to shannon with c w plus or emphasizing the award winning offer is available world wide. every language level. learning, jasmine has never been since the here this off that when i was a kid, things were different. well, now that they use, they're saying less how much things are different. white people in canada is up to region and literally losing the ground beneath se, se, se steps we find out west. finland is planning to bury its nuclear waste and toxic dust. and you dissolve is blowing from the ruins of tuck. he's recent to us quite

the . i want to celebrated miracle material, asbestos to study able to withstand heat and corrosion cheap and easy to use. it was widely used in the construction of homes, ships and industrial sites, but especially those is also costs. and the gent move in to 150000 people worldwide die every year, following contact with it. and despite being banned in many countries, us best offices still found everywhere was fatal consequences. a huge cloud of dust, blankets, the city of heads, high and southern techie. much of the city was devastated by an of craig in february. now the nice the rubble, another danger is emerging. asbestos are excuse says investigation reveals the

extent of the best of contamination and has high dw reports as from the turkish and environment. departments and vices. an expert team from the countries chamber of environmental engineers to the region. here they collected 45 death samples at different locations. the results point to it does off to that could affect millions of people. who the, anyone who's been in how tie is at risk of being exposed to asbestos, eating, gosh gushing. turkish authorities say the amount of asbestos in the region is below dangerous levels. but according to the world health organization, a single s best of the bible women haled can lead to lung cancer. turkey and around 70 other countries has banned the sale of especially those products. but its legacy is still around us. because existing asbestos materials used in buildings and elsewhere, the for the bands are like it taking boom. in the aftermath of the us quake mold

and 100000 buildings collapsed. many contained as best of materials and now that parts of the dust crew fare at is an expert from tech. he's chamber of environmental engineers. he'll be helping the dw reports is on the ground to collect dust samples from high tie. the 1st one will be a control sample from the cruise call. the idea is to see if causes in the us click region collect and transport task contaminated with us best us. the crew wash the cost before taking a sample. johnny stops and get the entech. 200 kilometers away from hats. i was the local apple was damaged in the escalade. 7 months after the disaster, the city still resembles a will zone. the people of high tide try that best to live a normal life, but they're worried about the us. nothing did it come directly behind us as

a rumble science said hills, our lungs while we are training our lungs have begun to swell its having a bad effect on our physical and mental health. and a lot of the people here are living very close to rubble. we took dust samples from the top of the 10s where they live . if you go to the control because of that. and then we also enter the area where demolition waste is stored. in there we took various samples for as best as analysis, so you can see some of that of it's just like the residents, the workers don't use any protection from the dust. asbestos controls mesothelioma long and plural cancer, a decades exposure as a constant task and also need to acute to illnesses of the 50. the and my brother got sick from the death of them is that it happened the 1st we

took him to the hospital and they gave him blood g. i'm almost done. i'm much ice cream to tend to uh, yeah, and enough. it's making us, it shows it well. the ones you could afford to leave the city have left, but many have nowhere else to go. according to public health experts, thousands of children in the region on our at risk of developing sorrel or lung cancer. as adults 50 columbus is away on the coast of heads high. we talked to another low coat with acute symptoms. the whole family has it, and my wife has it, the worst of it of the rebel right next to his shop contains all sorts of waste from electronic goods to toxic heavy metals, as well as bibles cement and insulation,

materials known to contain asbestos. almost no one came to examine us or to offer counseling, even though we live in the center of the city. we're not in villages or in the mountains. he's not the only one living next to piles of rubble across the region. demolition work is underway in the streets. activity icon, a lawyer from the heads i lawyers association has been campaigning since the us quick happened to say for management of rubble waste that protects public health. the 2 felt ill from the task, the setup slomo column over there is a can now use for agricultural irrigation to lisa. there's a high school and police headquarters nearby. you young, tough again. and then there's another school content and the container city is about 50 meters away from here. it's got a brussel. yes, i'm

a breeding area for longer. head turtle is close by the truck. yeah. so is the beach is and also a bird sanctuary, which in the stronger what are some of the question using this place as a rubble dumping area is high regardless of what a colonial central. yep. the crew take samples from the dump site and also from the leaves of the vegetation, nearby olives, and possibly a grown here. and once it's being harvested, local produce is transpose it full of attack a little bit because only they never covered trucks that carry rubble with tarp lens faithful. the even that would have helped to prevent dangerous and hazardous substances like as best. so what does it come contaminating surrounding us or not? and how to protect the public health subject him the the local say that the government has prioritized reconstruction efforts of the public health.

of to 2 days of reporting on the ground. we're back and gets in tip. the team takes another dust sample from the top of the car. the next day, the board tree results show that calls can carry asbestos task hundreds of kilometers. the detailed lab reports prove the residential areas, soil leaves and fruits in many neighborhoods, all contaminated with asbestos. usually get us from the lab results we received or alarming and we detected as best those and 16 out of 45 samples. the statements made by the authorities and how to i and the ministry of environment don't reflect the realities on the ground. you also through the public health expert as can gen because that's as also examine the report. the key in the, on the notes in the coming years, we may see tens of thousands of very young people die of mesothelioma related conditions. will they really change?

but in order to determine how many people are affected in the region, or we need objective health monitoring studies, official statements claiming that people are not affected, or just covering up the problem, the focused on you. now he says it's vital that the all stars he's act fast entering the board and then the bush, then there's measures need to be taken today. bloomfield, i think that would help. could you send it to that? towards the dust and smoke need to be closely monitored and eliminated to to then call the get it so you can go to get it to help them look up musket, autumn with masks should be distributed to people and workers in the region and look almost and they should be encouraged to use them thinking how many walk the little tools that need to move is equal to the areas that are most affected by dust should be identified. and the residents relocated for around the world. the

especially those removal process is costly and slow that the current situation in turkey shows that in regions at risk of the us quakes. it's a matter of urgency because otherwise, when disaster strikes, the consequences the deputy, the so we've arrived the minus 437 meters on the ground. we're inside the only final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the world. there's going to be basically an all day in europe within the next hundreds of thousands of years. this tunnel is deep on the ground is supposed to be the game changer for nuclear waste. there a quarter of a 1000000 tons of nuclear waste, just lying around across the globe. in some cases, leasing, talk sense into the environment. and nobody really knows exactly what to do with it yet, except for the fence. so how did they do it?

and does this mean we've sold the nuclear waste problem? one central when i 1st had the since we're building a nuclear waste deposit side, i thought it was going to be in the middle of nowhere like in the optic circle. for no, it's actually just a 3 hour call right away from healthy municipality of almost 10000 people cold air. which also happens to be home to europe's largest nuclear reactive municipality actually been to the site and was selected from full possible locations. construction started in 2004. right next to the pallet on. sounds quite straightforward, doesn't that? but it's actually really remarkable that this happened because of final disposal facilities was spent. nuclear fuel has keep highly radioactive waste from leaking into the environment for a couple of 100000 years. to put that into perspective, a couple of ice age is,

will have come and gone and that's fine. that needs decades of discussions, planning and careful selection of sites and the feet of engineering. other countries with nuclear power plants have also been looking for their own permanent storage sites. but nobody has even started construction anywhere else. whether your pro or anti nuclear energy, this problem needs a solution fast because the waste is piling up and sometimes inadequate interim storage sides worldwide. but not in finland. also decades of research and construction, the site called and carlo case, whole and finish is about to start operating in the next few years. the project is financed by the finish nuclear power companies, which are probably owned by the finish date. we're ready to go. the trip down takes almost a quarter of an hour. so we've arrived at minus

437 meters on the ground. yeah, definitely feels like a cave all around us is christa line bedrock, a mixture of granite and the rock calls making a tight. and that's the 1st key to why this place was chosen to store the nuclear waste. the age of the rock, it's almost 2000000000 years. it's a rather on fractured rather dry. you know, we don't have a lot of fraud. what a moments in here i'm to your son is the head geologist at the company responsible for the facility. the whole struggle needs to be on worth, in a sense that there is no economical fee, says that future generations will likes to be called from the wrong. but finding the right the rock is just the 1st step because nuclear waste is unlike any other

waste. they have 3 main types, low level intermediates and high level waste. low level waste is usually stuff that came into contact with radioactive material, like protective equipment filters or medical waste. intermediate waste is equipment used in nuclear plants or weapons production like pipes, so insulating material. this can stay radioactive for a couple of 100 years. they are contaminated and disposed of and low level waste sites on the oval ground. up to 99 percent of all nuclear waste falls into that category. the one percent of high level radioactive waste is the most problematic one that consists mostly of spent nuclear fuel rods, but it also includes waste from nuclear weapons production. spend prod, still contain lots of energy enough to him. it heat and remain radioactive up to a 1000000 years, and that ways to sitting and cooling pools or in dry caustics around the world. a

total of over a quarter of a 1000000 metric tons says the international atomic energy agency. that's as heavy as 26 eiffel towers. and some of it is leaking radioactive material. the best solution for handling it safely is bearing a deep on the ground and leaving it to the k for a couple of 100000 years until it isn't dangerous anymore. to prevent the radioactivity from the rods from leaking in the meantime, it needs to be in case properly. in finland, the spent fuel rods are sealed into 5 cent. you meet the 2nd and around 5 meter high copper canisters. they have been transported on the ground with a hoist, pulls of drilled into the bedrock along very long tunnels. the canisters are then put into the holes as in this demo drilling. wow. so deep, you can hear my echo. then the whole is filled up with bentonite play, which is also used as capital into i can absorb ground water that might sleep in

and corrode at the corporate kind of stuff. and finally, the tunnel is back filled with the same material and sealed with a 6 me to 6 concrete slab. as you can see here in this demonstration tunnel, those capsules or canisters are the most controversial part of the whole nuclear waste repository. the problem is, what happens if the band tonight laya, has defects or is damaged and ground water containing sol side and hydrogen does reach the canister. research as have shown in multiple studies that copper could corrode, and the canisters could fail much faster. then the company in charge as calculated, possibly already in a time span of decades. research on this is ongoing and the topic is highly debated in the scientific community. but the stance of the finished nuclear safety authority and pals, eva, is that the uncertainty isn't so high that they would pose

a significant risk. and they stress that the canister is just one protective layer of many condo is meant to house all the future ways to finland's existing nuclear power plants. nor is it clear how future generations will be able to tell that radioactive waste is located here. or if it should be kept unlocked, but that's a question for another video. but even so, finland is way ahead of most nations. maybe because of a unique mentality. one, a role in there might be with bab, correct. my big mindset of fin finished people there as being a kind of a mutual consensus that we need to take care of the waste not to leave them to the future. it's in that race sense. there has been very little pulsation from the society. the

so much ways you $23.00 was the hotel since records began it was also a summer of fire and was have vast areas of land worldwide were destroyed by wild fires and floods. meanwhile, in the canadian town of to tell you to come the edge of the out, take a stone, c catastrophe is unfolding those looking to travel to the end of the world face a bumpy road. it's a 170 lonely kilometers along the dempster highway to reach 2 to yeah, this is where the arctic ocean begins. it's steven and poky ox 1st big project. so you can hardly believe that she landed the spot on destin wastelands team. she's the only one in the canadian british group without an academic background, and the only in the community is concerned about the air does ground

stability rows in waterways. so we're always here to collect that data with the help of the researchers and the scientists everyone into as the village is referred to locally, knows dustin wayne, the canadian permafrost research or has been coming here for almost 20 years. unlike his colleagues to fly in and out to collect data, he recognized early on the importance of getting in business people liked even on board the people that, that lived in the community like the villains that, um, you know, that the knowledge that they have about the land is far, far above any of the knowledge that i have learned in my academic textbooks about processes or climate change or coastal erosion. a training session out on the arctic ocean temperatures stable. the scientists, they're teaching diva learned how to collect data in a way that's useful for research. yeah. both sides to stand to gain. the community

has opportunities and there's also other opportunities for western scientists to want to learn and who are open book, culture and stuff. so it's really good. well, that a good team going dustin wayland takes us to, to kind of it's, it's just off shore and serve to protect the harbor from storms. and that's vital is boats leave from here to bring supplies to all the remote regions round about. but the island is shrinking by 2 meters every year. this summer, the erosion was even worse than usual. dustin warns us to be careful and to jump from one patch of grass to the next areas of deep mud live between them. the shores melting as thick layers of ice are exposed to the sun right here. this, you know, this, this area here with premier, for us, has thought it exposes, exposes this mass of ice. and you can actually see the,

the pure ice underneath. and as soon as that is exposed to the air, it, it just melts, but there's lots of parts of climate change we're not seeing. and 11 big one is the release of greenhouse gases, so are messing in into the atmosphere. so falling permafrost can, can release the decatur organic matter maybe not to the arctic region as heating up faster than the rest of the planet. and the consequences are readily apparent. this little island, that's one kilometer long, is steadily shrinking. this is eroded back one and if it meters, not since june end of june, beginning of july we hear this often when i was a kid things were different. well now that the youth are saying last summer things were different. or, you know, last summer i could walk right across this bank and now it's, it's totally gone and we see this huge stuff failure here. temperatures of almost

30 degrees celsius in the arctic are no longer unheard of. locals can't remember a summer that was as hot and long as this year's residents, including many anyways, families that have lived here for generations are asking how long this can continue . no other company already lost one significant battle with climate change out of the waves crashed against her house for so long that it was no longer safe for her to live in it. the entrance was just a little further off to the side where you are there. and yeah, this is where my house was. during the last year, i was just worried that my windows were going to get smash because of the debris that's being smashed up against the ground. and splashing up to my house it'll, it'll, anne a bird can't. her cousin tried to reinforce the bank next to his property, but already his barn is no longer safe. took to you, i took,

was recently granted millions by the government to preserve the coastline. but all such solutions are only short term. cockneys neighbors are living on borrowed time . eventually they're gonna have to be moved in, in line to it's hard to hard to fathom how and how many people are gonna see this place because of climate change. james martin and craig warren are also part of dustin white lens team and they spend hours strolling around to with their ground penetrating radar. it's part of their efforts to help the integrates better adjust to climate change. their radar measures the thickness of the permafrost, underneath the roads to go so that this would save the community in the long term. but there is a lot of talk about moving the community to a new site. and what we're learning about how infrastructure effects the depths,

dependent for us, could mean that construction of new facilities as a new site would be more robust. the team gap is around the kitchen table for a meeting. this was coming up diva lynn poke. yeah, he's been part of the research team for a long time now. yeah, she even presents her work in international conferences from in winter when the researchers are back at the universities. she monitors the various measuring stations and collect samples here. it's good and i want it pushes me to want to further further my education so that these could continue on and then i could like possibly. so the community that you can do these things here when you get to know, you know, who you working with as humans you, you understand what they need to go with it, what we need to get out for it. you know the outcomes to the community about comes

to the science down before saying good bye, dustin wayland takes us to see a peninsula that's of special interest to researchers. huge walls of price shine in the evening sun up to 40 meters of disappear every year. the wayland team is using time lapse videos to document erosion. this was the layer of massive ice down here. so hey, i got a bit of mess advice retracing back up to feel that we're doing something positive to, to, to gather data, to what with the locals here. and then from then i think and co produced solutions is, is everything to us. and for me as an academic, and as a scientist, that's really what we strive for. the impact of climate change is actually audible . here the inwards have taught dustin whalen and his colleagues about resilience something that is naturally part of their culture. the western scientists are

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