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tv   The North Drift  Deutsche Welle  December 15, 2022 7:15pm-8:01pm CET

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this tale hernandez made it one mill just 5 minutes in olivia. he reads 12 minute chance further show the atlas lines torment best defense might finally be vulnerable. despite the early deficit, morocco didn't fold. yeah. vidalia meek probe. the french back line with a spectacular chance. just before the break, but it was france largely on the back foot in the 2nd half who dash moral cose dreams once and for all substitute randall colo moloney finish things off at 2 mill frogs. we'll hope to keep the celebration going by retaining the cup against argentina, while a half broken morocco pebble. ah ah . ah, and he tackled to this fish hotspots in gemini europe and the world
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dw travel extremely, wherein i mm. i've always been drawn to the far north, pristine nature and escape from civilization. ah. almost like being on another planet. at least that's what i thought you come and help me out here. just a 2nd there. ah, this is horrible. you see here becoming
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a plastic archaeologist. sorry. the whole earth is just so this, these layers that different generation. if you would just figure out how much plastic there is just along this little coastline, is hot, breaking them everywhere, visit thick. and now i'm here helping in in you it pick up garbage on a deserted island in the arctic ocean. and not just a little a lot, the rack this across it and i, i live with a health soon as soon as you look at how the color of this and i want to touch this looks like it's from u. k. miss bruckner. this is
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a boy maybe and that's not a very to reagan expression. it looks like it's been in the ocean for very long side to had with her. i okay, it's running slow. my name is stephan corner with my name stephanie cornel. i'm a filmmaker from dresden. most of my work has been in advertising. these jobs have taken me around the globe, including to low fulton in arctic, norway,
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which is where i gotta know chris lewis jensen. he's a local and we worked together on a film. we seated off right away. one day he took me kayaking. we paddled to an island in the middle of the arctic ocean. it's inaccessible by foot. i think we've all seen pictures of polluted beaches before, but so much plastic waste in the arctic. i had no idea. yeah, mm hm. ah, lizzie lewis written honest adding a timothy smell. and there was even a german b. a bullshit with russia. in the middle of the arctic clifton in active
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life. and now when i walk through the streets in germany, again, i see garbage everywhere. it's like something changed. i didn't notice it before, and it makes me crazy because i don't want the garbage to end up in the arctic. but how likely is it to end up in the arctic? the garbage would have to drift down stream about 600 kilometers to hamburg and from there to the north sea. then the atlantic, in the end, a piece of plastic would have to have traveled over 2500 kilometers to end up in the increase in the arctic. so i, so i started doing research associate oh wow. me up north in here. then out there. from down here. of course it would be really
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wild if it did come from the east and current home. if i release the bottle in the in the german river, alba, across the coastline could and up in the arctic. if you release a bottle on the german coast line and it stays afloat, the chances that it ends up in the arctic i think would be 95 percent. i am eric pennsville and i'm a climate physicist, an oceanographer here at utrecht university. now what happens to these are plastic or something that you throw in the ocean is slightly more complicated, a piece of plastic and also sing to the sea floor. it can also end up and beach. so there's ample but unity for a piece of plastic to not end up in the arctic but gets done. and unfortunately, we don't know, we don't have food enough simulations or models and theory yet to exactly calculate what the probability is in reality, something to go from germany all the way into the arctic. because what we found out
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a few years ago is that the amount of plastic that is currently drifting at the surface of the ocean is probably less than one percent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean. so 20 times more plastic enters the ocean in a single year than we can now account for at the surface of the ocean. 99 percent of the plastic is probably missing. so domain name now is to figure out where the plastic is or is of any of the dear com. and so i came up with the idea of simply taking a bottle, feeding it with the gps transmitter and watching what happened to them. but i
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needed help. me. i law bennett my not binds oregon. when i asked my neighbor, i knew he was studying technical design at the dresden university of technology. paula, his name is paul vice. i thought, hey, he's a tinkerer and a real tech head, or i'll ask him and i'm taking to his simplest idea, was to build a 3 d models, which i would then have printed them, whatever. you can then just put the gps tracker inside a seal and thompson on also saudi. i idea that's the planned and now it's just a matter of trying it to her. correct
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yeah, we're, we are following up down there at the loveseat. i think i'll walk for very well i'm excited. okay. ready. okay. ready. all right. okay. oh and one i fly to on 3. right.
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oh, i didn't want to hear the bottle story. i terrance? oh, i see flashes, i'm sorry. yeah. no idea what the bottle supposed to be. i'm still getting a gps signal. i was right there at the spot that the bottles just not there. the fascists, i've gotta tell you. sunk, does not have i think so thing. but maybe it filled up and it's now on the water i well, i got a lot of rocks that we have moved in piles of garbage instead, right where my bottle supposed to be more garbage. moreover, full trash cans was. but do you know what i found? but he is another message in a bottle. what? so what?
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i'll have to break it open. do you have a double thing with because he did a broken trash. can i pay you? glad you found my message in a bottle. i drew this picture for you. my name's carlos. i'm 5 years old and i live in dresden. i would be very happy to get a letter from you. sonny greetings, carla carlo did a nice job with 36 kilometers later i realized that this is all more complicated than i thought. our 1st drifter was a flop, but hey, at least i've got a new pen pal. i so hoffmeister, so we needed
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a new boil, mr. one that wouldn't sink on. we also needed more battery powered solar. maybe by through those the law does. i'm a contract. i'm almost forever. that would be cool. circ were yes, the p 68, it's unthinkable is info all . ah, i see the water was supposed that's bad.
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stop him and i think we have to redo it all. think if i am to explain myself. i would say my name is christian, 32 year old. i am have green landing my mother site and a half danish, the weekend for my father's foot. and nan. so i've always been very fascinated with yours. that's the element that i feel at home. my clean and the other thing that i need visited when i was 1st time
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i remember i was there with baptism, but i only have fragments of memory. oh, you know in greenland, if you walked just a 100 meters, you're far from civilization. i never had that idea of moving to the local. i had an idea of traveling all of knowing. after that month, i told my friends, but i'm sorry, i'm going to stay here. and i had the toughest to into my, my my car broke down and i had no money. the only job i could get was at the factory here. i was living 10 kilometers from it, started at 530 in the middle of the polar winter, the horrible weather for 3 months. and i use being within bicycling and have you had to borrow equipment from
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people that have like chris and now you have to stuff to borrow your title. just take it. that's the thing about some people say they have a great experience telling me their 1st formative years and placement. this is what i'm going to do. this is who i am and this is what i wanted. expand. excited sean val adlene bismuth gotten? it's changed a bit, but the dawkins and associates,
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it's different now as far as young. where do i start? oh, my friend unit is a study with himself meter. he works at the plastic smithy. hein? the recycle plastic? it's a group that recycles plastic, cleared his head out a sort and shred to plastic waste. hang them moscow cuffed it can then be melted down again and recast. and i know form things when garbage knew. that's where i came up with these rings in against farm home. the rings are supposed to support the whole structure of plastic. and we only use a very small amount of plastic. and we use recycle to plastic. so it's basically plastic neutral, classic not her, which is nice and both format you as you can find it right here. nature. sure nice . now we have all this garbage residence hall, them. you have it all a told in english and between the rings. you see these disks, so banashali is cork, but they're super sustainable with super buoyancy. it is, however,
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a bit hard to say how much weight it can carry and for how long. because even cork absorbs water at some point buffer. maybe it float steeper now or something or he is the boy with the bulk of land. it was completely under water, a total of 80 kilometers within 3 months. from time warner and on top of that are tracker, it's definitely waterproof and lasts about a year. i'd say 300 days, something like that, sorry with us with we eventually learned that the river can carry both our boy and trash a long way, especially when running high pools, new boy allowed us to continually adjust the prototype and fix problems depending on the river levels, our prototypes took around 3 months to cover 80 kilometers with several brakes
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along the way. it looked of improvisation. it's definitely because of the low water levels, the way it's positioned you can tell it'll probably be carried away again when the levels rise. since he rescued us, that looks pretty good. we decided to build several boys and then set them out along the elbow every 100 kilometers so that there parts could overlap. the i could of, i love it. let's get started. it's now $1230.00 and we have to finish today edition they say, oh start. okay laura? oh, wow. oh, works right.
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the laser in for the spending will be the covers with information like a contact details and the names of the boys sponsors line. unfortunately, the weather is a bit bad and are a bit of short on time. come up outside for 15 minutes later, for the worker with ah
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couple of people with it's a little after 7 and we really need to get this done today one to help. ah to
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mm hm. no, i can't, i kept here's the captain on and the guest of honor by the to the fin. hello. oh, hello. caroline. farmer i found has already tested the boat and i've got the rogue ready. yep. so that was the captain. you have to tell stuff on what to do. it's clerk and sir calla. calla. we're ready. this is the drop, the boy was it and was yes.
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then floating the love or if we did well, basin, what are some of them we go downstream and put one out every 80 to 100 kilometers so that their roots overlap it against the embassy. and then we wait on them from all i was possessed. ah was ex 901
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of the quick upside of what the project started with the growing scientific interest in the environmental problem with marine letter. at some point, you just can't ignore it any more. it's been hold on, hold on, i shouldn't, it's been new. i'm was on the show and i shall just, i'm a marine biologist. no, i don't have my doctorate quite yet. but i think when the film is finished, if i well that, did it other one back home to homeless in may or those before. i mean, of course we found out a lot for us is always the case in science. i know for every question on said 3 new
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questions, and we're always the main findings. all that garbage does indeed travel along the north seas main current board. but what we also found out is that gonna be just very susceptible to wind ins. kazama hungered on that, i'm up, we released him. the boy is the total of 3 times a year on those $63400.00 timber boys were released in the north sea in the tributaries law and offshore up the hook measure to response rate. the literally for 40 percent life, it's actually 43 percent finished. we're in the direction of the current. we know that waste is basically driven into the gym and bank and then more or less along the coast deflates we call shine and denmark to the north and then along the norwegian coastline out in the arctic. but neither can but this coastline is not. they were heavily populated by and that means although the small islands there, i think there will be a lot left us focus is on my new one know business. your boys really make it not
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just to denmark, but it may be that they land some way here along the swedish coast even well that they then go out again with the tide and then drift out along the coast of no way towards the out. take doctors we still have an hour right either. yeah. another hour. status stuff. that's all we're not crazy who did $90.00 to $1.00 is now we're taking china in total of $800.00 hall. another ambulance the one to talk to you about the flight to no way what we want to do, whether we want to re book it, move it forward. i mean listen to them. do we have dates?
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we're just love to go on the streets and the very necessary things. she's like been getting groceries. we had to go out the door to take your interest to still be a good home. i 2 years of work and one last minute film. shoot with chris before he moved south to study. and suddenly the world comes to a standstill. down thing is you'd have to climb $10.00 to $14.00 days if you wanted to do a lag. i've been trying, i'm looking into the government. it, it's difficult to get over it right now. no country is kind of locked in and the only thing moving between orders, plastic in this i was drifting. mm hm.
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so what does it, does it not as you man? his name is wyatt. so he's a must've got to he rescued it from the water kids. now it's going to hell, bob. all right, nice to meet you. what? i think it's funny. right? wired. wired. oh, the whole the dinner on board. okay. bye truth. so we found this fine from throwing it back. mm. oh. you think well, hello. hello. hi stefan. hi stefan. i just didn't read the name quick. okay. okay, i'm hannah and this is my sister marie. and we are from hamburg tumble,
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and we found it came together with an assistant, lena oakley and gwinnett, it's a non profit company again, be ha, yeah, we started doing that to clean up. so the friends and family last year on the excellence of stop. and it grew really quickly and a lot of people joined till and now we do it regularly with us later. mrs. yeah, as it is. yeah, that's the one that was right at the beginning of the knocked down. we got a cool that we should throw the boy back in the water and cook oven, and that was super exciting fun. there's a bush bund with yeah, yes, and then we went there and then we watched the current little bit 1st. we got some advice said that i knew exactly where to throw it in our did best left out. i'm alpha. when i go for it. yeah. very good. good of if you meet is all right.
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thanks bye. i found this in the atlantic ocean 5 or 6 years ago, but you can't even tell what it was. that's a, it's actually the process of micro plastic formation. all these little crumbs that we see here, they used to be pieces of these larger yellow pieces. this was actually just sitting around in my house. i've only moved it a few times and it's still decomposing. and that's basically what happens in the environment that these larger objects continue to decompose until they become micro plastic. my name is dr. laws good to me. i'm a marine biologist at the alpha vega institute in brown, my hub and basically i study the reactions of marine animals and ecosystem and changing environment. and these changes can be natural, but they can also be caused by humans,
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such as climate change or the pollution. a plastic object is more or less unique and there is this variety of animals that are sensitive and react in many different ways to the plastic. the effects are basically as diverse as the animal world itself. but is there high fish? what we often observe in many animals is that micro plastics in the tissues will trigger oxidative stress. does this kind of damage the genetic material and can also damage the facts that are necessary for example, to build up cell membranes. proteins can also be attack. i'm creating a sort of inflammation in here on hika research vessel from the alfred vega institute for coal and marine research. i will now launch the boys
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ever got it? yeah, yeah. it's been anchor the thing. yeah. i'm actually pretty optimistic that they'll start moving again when conditions change, im heightened and then the tides, the wind. i don't know how to handle them then they'll start floating them from you though it was the same there. but i can also, there was a lot of garbage around it there with that, i think it'll stay there forever. severe. it's heading norton norton knocker, garbage wise move
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. oh yeah. stigma and before breakfast will go dance, otherwise crazy. when you listen, when they get you find a lot of fresh everywhere. bottles everywhere. crackling, even if they are almost like a finder, they're like garbage. yeah. they were showing in the house with suffolk in the river. well, what they actually do?
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the rebates. 3 interesting, usually they have a little journey around like maybe 10 hours, but it's interesting on some point. they stop there for like a couple of days and then i don't know where they start moving. you know, here we threw it in and then actually when we through the trip to it, it just went a raw along the curve and then it gets stuck there for a couple of days. maybe even even 3 or 4. then it went further to this point that it got stuck again. and then i think yesterday or the day before it moved again. and it went all the way up here with a
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a but you don't bring in this house from what i understood. it was washed up in a pile of mud covered all over. it's really a dum pm, and i don't see it wins this from the is on 2009. crazy. ah. so you could tell her it might stay there for like even 10 years or whatever. but as soon as there is a lot of water, it just gets taken away because what, what's 10 years of a plastic lifetime? that's just like waiting one month in human lifetime or whatever. right. there's other doesn't grady.
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my number's melanie back ma'am, is my name is melanie bergman. 7. i'm a deep sea research on marine litter and climate change in the arctic than fema london enact that. i've had with nancy toward the tribe sides of the alfred wagner institute as had the house gotten deep see observatory since 1999, specifically to track the effect of climate change. this includes towed in camera systems which are drive one and a half meters above the sea bed, along the same route every year. the lithium land gazebo striking on dba and we've noticed that we're seeing more and more rubbish on the sea bed. and we took a detailed look at various stations and thousands of images and found that the amount of trash increases sevenfold between 242-017-5000, fiona 5005th. since he took off and didn't clock out of what we see is just the tip of the iceberg ones, i'm to find nickel plastic, talk fun to fits. we have also started to quantify micro plastics and found
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enormous amount sites in power at one station there with that teen 1000 particles per kilogram of sediment. and that exceeded anything we had previously imagined talk a spare time. streaming . amazing may come up to do this. oh, i got some interesting news. one has landed in no way. my friend. yes. yes. if i remember right, you told me that you are studying close to also or in also right. to call us from i mean it's, it's not in the optic yet, but it's pretty close to where you live,
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man. this is amazing. this is amazing. you guys know it's really cold, remiss. see all of reasons, right? this is a testament because i yeah. so, 10, right at the spot in love kill with malaysia. yes, we got there. that's a show that was about right
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shortly. there's a lot of different material is really good . ah. oh, crazy good. looking at the guy all the way from branch teresa plus get rid of it. it is wrecked, man, it is just destroyed on the upper side. saw it also right now, writing on the continent, printing, fasting, and their ability to host invasive species. you know that whenever interested in
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the ocean you can get your microphone on it. this is exactly the problem, like how it travels. and so the plastic will take you along the coast and didn't know even if some boys were still moving, it was clear that german garbage was drifting all the way to norway. it just took much longer than expected. so if this is the animation that forgot, so for i look forward to, oh, this one was almost made. i had over there, but still moving red here. says f like, so those 2. now here it stops for you. but in the yellow t, probably what happened is that the tiny bits broke off and they could have forced, but they can slowly step by step by step. every time we go smaller, smaller, that's how we get michael plastic in the market. damn, i'd say we found have
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a $10000.00 particles of micro class, like the liter mounted z. i just typed of this show that apple micro plastic goes everywhere on. i of, i'm planning him, call it and we, scientists are relatively united in our opinion that we will no longer be able to get it out. that most of the plastic that is now in the oceans will remain there. much of the large amount of ways will break down into micro plastics, but we won't really get it out. especially not if it is the size of micro plastics from garnishment, important price. let me call plastic this one. yeah, exception is long. as all i need to do for yes, yeah, i am worried say a study lansky showed for example, that micro plastics even pass from the mother to not yet born fetuses via the placenta. body plot center. and if in the show not born wouldn't offend, stabbing the children are exposed to it before they are even before the rot surveys
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. and i wonder if this somehow impact their development and fickle changes to some way by and i stick to em gaffa and not sonoma, and i form move because didn't come back yet. everyone, regardless of gender, political affiliation, age, you know, every body produces car, bacon, and just because you took out the garbage bag or the garbage on, it is not gone. what happens afterwards? well, what are the consequences for nature for society? if you don't think about adding bengal the same kind of that obama, the mom, dad, if you think about it, then it becomes clear very quickly that it is not only an environmental problem, but a social problem. we live in an economic system that is based on continuous growth, a constant increase in production. at some point, we have so much that we can no longer control it behalf, and we're starting to see those effects. it's something that seemed as infinite as
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the ocean where we thought everything we threw in will never see again, is bringing all that material back to us now. yeah, link is gone so much i got to work. and that i think is the most important thing. the plastic is on top of all the other pressures that we put on the ocean is on top of the ocean warming. the ocean is to the vacation, neosha, overfishing, the noise pollution, all of the other things that we're doing to the ecosystems in the ocean. it could very well be that the plastic is, is to drop that tips your bucket. i haven't used theory it. okay. so this a new j a made. it's
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a very serious one. you know, we have 5 plastic just around the world as fast as accumulating and won't really realize before and 510 years is called a guarantee. so, no, sir, do you know me? walters, b, a, b testing jail. most of the gulf stream will end up eventually. oh, to the point to the strong opinion, clear positions, international perspective routines was bringing death and destruction to ukraine, but it is also changing power structures across europe. these displays leadership
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