading towards me, afloat and it made a noise as well. actually, because i couldn't figure out what it was exactly. then i realize how to help the whole house was shaking. policy post mayor hung cash film, the catastrophe unfolding in front of him to do it once in. it's in st. completely insane. before you know, the emerging services can't do anything. this is not impossible right now with out
11:17 am
of the question. my god save pounds, bottle life financial kill. i was in shock. i couldn't even begin to process what i was saying. missed i know. although no lives were lost, the flood left the village, devastated with its voice. horrible. i'm speechless off bilbo. people have never seen anything like it. a few years later, germany suffered the effect of a different kind of extreme weather. in 20182019 temperatures rose above 40 degrees celsius in the summer with no rain for months on end rivers dried up. a disaster for the local environment and its inhabitants yachting last year. there was no rainfall here in the region for more than 70 day, hine. and then in summer 2021. the i valley in western germany was
11:18 am
hit by flash flooding. flood says you looked at and all of a sudden we were confronted with issues that we'd always thought only affected somewhere else in the world. in places like bangladesh or dramatic, whether fluctuations have become commonplace. what does the future hold and what do we need to do? to cope with climate change. ah ah . we begin our research in vintage park in the home secretion. an idyllic spot at the foot of the storm via forest. on june 5th 20215 weeks before the flooding in the eye valley. a summer storm wreaked havoc here. the picturesque
11:19 am
village was overwhelmed, and yoga bowman's home was among the many destroyed. he and his wife, marianna, will never forget that day. a traumatic experience that's edged in their memory. the basement was completely flooded. the couple had only just finished renovating their home and now had to start all over again from scratch. they own a heating installation business, so at least they could do a lot of the work themselves at net rouelis. on the 3rd, mr. murphy up for of we just got everything finished in here with 5 or 6 years ago were fitted the house out with external thermal insulation for energy efficiency and switched from fossil fuels to an air to water heat pump. inside. yes,
11:20 am
we've done the garden too, and we're actually looking forward to concentrating on other things suddenly of august motor that me good on it. i love that and it was it wasn't to be after hours of torrential rain fall over the local forest hills. the village was hit by a deluge. i'm a trick to fill in those because i can't get the images out of my hand. is i often look at the photos we talk home. it really got to me soft. ah, marian bowman still can't believe what happened. the rhine and the most often burst their banks, but villages that are nowhere near major rivers shouldn't be at risk of flooding. local simply weren't prepared. the bowman still haven't gotten over the experience . bush answered, i am to host and i was terrified that the front door would break and the water would rush in from upstairs, we could see the pressure building. we could see the door starting to give way. market was guns,
11:21 am
were the water was up to here. dears was the gun. so anti yard was under water here oliver was watched on winter book is situated in a valley in the hunts like mountains. the village is nestled in the stone via forest, the source of the watcher that caused such damage. forest landscapes. how fast water storage capacity soaking up heavy rainfall like a sponge. but in recent years, this has no longer been happening as efficiently as it used to van had pound batter is in charge of the local forestry service. he and his colleague michael fake are going to show us what the problem with the
11:22 am
flooding invent up or can other religious down in the valley is linked to the state of the forest. it's increasingly try here where they're digging. even the beach trees are showing signs of drought damage and beaches aren't usually very sensitive. it actually rained a lot in the summer of 2021. but how much rain did the ground actually absorb? it soon transpires not much at all. yes, you can see its own dry well it has trout to become a long term problem. while she shifted the hut and he and eric yawn in let's last year there was no rainfall here in the region for more than 70 days in the garage. can there cost alone area? it didn't rain for over a $100.00 days?
11:23 am
yes, the by the 1st of august 2021. there was still a deficit of over 250 liters per square meter meter. hard to imagine we're given the years overall weather. but it goes to show how severe the lack of rainfall has been in the last 3 years. gosh, last if it's he to in. and it's been yarn in ellipse and that i on ninety's vaughn as hard that explains there needs to be 2 months, a steady rainfall day and night to make up for the drought of recent years. he also says that the forest needs to be managed differently in the past water used to be trained from the forest these days he and his team are laying pipes and taking trenches in his own fight in order to replenish the watershed and retained the water that collects on the logging roads the aim is to ensure it seeps into the ground across the forest,
11:24 am
instead of flying into the valley and causing the waterways there to post their bank. yamazik if he'd a better all he ems own vote back loy for de la. there are lots of streams here in the soon vase. i'd pull the elbow and the griffin bert, and it was striking how quickly their water level was rose in just a short space of time here in the soon vault just when it rained a massive amount of water collected in a concentrated area. jackwoods. it was pretty frightening. laugh in his own boat. wonder good positives as far was the song being seemed when the storm head, the forest couldn't absorb the torrential rain. the logging, roads were crippled and had to be rebuilt. now deeper trenches and larger pipes have been put in place to reroute heavy rainfalls to points in the forest where it can happen to the ground. yet i shall damage dust be these up, flush bits, inflation could. what that does is avert excessive runaway and allow groundwater to
11:25 am
replenish lungs. i'm on the water is distributed slowly and steadily across the forest floor. i where it's absorbed, who causes in terms of the local ecosystem. it means there's enough water to sustain the forest as a natural resource, again, leaving squalid head between for as, as lean from florida to fulfill it than had found better planning to upgrade the whole forest. this way, it's a small but significant way of helping to reduce the effects of extreme weather. the next up on our research trip is in northern germany. every year hamburrow coast, the extreme weather congress. it brings together weather and climate researchers as well as environmental activists. the event aims to reach as many people as possible in the process, raising awareness of climate change and the need to act an urgent priority. not
11:26 am
only for metrology, spend priyanka, but also politicians and the likes of mo, she play chief, one of germany's leading climate researchers. the 2021 congress was overshadowed by the events in the us valley. can. if we need chain mission, the choice isn't between more or less climate protection, but between proper radical, sustainable climate protection and climate disaster. that's where we're at. dam friday for future. there's fridays for future, i think. and in 2019, there was more discussion of the climate in the environment than there's ever been before. but in 2019 that same year before the pandemic hair toys, we also took more cruises and more flights than ever before. that there's a huge cognitive dissonance going on with and if we really want to get anywhere, then we need to have the courage to change. tom. these are the gets in the expos, attending the event. first,
11:27 am
drought and flooding will become increasingly common of the enzyme the in these are talking files, and we with that yet. so i told mazda annoyance, in, on the one hand, there are protracted dry spells, as we saw in 2018, 2019, and 2021. and these weren't balanced out, and so there's always been the occasional dry year, but the 3 in a row is conspicuous. vilegas well done. and on the other hand, just geek, we can expect to see increasingly frequent storms and heavy rainfall. i'm very slow moving storms and flash flooding. in general, the weather is becoming more extreme, but that's the bottom line. i used to help while we were at the congress, we heard about an ambitious research project looking at extreme weather in the sway be in mountains 10 german research institutes are pulling their resources including cloud and precipitation radars and lasers in order to explore the complex processes that occur in the atmosphere,
11:28 am
basic scientific research that allows them to better protect extreme weather events and their consequences. these scientists are waiting for stormy weather. this way be an alps are germany's main storm hotspot and storms are a key aspect of extreme weather. professor americans is emmy cher ologist with no losses. tramos or we're going to blow up a balloon. so we'll be ready if his dorm starts to breathe in for a moment. we've already set up the probes. so now we're going to load the balloons in the car. 6 or 7 of them, 6 and then we'll drive right into the store. the balloons are filled with helium, they'll carry small probes into the clouds and will enable the scientists to observe . hale formation occurring during the storm. hill is a typical feature of extreme weather. the team are excited,
11:29 am
the clouds are gathering after hours of waiting, they now need to act fast. before they head into the storm. me here, quince visits, the lab to check the clouds activity. which direction are they drifting in and is the upwind or convection strong enough? to carry the probes into the storm clouds. with i'd like to watch like you saw doctor does when he convection and shows a powerful lift off. when the rain forms it falls more or less vertical to the point where the up wind is. basically it suppresses the up wednesday so and that means that the standard lifetime of a single cell is on average, 30 minutes to an hour. it destroys itself as it was, he says, cup with dental. that makes it all the more important to release the balloons in
11:30 am
the right place at the right time. outside the storm cell is getting stronger. it's time for the scientists to launch their balloons. right here. positioned inside cuts the propes measure temperature and air pressure, as the balloons drift upwards through the storm. precisely where hailstorm are forming inside the clouds. mckerick once can follow the action in real time signal . we've got a signal. are we going to you 3 balloons, because the rains got worse and we hope they'll take off yet. i've got a signal off. we go one lot on stop failed
11:31 am
awfully fashion. the probes are inside the clouds taking the pulse of the storm as it were. yesterday was i thought, my tie father. fortunately, we're not in the middle of the storm south. there are 5 centimeter hailstones coming down and they made a net give our cars are good bashing on the top with give from here me here concent his team can collect a wealth of useful data that will help predict extreme weather events. we're planning to visit him in his lab and cars who are in a few weeks time back inventor book. the bowman's are still dealing with the flood damage. it's the weekend, but instead of putting their feet up, they're hard at work trying to make their home livable again. juergen bowman is haunted by memories of last july, when a gaping hole suddenly appeared in his yard and thought to form alcohol or wild. if there was a power can't, because all the sockets were under water lorne on,
11:32 am
it was like being on a house boat or as well as of miles or so what exactly happened as i rather than i live by. i was back of over the well this here is an old stream tunnel and there was so much pressure from underneath that he got pushed up with a self supporting structure. and when he got pushed up, it, one stone breaks off and the structure collapses. first girl, a film shot on his mobile phone shows the thing called that resulted right in front of his house. i 1st law got employees. i've worked with a hole in the garden, got bigger on there now, solid wood garden bench, got pulled into the current, got turned in circles, water and was washed away by them. that was the point when i said to my husband, roger, okay, now i'm frightened. my father, rakish august through olive in m offers one. it all disappeared into the hole of best rule of arnold. therefore, the chairs are terra cotta. ornaments of it all got washed away. what happened here
11:33 am
was nothing in comparison to the disaster in the our valley actually ramrod there was some damage. it's bad, it's a problem, but at least no one was hurt from clerk. gang lynch withdrawn from the r valley floods in july 2021 claimed 100. 33 lives with 700 people left injured and 42000 others also affected. they were among the worst bloods and german history in the space of just a few hours. it rained as much as it usually does. in months. the german meteorological service called it unprecedented. insurance company said it was the most expensive weather related incident in 50 years. was damages totaling an estimated 10000000000 euros.
11:34 am
just climate change means that such events are likely to become more frequent. we meet up with geographers trauma hogan camp and theresa schneider and the village of my shots and the, our valley. they're trying to establish the precise water levels that occur during the flooding. not easy, given that many of the water gauges along the river got swept away. experts rely on them to analyze and predict flood events. just in the christ warden. what else presidio highest warden had a little from his head which pianist, one can't do it with water levels on the outflow far exceeded any flooding that happened since records began fivefold human. and you know, we haven't seen water levels like that in recent history and, but if you look at the history of the, our valley india, then you can see that in fact, these extreme events did occur. they were very rare,
11:35 am
but not on known, overcome in 18 o 4, there was flooding in the our valley that caused similar damage. does obviously on a smaller scale, because at that point in the valley was less built up top that was tied on most of missile in about bon here in my shows, the storms swept away a number of houses and destroyed the local train line complete with most bridges, teresa tidal and thomas logan can from the university of bon, are using a theater light surveying tool to measure maximum flood heights across the valley. it helps them identify precise watcher levels at precise geographical location. with the brown color of this aside shows just how far the washer road trauma sudden camp has been researching the history of floods in the our valley. for many years. this time, the watcher here with 10 meters higher than its normal level. the script
11:36 am
a whole for soc is equal carbon, the flattened, they can find the fisa falling in deutschland, on their off blood risk matters for all of germany's river harbor. but clearly they've not been adequate latin vs and feel on the basis of these matters. there are plenty of places where you can reasonably decide to put up new buildings. who are these maps don't include historical flow, doesn't help us on the water level record and that are available. they fact just 50 or 60 years automotive from that's too short, a time frame to reflect extreme. then it was ice, extreme agnes up to bill. please maps has since been updated and now include historical data to but what role to climate change play in the i valley disaster was that the ultimate cause in the pump there, i would argue that this is gale of the flood is not necessarily climate change
11:37 am
related it gets a lot in terms of the frequency or if it's in other words, how often such events occur is from vog. you could argue with changing weather conditions, but mean the floods now occurring more frequently. and that's a consequence of climate changes. climate change increases the likelihood of such events occurring more frequently as demonstrated by a recent study conducted with the participation of the german meteorological service. yet the question remains. why is why they're becoming more extreme? we meet spend prayer at the weather center of germany's main public broadcaster some 35 forecasts are produced for weather bulletins here every day of our music to will clear that job includes analyzing maps and figures not only the t v weatherman has observed that a number of weather phenomena have become increasingly common from the focus until here, with most of it. this is if the noise here is at 50, not went on. oh,
11:38 am
okay. are, you know, here got tells us about the standing ways phenomenon, high pressure and low pressure. france that don't actually move. it explains the devastating storms and the r valley does dawn via an pounds, but it's highly uncommon for high and low pressure. france to be stationary. but it's become a feature of current weather patterns. and if it was seed foot items that move, distribute rain across a wide area, but if they don't move, the impact is concentrated in one place. so there's extremely heavy rainfall. conflict. if the high pressure front doesn't move than we have the high temperatures and drought, we saw in 2003 or 2018 implement. at the moment we're seeing more frequent standing waves and also more frequent stationary highs and love was to ease of use. so that's a hypothesis that's being investigated right now in law in scientific times, it's not straightforward. the natural world is always complex,
11:39 am
though i am far according to political climate change, as exacerbating the frequency of standing waves of air meteorologist and storms researcher mckerick once agrees where meeting him at his research institute. ah, he set up a center dedicated to analyzing natural disasters. he and his team evaluate extreme weather events around the world. they were among the 1st to compile an overview of the scale of the i valley disaster and the damage it cost me here. cons shows us a map of the area based on satellite data and aerial images. he believes society needs to adjust to the prospect are frequent, extreme weather events. both hum in deutschland,
11:40 am
i extreme weather events occur in germany every year or so. there are floods and hail storms, winter storms, and when we live with them and we have to live with them, isn't i'm it live. oh. and we have to be aware that they happen and know how to respond this, but we tend to ignore it as is typical in our society and honest, we ignore things we don't like and, and, but that can be highly distracted for and then these disasters happened when fyodor services are, you know, it doesn't, const anna's colleagues closely monitor the course and the consequences of these disasters. the aim is to figure out what we can learn from them. and in the meantime, to remain vigilant. then with our fall in this, i can as i was there via for little ones learning. ideally these are events that can and should teach us lessons for the future is justified when floods occur. it's a mistake to say, okay, there's been a flood,
11:41 am
it won't happen again that soon it's go, that's rebuild everything exactly the way it was here in. that's what's happening in the, our valley is what we know now that places that were flooded are highly vulnerable . c, as in, as in they were fuel, don't let him just as ultra vigorous like ordinance in the the all centerpiece in this cons i and started to sticks. don't tell us anything. then i guess another flood could happen next year, or it could happen in 200 years time. i saw sancho. but what we do know is that if such an extreme weather event happens, again, casino, then certain spotters, such as in short, on the our river will most certainly be flooded again. so i do want to rent and then consider roughly at me heck, once. and his team have also analyzed the flash flooding and bounce back in 2016. at the time it was the most severe flooding seen in germany for decades. again, the cause was extremely heavy rainfall concentrated in one area. within 30
11:42 am
minutes, the village was torn apart. miraculously no one died that many were left homeless. it also resulted in an unusually vast volume of flotsam and other debris. this point, it's terrible as if you're from speechless because i've never seen anything like it . the reconstruction work still isn't finished. and for locals, the emotional scars have yet to heal may have hung harsh house steer the village through its darkest hour. the road to recovery has been strewn with obstacles and set back harsh has even encountered hostility. it's been a difficult few years. he has written a book about what happened and travels the country, giving talks on the environmental threats, facing villages like pounce back featuring images such as these
11:43 am
is a good look resume. so to the images, as so affecting the inevitably moved people deeply image and i go, i know i thought, isabel, you couldn't reach them the same way with words. makalya images are extremely powerful when the mot i was on the cortisol, we are still dealing with the consequences that the reconstruction work is ongoing job 5 years later than that. we can't do everything at once and it'll take a few more years before we dance. it's all and see that it's a long term process to go out. we have to think in terms of decades in recognition, has come out a little. we have to think about how to contain flooding her, how to treat the ground, what to do to protect the places at higher altitude,
11:44 am
where there's heavy rainfall to her mom or a sparkling stock from the villages mean square was completely rebuilt. the mayor wants to show us other reconstruction work such as the new reinforced walls along the village stream. the reconstruction work has cost the village approximately 55000000 euros to date. outside the village, there are now massive debris traps along the narrow slope for punk hash, this is the key element in the protection plan. the huge structure is designed to trap avalanches of debris pouring downstream. right all the thong whose old folk took off in the middle of mom. i'm recent to know about 50 meters upstream. there's another huge debris trap. so no progress. what we have to
11:45 am
do was was, and it's a long term project to start is try to hold back the water at the source is where the heavy rainfall occurs. so it could be a retention reservoir like which is problematic up there. and it will be better if the water could seep into the ground like one storms more to me. the best solution would be to stop farming practices and plant more trees and to improve seepage potential wider. the size of a business is all smoothly thought. the thought the land around pound spot is extensively farmed field boundaries were removed. they could have helped contain watcher and there are fields and fields of corn. another detrimental factor, because the crop tries out the soil as a and for talk that are born come even thus understood of name living arid soil can't absorb water and that results in localized flooding. i like to compare it to
11:46 am
baking cake, dove this, but imagine taking some flower and pouring milk on his brow. the flour is the dry ground with the milk for heavy rain, as it won't you will be laughed with. is flower on the bottom and milk just floating on top, but once you start needing and the bottom, in this case, the flower has been moistened with a little bit of the milk. you can add more milk and it'll soak in better sides and aspect. we'd like to investigate further at the university of trey or researchers are finding out how drought changes. soil. an experiment is underway in the soil science department. the samples being examined to see how well they absorb water. they're born again from in a long shot. they were like a tithe of butter soil acts like a sponge in the landscape, storing water over a long period of time, and then gradually releasing it to plant 3 to its surroundings,
11:47 am
to lakes and rivers. extreme and extreme weather brought about by climate change has consequences long enough dry soil cones absorb water at the same rate. instead, water just runs off. it was leading to flooding and bodies of water and also to soil erosion of wouldn't off harden as it was on the soil. scientists want to demonstrate how long it takes the drop of water to seep into various toil samples. first they add a drop of blue colored water to completely dry soil. it takes a while for the trap of blue water to be absorbed. the soil is so try, it's become impermeable. i've got 2 more samples. what have you found out so far? come out of the soil samples are very different. the dryness definitely plays
11:48 am
a big role. that once good soil containing homelessness part, it takes days to moist in again a cross check clearly shows that so that isn't completely tried out. can still soak up watcher. but if you're a student, waltney sanders, lilian owens garcia, nausea yon, when i was a student in the eighty's and ninety's, we didn't see this kind of dry soap soil. it was unimaginable in it. but that's what we're dealing with now. holmes. the environmental research sense is drop monitor ever shows the soil effects of up to 1.8 meters has dried out massively on and the rain for we are experiencing in 2021 is just about managing to replenish the top. so the water supply it needs to be done,
11:49 am
but the sub soil is still parched by the drought of the last 3 years. i got one in one of the cotton i believe, and i are try subsoil and flooding. not as contradictory as it sounds, according to the experts. the drought 2018 resulted in reduced harvests and millions of years worth of losses in germany's agricultural sector. rivers dried up, such as the ties them near fryeburg, which close from the black forest industry struggled with a shortage of raw materials and even gas was in short supply. the media was full of doomsday scenarios. yet man, and of man as it goes on, feel, in my opinion, it's a mistake to focus on all the doom and gloom. when the media goes on about the apocalypse and his crisis and that crisis, he agrees that we end up so overwhelmed that we lose all our courage and think there's no point trying to do anything about it. what, when,
11:50 am
in fact there are so many groundbreaking projects is skipped. so feel like tom projected groundbreaking projects that proved were not parallel against extreme weather, such as the live spec, organic farm on the done us back color range. and highland fights founded by young people. but it relies on water and that's in short supply up here. jeanine harbor works to ensure the soil as as permeable as possible, so long as it can still absorb watcher akin with and extreme rainfall fluctuations . hudson hudson campus, you know, that yawn all star auto plaza. in 2014, there was severe flooding hair in the region that caused 1000000 as worth of damage for the marshal back stream overflow. it could be the most of the areas around it all agricultural fields that are compacted and where the water can't see pin easily, and the soil is homeless deficient and being on flooding sweeps away. the entire
11:51 am
top soil and entire villages are hit by mudslide alpha buffington. the young organic farmers are planning to revitalize their land using a special technique. first, they analyzed local rainfall patterns. up in the blue line on the chart show in which direction the rainfall is likely to flow. jeanine harbor and her colleague have drawn red lines where they plan to dig ditches that will help distribute the watcher across the farmland. that this technique is called key line water management of as you can, but they're concerned about the amount of red in their chart which indicates just how dry the region is. ah, they're keen to show us how effective their strategy is against why they're extremes. first they used to how to take their ditches. before switching 10
11:52 am
excavator they want to test how the key line water system works. they take their trenches with a slight gradient 1.5 percent to prevent large volumes of water from flowing too fast. i have some unexplained meant on average z, and we're conducting an experiment to illustrate how the water that a masses during heavy rainfall aventis can be distributed over the area and conceit incident ditches laid according to the queue line system missed instead of flowing down the slope guaranteed and causing flooding in the valleys and calmed on the to zang funding for an interval called water from the top, a graphical depression where a collections could be diverted to the mouth. so where the ground is dr. office, google just doesn't do talking. spin owned jeanine harbor uses the water tank
11:53 am
and a hose to simulate heavy rainfall. come to a mark many flood. obviously rain is less localized, but the experiment shows that the dish absorbs the artificial downpour as planned for the water, then flows along the key line towards the elevation. mm it looks simple, but it's an intelligent way for farming to adjust to the challenges of climate change. but heavy rainfall and drought don't just adversely affect rural regions, but urban areas to villages, towns and cities also. nita just says weather experts fan trigger the problem is not really out just stuck on implants if ma seaford tried and wished
11:54 am
his own garbage for. ziegler problem, of course, is that it is and surrounding areas are very different because cities are built out at the close. nobody show that heat waves in the likes of cologne at frankfort line, make them 9 degrees hotter than surrounding areas of cities such as cosgra are also likely to see a significant increase in temperature too. and this poses an additional problem. damn, it effectively makes the city a completely different climate zone. so we need to think about how we can make cities greener and less dry ella, with more greenery, more water cooling by evaporation to curve extreme hate. these extreme hits of ugly to devon, urban planners and cars for are already looking at ways the city can tackle climate change. one of their 1st projects is the redesign of the plaza site, the main station it's set to become much greener, which will not only make it more attractive,
11:55 am
but also how protect the city from getting too hot in english didn't give this lands me for felix was eager to our cities are very built up, that the idea is that instead of being drained off to rivers by leading to flooding, water is retained in the cities of vasa. that's what's called a sponge city. that meant man, i had a family that lilian auto as a landscape architect and urban planner. his munich based team was awarded to re design contract construction is about to begin. gabriella mia? it's the targa loved as i am aware, experiencing more very hot days on that, but also more heavy rainfall my lunch off that's problematic enough in the countryside in but it's even more extreme in the cities on the face. how it can get unbearably hot in cities like causal were in the rhine valley. and we have to cool down our cities and at the same time, mitigate the heavy rain for which is becoming more frequent and retain the water in
11:56 am
the cities up. some is on the flutter, so it's so high. trees, fountains and miss spray will help cool the plaza father walkways, are permeable. water is a key design element. ah, well, if we had a quick, we need to use every project to boost water retention in cities. for plans, for cooling purposes, explaining, we need to convert cities to what's called green and blue infrastructure one, cause who has adopting the sponge 30 concept to meet the climate change challenges of the future. to innovation is essential. forester band had pound bagger in the store. invite is also looking for creative ways of maximizing water retention just like ploy on auto and kassawa. his name is to capture, distribute, and use watcher as efficiently as possible. mm. that then tried to buy these and
11:57 am
my number is that we can lot either from what is crucial is that we make the call function of the forest or the focus of our efforts with user to boost water attention and increase its sponge function v cronin v can now does a shameful to on shy gun. ah, there are grounds for optimism. we just need to adapt to changing weather patterns . that's what pans back mayor frank harsh tells people as he tours germany, raising awareness of flash blood. ah, was, well, this morning we need action and improvement across the board don't joined us. he said, i do believe that can work. but a lot needs to happen before people like yoga and and marianna bowman are safe from the threat of flooding. and the villages have been tough, work pounds, bah, and elsewhere. after a lot of hard work,
11:58 am
the couple have almost finished rebuilding their home. yes. finally, we're making progress and we'll simply downwind. the under floor heating has just been installed. now the 1000000 dollar question, where will the couch go to? not mine, are you asking me or my wife will leave that to them to figure out, ah, but the couple did agree on tiling the floor tiles are more water resistant. just in case ah chico to throttle. you my actual breaking the teen fooling one's whole charming,
11:59 am
humorous and beautiful on so many levels. joy of living life. you romance? in 30 minutes on d. w. b, the 100000000 trees. pam can is rain for us to still be saved in so far breaker. deforestation has provided the locals livelihoods. now, an environmental project on borneo plans to revitalize the jungle and secure the well being of small a global 3090 minutes on d. w. is the end of the pandemic in site. we show what it could look like. return to normal. and we visit
12:00 pm
those who are finding it difficult with successes in weekly coping 19 special every thursday on d. w with this is dw news ally from berlin. ukraine shares. russian forces are advancing on the center of sierra denalis. president of law made zalinski says russian bombs have almost wiped out the eastern cities critical services as he.
21 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
![](http://athena.archive.org/0.gif?kind=track_js&track_js_case=control&cache_bust=325336317)