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the pandemic has many unanticipated side effects on emissions on work travel, and more. so what was the environmental impact of the pandemic? i'll topic on this week's coven 19 special. in indonesia, for example, illegal deforestation increased. but 1st, the corona virus on animals do animals that humans infect each other. and if so, what cannot teach us? scientists in the netherlands want to find out the province of flavor land in the heart of the netherlands. dotted with fields of tulips, canals and modern architecture. but flavor lands, capital lay leash. dad isn't just home to exotic. concrete structures is also whether possible future shape of the cov 19 pandemic is being sketched out. research is at the walk in england by a veterinary research lapse. looking at the waist,

covey to behaves in animal tissue now. and how it might behave in the years to come macrophages to be new, to study, all kinds of animal species that may be infected, the shore score of ours to. so 1st look whether we see symptoms or source groan of ours to win his animals. and if you see dirt or dust, these animals were that are infected and also a rather dairy and spread to the vars. wim vanderpool has studied the disease. for example, in hamsters which can be infected by cov, it 19 and pass it on to us symptoms in the road. and it's not that different than in humans. they include left the g weight loss and shortness of breath. this is what the lung tissue from a hamster infected with. coven 19 looks like. by testing how viruses behave in animals, the scientists can anticipate and estimate how great a threat they might all supposed to humans. the question of whether an animal is able to spread, coven 19 is an important one. the more virus cases there are. whether in animals,

owen, humans, the greater the chances the virus will mutate. trying to reconstruct infection chains is very complicated. one theory, some scientists and china proposed for the origins of the oma kron variant, for example, is that the variance predecessor could have leapt from humans to mice. a process known as spill back. i think it could have mutated in the animals into our microns immediate ancestor, which then jump back from mice to humans. and my son, not the only suspects, actually are quite a number of any must be, she said, as susceptible or to the virus. the question is always whether or not it is only an initial infection or whether the animal will also be able to transmit the virus to other species or the same animal mnc. do you have the ability to transmit cove it? this is what the corona virus looks like in them. after being fast reported in the

netherlands in february 2020 cove, it 19 ripped through main populations in european farms. when the virus mutated in the animals began infecting staff, the farms, then monks government, drastic action, and called every farm menke in the country. millions of them in denmark, when the mink outbreak, we saw that the virus changed in a way that it could be. it could become more infectious to people and could also spread more rapidly and people so use animal. the transmissions can be very important and can be very risky for protocol reasons. in the u. s. research as a now looking at the potential threat posed by white tailed deer, which may yet prove problematic for the course of the pandemic. the world house organization currently estimates that one in 3 of the animals across the whole of the u. s. have been infected with coven 19. that's in the wake of an outbreak that started mid 2021. 1 paper not yet. peer reviewed reports. a case for the virus is

thought to have jumped back from deer, into humans. and other danger is that there could also potentially spread the infection to domesticated livestock, which would further increase the risk of exposure and spread in humans. the bargaining and research is the trying to predict and possibly prevent defense like that before they can occur. it's a difficult task. while i hope that our modeling can help us to bring us a step ahead of the, of the virus in the future, because at the moment me, ah, we wait until a new variant arise. and then we respond to that. getting one step ahead would allow vaccine developers time to test and tweak faxing alternatives. it could also provide early warnings to public health officials to prepare infrastructure. a central aspect of managing any pandemic that the virus will change as a given. but being able to anticipate those changes and prepare for them could help

save lives. when illegal logging has long been a problem in indonesia. but under the pandemic, it's grew worse. in part because many communities tend to logging to survive when, how's it 19 hit indonesia? the country faced another outbreak, deforestation i report shows 50 percent more forests were played in the 1st 20 weeks of 2020 than in the same period a year earlier. indonesian environmentalists like only otter ca on say this spike in deforestation was no coincidence or brawl. donna lingual, any of that when we talked with you authorities in several regions. they said that

when they were in lock sound during the pandemic, they weren't able to do bad jobs. as usual, abby saw back the feedback. i support the yes i most of them were working at home. would you unlock on board? you go young, yellow button. so the authority said it was difficult for them to monitor the forrester. my see? ah, go i. d. been vomiting by all bolt. malackle got one he thought he fully answer. see again says that forrest patrols also fell victim to budget cups. during the pandemic and the economic downturn had another effect on that originated in the cities. as unemployment grew in urban areas, during locked down many migrant workers returned to their villages, putting further pressure on forests, alcala, dairy, and gotten ma'am, and you slow on. the data showed that the migration of people from cities to rural areas increased significantly under ariana, what it was man from 36700000 and 2019. it increased to 40000000 people early in

the pandemic. but oh, but with an online here they, these $40000000.00 people are more than a quarter of the total workers in indonesia. number final, i buried you, wrap up on people from the cities looked for work in their villages, where agriculture is the dominant industry. but more people in the village means less land to cultivate legally, or decided to go smoked the amount of land that can be legally used. as gerald was, when more people move from cities to rural areas, they try to find new land. allah, well, much of the legal land in the villages has been sold to large companies for mining or large scale agriculture. the villages tried to make a living by illegally farming in the forest. ah, by that do go, ah, i shall, i can look back sire. in many cases, they believed they had no choice but to turn to illegal land in the forest law by

any wrecker guy beside his holligan's. but many people were forced to find new land in the forest to survive along the bundle. and i'm glad he arguable young, but they can't be fully blamed. the problem is caused by agrarian and equality, which is the main cause of increased deforestation in this country where he dupon back. in march 2020 indonesia lost more than 1200 square kilometers of forest, far more than in previous years. environmentalists or warning of a looming catastrophe if deforestation continues. ah, during the pandemic corrode of, i'm as restrictions can many people at home. factory production was ramped down on people commuted and traveled less. what impacted that have on greenhouse gas emissions. worldwide. reporters spoke to miriam bull from of cdp, europe, and, and geo that advises companies, cities and governments on how to build

a sustainable economy. hello, mrs. moore and go from very nice to meet you. we heard that the emissions decreased during the height of the pandemic. i'm to lock dance. can you tell us why was just the emotions struck significantly during the pandemic around 8 percent, according to the international energy agency. and actually this is really the showing about the percentage of the emissions needed every year in emissions cuts for the next decade until 2031st the united nations to meet our 1.5 harris target. and the reason for these drops and emissions, because many parts of the world came to a 1st force still stand in order to corrupt the spread of the cobit virus. being much of the kilbourne economic activity to a halt. the inactivity affects most the conference petition and obligation,

but also of course, industry and related to power generation, causing carbon emissions to decline past us. decrease had any significant effect on climate change? no, it has not. the unfortunate answer. also the pandemic and resulting limitations on you know, it could not make sectors, but also travel of course, drastically decrease the acquisition and greenhouse gas emissions at storage. the decrease has no known term impact. the only thing that will have long term impact is a stomach permanent change. so we have a momentum now and we must ensure that we don't lose this momentum that's pandemic might be also nearing its end. and to give you one example, cdp has reported direct court disclosures between 20202022 increased from 9600 companies to over 13000 companies reporting done by mentor. they turned in 2022. that grows illustrates that endemic has not stopped companies around the

globe to continue their efforts in, you know, environment to transfer into action. and this is good news. it is essential to maintain and strengthen businesses. now investors and government commitment as well as, of course, the citizen support to really achieve and continue moving into this just an inclusive and green transition id emissions back to the same level as before the pandemic. now, unfortunately, global emissions have rebounded to quite varying levels in 2021 to reach the highest of and your level with 6 percent increase from 2020, according again to the international energy agency global energy review. this rebound has reversed the pandemic, included decline, and emissions, and c, o 2 emissions and 2021 role is above the pre pandemic level. in

2019 coal, for example, accounted for over 40 percent of the oval, gro was in global c o 2 emissions last year and deforestation, land hughes, and agriculture and expansion continue to contribute to global emissions with agriculture, driving almost 90 percent of global deforestation. according to the u. n. food and agriculture organization. so in short, the pandemic did not tell climate action. thank you very much for this interview. ah, the crude of iris makes people sick, and so do you particularly like the virus? they enter the airways and end up deep in the lungs. so is there a connection between fine particulate pollution and coven? 19 d, w. you know, i can, i guess, spoke with an expert on fine particulate on the health impact.

everyone might grab something alum mosquitoes. this is glitter, let me quickly hold it up to the camera. glitter so it's really small. good sir. i shop glister frontier every other day. i find stuff on the fine particulate matter . we're talking about is a bit smaller. is clay less than 2.5 micro meters? so meta on these are and this particular matter is about some millimeter. if you inhaled it, most of it would get stuck in your nose and only a few particles without bigger. they refinance ninty these and play in that molar than 2.5 micro meters. one millimeter is 1000 micro meter. this is why will i brought this stuff along so that we can demonstrate it. so it's $100.00 times smaller than this year. i'm a 1000 times smaller line raising so you can't see it with the naked i hear you. can i see exactly. you can't see it with the naked eye i from here we have up to

5000 pascals, put cuban that you'd get between 50100000 particles per cubic centimeter. particular poor cubic centimeter. where does it come from? is the result of combustion processes. it could be calm, so power plant is on coal power plants or domestic heating all of these as sources for particular and people who lived near busy streets with every breath, the in hill, millions of potentially dangerous tiny airborne particles that affect their immune systems. are down to very good study. it showed that people who live in areas with high abolition levels have a 30 percent higher risk of developing coven 19 if there and i know to peter's and her team are also conducting a large scale study via vis and high to out them. we are now know that fine particulate matter doesn't just affect the love disease to metabolic diseases. and we also know that fine particulate matter affects the brain. my,

this idea is food to find out whether that leads to higher contest the. i know the other question answered, what are the long term effects that city does? fine particulate matter also contribute to long coven? for example, i, some of them have had covered 19 now haven't got own amendment dish. my husband and i had cove at last november. my husband lation lisa elliot. well, but you're both fine. no, no. me. i'm not really. we both still have trouble walking. we start to sweep either aspect dot, the subjects undergo various tests, including a lung function, test, many long covey patients have trouble getting an affair at madison t for our partner. i 05 south admin by the of didn't have a busy man. the said the funnel on the roof there measuring the levels of fine particulate matter where the materials live d,

or does whom will continue to collect a process i am in one to 2 years will have initial results on fine particulate matter cove 19 as well as on the various infection control measures and peoples i, the victim is often talented as a one to drag the cov 19. that's even though the world health organization has said they have come into fire after spending millions of years supplying, i've elected to residence with private 19 for 2 years without the 53 year old had read about the d warming agents. suppose it benefits on social media, but she knew the drug didn't work after she and her house hospital gave them a medical kid that contained diver makin. claudia was skeptical. she says they weren't properly and no one not. i mean, for a month there was no information from the public health authorities very soon and

neither on their home page, nor from the doctors who political ether by the she was one of 200000 patients to receive a medical kit distributed by mexico city officials that contained, i remarked treatment with the drug city authorities carried out a survey that looked like a clinical trial to justify its use. the document was published on the open for what sociology. professor juan pablo pog guerra cause it's deliberately misleading data. closing mr. garcia, and i think why those get was palladium in the database was very poorly. construct into l. e analysis. garza biased hills, was the experiment and the quasi experimental methods. jo. laws that those city officials defended the distribution of ivr mountain siding, its supposedly low risk and cost at an early state. ver, officials declined to give an interview to dw about the ethical questions of supplying an unapproved drug without providing information to patients. analyst

javier to hello says city officials agreed to the purchase of nearly $300000.00 packages of ivr met in worth an estimated $1500000.00 the drug were bought, especially when the news of its possible use 1st emerged. last, if he gets a very bad justification from the bicycle cities, secretary of hell and me for chrissy this year, mexico city has stopped distributing. i remarked in, but the drug is still being promoted byte vaccine. skeptics, misinformation o chewing the pandemic. many people around the world took comfort in longstanding tradition, celebrating festivals and reviving old cutty indigenous regions of acquittal every year in june, the indigenous communities of, nor though in many parts of the country, this ancient ritual didn't take place during the pandemic. blanca

bonita is a traditional hydrogen. i. let's go check a inquiry if our for lack of when we had that we covered cases in the coastal area and also in other countries we had ago is come on a deal. knife, we made lots of positive progress with our experiments fighting virus, and they can manipulate it to that. they say it could be that of trust. the indigenous communities, hierarchical structures are respected and valued and that didn't change during the pandemic would hit us this hard. our country in our community is jealous. come when you have is them you. after the government ordered a lockdown, we had to take matters into our own hands, slim own garden, as every one stores produce. opinions for me though i miss, i must say martha could account. she canton has a the main industries, our tourism and agriculture. there were fewer cove infections here than in other

parts of ecuador. let me read it in 1755 cases. 30 patients died and 1715 patients recovered the 16th of kings. it was here. oh, despite the restrictions in the last 2 years, some remote rural communities chose to celebrate the indeed i me festival of the sun as usual. the visit us at the maryland, when the pandemic went global. it also had an impact here in the countryside. it didn't in the canton anthem, but the cook had, she is famous for its culture, a life and music. there are many artists here. it was a blow over the last 2 years had some benefits. they revived many of the customs of their ancestors. but a, but a meal, am i lo, method, be fucked to do. many deal of corbin is in peace. i don't have, i mean, totally zealous front of me. smith, i but as for some of you the most thing a couple for people who live in the countryside. but the old plants have

grandmothers. i yada as it was received by our elders, by our neighbors immigrant. but we gradually acquiring more expertise and sharing it with other communities. and it was incredible if at all, no one effects on june 24th and 25th, the catch one communities will celebrate. indeed, i me, that's all for this edition of october 19th, special with a focus on the environmental impact of the pandemic. next week we'll take stalk of where things stand in the pandemic watching, unceasing ah, ah.

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