tv Preserving Peatlands Deutsche Welle August 14, 2023 7:03am-7:30am CEST
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on the web, so slides and these web supplies are on to stretch it new methods could save the world's plans as well. so plus the strips of green rule germany, something is growing here. the could help whisky folks. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and are unrecognizable. and of course a gallery, m a t is crates, want to show what's being lost and how to get it back and wait. 3, that was quicker than my thoughts was. they regularly take samples with the pro or the 23rd of school to heighten, on to the slow it down. it looks good,
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but everything above where its dry is low. so with the, when the people get drained begins to decompose, you can see that in the sample in the upper layer where it's so doc, there's lots of companies. there's what that says, it's all scottsdale who was this, the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants which funk into shallow, slightly acidic water. this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose the carbon stays port. the draining exposes the layers to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as comp and dioxide. and what wasn't more detailed and keep lands on like probably more. and then they can do so much. the bio diversity alone is very special and they tell me to call but and sing the surfaces. that's why it's so important that we protect so heat lens and not just one living ones, but also the ones we drain and that tom grace, a gallery,
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has been functioning for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on former bulbs, which she normally studies, but also works to restore through re wishing, but it can only work if the farmers who live off the land agree. germany has around 1800000 head tests of pete land. an area of roughly the size of saxony, 98 percent has already been drained, mostly to make way for agriculture draining as a climate disaster. because it makes carbon sources of ancient carbon sinks freelance now contribution about 70 percent of germany. c o 2 emissions. by comparison, national air traffic contributes just to 0.15 percent, almost 50 times less grace a god, a wants to to and these climate chillers back into climate save us. together with local farm is a difficult and muddy task. the
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she and her team of researching how crops could be produced on the wetlands for the christ found maya center. the did you find it? can you know? yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but the story green plants could help save the planet. they're incredibly useful for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top comes from paula, which is the last and this is woman full motion. so agriculture on went both lines to swung by pressure, doubting study biology and was intrigued by these most as even as a student. the usefulness was the whole 9 at the time. she's currently working on instruction manual for polluted culture. if i don't want to do science,
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that just ends up in a drawer, alpharetta i want to be using, and this is a whole new kind of agriculture, of a system that could revolutionize how we grow plants piece is now used everywhere in soil for home gardening. or cultured plants by professional guidance centers and for commercial vegetable fields, hung up the piece is hosting a wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in plants, so it was bulk, most growing, most 1st needs to become more efficient. the team is testing machines for maintaining most fields. it's precise work because they only want to remove the upper layer and preserve the precious volt. below this sample, this put the lab for each be a heavy of this polluted culture system was blown at
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the gloss fold minus into which is we chris, a gallery examines his favorite plant. this, this here at the top most b, this is the pete most volume. yes. we want to try it 1st and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could positives and unsecure by the and it's socket answering content of the 2nd, the muscles have unless potential for use compliance. so we'll talk more the on the most is dennis that the climate flight and fall from us, they can replace piece and hold a culture. it's a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the 1st one. and secondly, pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most is, which would mean that the high emissions that currently come from drain cleveland with the, i think in the lab tests go well as to the 1st few trials. she's confident that
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they can develop a system so much production. this is where the ecological economists, sabina vision comes in. the job of germany's most important pete land research center is to ensure that projects have a solid economic foundation both for the vice of the 12, most places. new areas will be needed to grow bubble muscle. and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck to is 9. so to will need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high invested tons costs, which is why the next total for the researches is funding bias. perhaps they can convince a god and center the north. finland has units, most extensive paid lands home to red animal and plant spaces. but these bio types also died as i was stripped mind for few or drains to make room for
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forest plantations. taylor most and has been working to mitigate the damage. he's a climate scientist and activist and as a globally respected scholar, he also contributed to the you in climate change reports. he has an especially strong bond is one pete land. it. he's nice, he's been and it almost feels like leno so it is kind of a person. you see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would piece that i'm no looking at. it may potentially be 2 or 3000 to years old. i often want to think that these lands are if the memory of feeling loved without list and in his normal profit, snow change name. and so a wouldn't exist as it does today. it's one of around a few areas across the country that have been successfully rewarded. and it's new. the 46 year olds, home village. so key or is it has told us everything we haven't needed to learn in
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order to make this a national program. and from that we started to learn and the test and innovate. how can you restore large beat land system. busy a huge projects of a 110 hic tents piece has been harvested. he has fuels to decades. the money just somebody took the landscape and present the results. it was severely impacted by a human decisions for economic gain and a to production that had the sas prose results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are active comp and sources. even after the mining has stopped pedro most tenants, home village also filled the fix. 10 columbus is down strain energy maci kind and is the fisherman and most students,
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long timeframe. if you just choose one piece of wood to clean the, i'll add more later. going to stop being so skeptical. name is clifton. the 69 year old could only watch is pete mining really destroyed the nature and his livelihood, not to task that i saw fish lying dead along the show me a list or floating lifelessly in the water. obviously, it was terrible. i was in total, charlotte room mostly time and the entire village, full back. they sued the energy company with the help of children whose tenants environmental non profits and was the 1st time in finish history that local successfully colton. piedmont, in the snow change purchase student, and so to be we, while it is vital to listen and understand the best part of what a, not
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a and others are telling us. because take one thing potentially one element which is missing wisdom. what is that right thing to do? we have ample choices of different pathways. offers funding, but always having the comb bus and map on the right choice the so as a model for damaged areas of the project has been carefully documented to insure it states that way the, the afternoon paul can build a little them across this wasteland. another one from timber and then the big then environment list a list huge. i'm a boost call from spain is measuring greenhouse gases emitted by the soil. the natures slowly but surely
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reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show, the size is being what the drain peak land me said. $400.00 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore eco system now pulls as much as a 100 tons of c o 2 a year from the atmosphere, the just a few kilometers away. the re welding process includes killing nature. thousands of pines and spruce is need to be cut down to help with 10 whitland to health. that may seem counter productive for pete lands are actually far better at storing comp and trees, and compared to help with sweet our climate goals. we say that we have 5 to 7 years
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to act, to stop leasing from this world based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important the very best estimate and it's got cement to restore it back to health. the excavation has to feel own drainage channels to re with the bulk a difficult task for pete land that covers more than a 100 hectic. but it's the only way for water to stop connecting again the most and develops taylor my plan for each whitland. you have to be very carefully thinking where we're putting the actions and what simple, how deep or big the dams should be enabled that right, well the level, the painstaking, what has now being transitioned into
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a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland, snow change of a story about 66, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and invest as a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy if nature's were to lead. and so my good sleep does that have long disappeared. have returned along with more than 200 of the animal and plant species. these place shows that with the assistance coverage and scientific commitment, we can still have a chance. and that's the biggest message we can tell from the. so a message from your lips final to the world, the 2nd germany, the researches from gross fault on her nose to find out how to have both moss has
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been faring as plants soil. grace had got a good sabina vision. i'm curious to hear the results with ty 5 reads. most the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists recommendations to the test on cope with my tomatoes or tomato pounds about 3 pounds as a grow and 100 percent political to substrate talking. but this is the 1st time i've seen that don't, this is it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for longer there for a multi point to geraniums or tomatoes. the result show plants love the pete free. so will research manager michel e mail believes in the polluted coaches, substrates and says that are also suitable for commercial green houses. is our stuff to see a e d audit. this material is ideal. this computer's great property. you yourself could, you know, nice. the cost is a problem. zoe,
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the on the right now on the comb, compete with pays economically concrete and it's just too expensive to grow is, is, i don't know to toilet is much gotten. some potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany replacing it would require growing mos in around $40000.00 tech to it's just re wishing a small fraction. 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand great dowdy types, farmers will also see the potential movies you want us not to lose just um, my vision is that many you agree and use to lose a culture most up straight to hoops. accountsight of that many farmers say, oh yes you and that's what this is. you know, tons of things that make sense here to see what this information feed, lance can yield more than most of as individual build wisdom, pomeranian scientists researching and most of mass plants twice our cat tiles are
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also thought to be promising the pants of robust and highly 1st autonomy here we are. most levels of originally checks to determine when cat tails happiest as 68 the centimeters. 58. ok. okay. and what paid lens tie for grove. ethan, when is a drought and they can cope with heavy rain plants, a sturdy and an ideal building material on how to turn this off, that can cause you to see what people want for construction. so insulation materials structure without gaps which insulates well and it's very light, you just stick. these walls could also be used to make load bearing elements. this some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the road past plan. this is tanisha. i am plus demo dee, i thought that this isn't blowing installation materials,
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which it can be used like cellulose flakes or would find them in um doesn't quite enough. these poke pull. you can still see the shape of the leaves and it has an airy structure. and is it solid one? has a high load bearing capacity and can insulate at the same time in class had dish um, isn't young? the researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them in progress is already being made. the gym government began supporting community culture in 2023, hoping protect piedmont park, the front desk us and a polo sciences. i'm convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable agriculture and the supply renewable rule material and call, and that's what we need to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. so when you collaborate to is just a few kilometers away. harvest
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time in the re way to people in the fall and the hanging for each grows more grass. sho, i'm just checking to see if that fails. so talk more. so during the recent riots and target voice has been harvesting more grass from these fields every, some of the 8 years is filed to begin the process. and now the 29 year old is tony more more to both finding the experts in gross fall shift some of the things so this is my new move. please tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the crime and apply to how i solve this problem that came up, use results as more sustainable. i had to give them and help our climb and on. so this is my chose to do something for this small area that i call on to these a strip can i, my 1st issue will find, so it has to take notes between bit by bit,
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the 4 weeks free wasted 2 thirds of the farmland. they decided to become polluted. culture farm is at their own risk. have yet to receive any special subsidies. the sky. yeah, this is the products that's highest and most this wasn't subsidized. and so we had to work can normally from the very beginning the combustion was the most feasible and quickest to implement of a body. and as a result, when my brother in law took the step to install this heat in prompt as a part of the project and how to you upfront, so tight and send it to load for you as portal to. and that's a pretty high low to the full turns around $4000.00 barrels of dried move across the cheese. when he's buying a mess. heating plant, the carbon footprint is negative because burning the carlos doesn't commit more c o 2. and it's still worth while growing. and the re wishing folk absorbs additional common sense. what central, how does a lot of these and listen for the guy spied myers said it was always very generous
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with his knowledge of your service and stuff which allowed us to make scientifically funny sound decisions here. this would have been impossible without them. they helped us feel confident that this was feasible of best of luck with the entire town now benefits from the innovative family business. they have bio mass teaching plants, supplies of school, several office buildings, and about 500 departments with affordable heat, even amidst an energy crisis. in motion, restoring a peat land became a win win situation for the climate farm as the local population. or what's the latest thing you guys, researches in the us are also looking at how important piece lance off. so the climax biologist natalie griffith and soil scientist, randy coca using these glass towers to research what a global climate policy should look like. and to this, the biologist and climate scientists appearing into the future. and this is just an
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experiment to demonstrate that this is how that might look 50, a 100150 years now of the my cell, experimental forest, us government research station in northern, minnesota. the facility has an annual budget of about $5000000.00, making it one of the most expensive climate experiments in the world. not really griffith, as i've seen a ground breaking project on how flat to pray, and people hands will decompose the climate change it's samples of being buried in bags times we bought them get a better sense of what's going to happen to these eco systems under future climates, they're very critical ecosystems for carbon does carbons been deposited over a thousands of years. and so it's really important. understand what's going to happen under warming. today's really high carbon needs assistance, cocoa increases. he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how, how will the book behave at 9 degrees of global warming?
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of the bags provide crucial clues experience for 7 years, pretty decompose, and we have a lot of other bags buried in the seat here. the high, the temperature will the, will get it components in the pete decompose and the more harmful c o 2 gets released. a disaster for the clock or mean really increases the rate of the composition and the feet when. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from thinks of carbon, the sources of carbon, and it's an additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing in the atmosphere that's really not well accounted for these global models to predict the future climate. the josh i helps develop and optimize scenarios to better assist the impacts of climate change. fail here for another 3 years.
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back back in the ground. randy pope, i helped establish the research station more than 10 years ago. the 58 year old isn't just researching the future. he also wants to help shape. it's the biggest thing that we're learning is you know, that we can affect how these eco systems behave now and in the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our because systems like p lands to influence climate change, they need to start thinking about doing some things. now the findings to raise the awareness of pete lands at the highest political levels. and they are feeding into the you and integral of mental panel on climate change. or i p c. c reports we're very proud of the impact for make and, you know, i'm,
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but now it's to this community, you know, 20 years ago was really the critical importance of these eco systems. and so people on this were relatively under study, but our current research is going to impact and get to the decision makers at all levels of government started thinking about the product and service, these eco systems. the scientific evidence shows the peat land protection equals climate protection, and the potential is unknown. low pete lands coverage is 3 percent of the world's land area. they store twice as much comp and as the world's for us. it may look dangerous or mystical at these song columns sing champions, could become the ultimate climate. safety is the
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