tv Preserving Peatlands Deutsche Welle May 10, 2024 9:30am-10:01am CEST
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many on including the cost of survival. how do they do in the secret life? but stats may 22nd on the d, w the, the new still easy. sometimes even menissi. then you got dogs. a scene is don't places. they often the settings imagine mysteries. it was 50 tails human being destination home, centuries was powerless. consequences. absolutely. turn the systems from the 6 carbon sources of carbon. and so that's going to really exacerbate, essentially climate change. do you need ecosystem store vast amounts of carbon but
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the potential has been overlooked for quite some time. these lands are like loans of the world. we could say that the the saw whips of life. and these whips flies around to stretch it. new methods could save the world's peak lands as well as cell plus the the strips of green in rural germany, something is growing here. the could help rescue bolts. most of germany's wetlands have been drained and our unrecognizable pond requests a gallery of mathias crates. want to show what's being lost and how to get it back in right, 3,
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that was quicker than my thoughts was. say regularly take samples with the pro of the twin towers. go to heighten on to the lower down. that looks good, but everything above where it's dry is low. so with this, 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 the comes in addition to that says it's all scottsdale holmquist, this, the composition worries, the ecologist, pete is made up of dead plants, which sunk into shallow, slightly a city water. this oxygen poor environment doesn't allow the debris to decompose the carbon stays port. the draining exposes the last to oxygen, which stops the composition and finds it to the element. it has been released as comp and dioxide and what was what they tell and keep lands on like probably more. and then they can do so much. this is the bio diversity alone is very special. and
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they told me to call but, and sing the surfaces. that was why it's so important that we protect. so people and i mean don't just living ones, but also the ones we drained in that time. grace, a gallery has been function for pete lance for 20 years. she focuses on form a bugs which she know here, new studies, but also works to restore through requesting. but it can only work if the farmers who live off the lat agree. germany has around $1800000.00 hectares of peat 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, pete lands now contributed 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
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a gaiety wants to turn these climate chillers back into climate saves. together with local farm is a difficult and muddy task. the she and her team of researching how crops could be produced on the wetlands for the gross found my center the did you find it? you know, yes to 62. they find spectrum most at this measuring station most may seem underwhelming, but the style re green plants could help save the planet. they're incredibly useful for what she calls polluted culture. this comes from the top comes from parlors, which is nice and this is woman full motion. so agriculture on went both lines to small and vice versa. gouter studied biology and was intrigued by this most as even as a student,
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the usefulness was the whole 9 at the time. she's currently working on an instruction manual for polluted culture, which i don't want to do saw you and stuff 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, of cultured plants by professional garden centers and for commercial vegetable fields. but out hung up, the piece is hosting our wetlands. she wants to replace the p use in flats. so with bulk most growing mos 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, just put the lab for each be
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a heavy of this polluted culture system was blown at the gloss fold minus into which is we chris, a gallery examines his favorite plant this, this here the tough most be this is the pete most volume. yes. we want me to dry it 1st and then weigh it so that we know how much a farmer could positives and unsuccessfully, unable to talk, and to come to of the segment must as have been moonless potential for use implants. so we'll talk most the most is benefit the climate, flight and fall from 1st they can replace piece and hold a culture, a renewable material, replacing a fossil fuel. that's the cost of money. and secondly, pete lens would be requested to cultivate the most of which would mean that the
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high emissions that currently come from drain cleveland's with the i think in the lab tests go well as to the field trials. she's confident that they can develop a system. so much production, this is where the ecological economists, sabine and fishermen comes in the job. the 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 facing new areas will be needed to grow public also and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of heck does not. so to will need to convince farms and landowners, plus the investment costs to high with the $6.00 ones cost. which is why the next total for the research is, is funding bias. perhaps i can convince a god and center there's a north. finland has units, most extensive paid lands home to red animal
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implants, bases but these bio types also died as i was stripped mind for fuel or drains to make room for forest plantations. taylor most and then has been working to mitigate the damage. he's a climate scientist and activist fund 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 and he's nice. he's been land, it almost feels like lino, so he's kind of a person. you'll see some kind of a presence here. for example, this would piece that i'm now looking at. it may potentially be 2 or 3000 years old . i often want to think that these lines are if the memory of feeling loved without most and in his normal profit, snow change. so
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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 are the tests, told us everything we have needed to learn in order to make this a national program. and from that we started to learn and test and innovate. how can you restore large beat land system. busy a huge projects of a 110 hic tests 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 disastrous results. there was a face that event and of course these impacts to climate that because they are active copland sources. even after the mining has stopped payroll, most students,
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home village also still the fix 10. columbus is down stream. you know, the monte china is a fisherman and most students, long time frame the issue 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 nearly destroyed the nature and his livelihood. and not to die. i saw fish lying dead along the shore, municipal, 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 in and so to be lee,
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while the it is vital to listen and understand the best part of what a, not 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 it's a model for damaged areas of the and 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
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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 reclaiming the area of to decades of exploitation. the measurements show the size is being worth is the drain peak land me said 400 tons of c o 2 annually. but the restore the 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
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productive for pete lands or actually fall better at storing comp and trees compared to help with switch climate goals. we say that we have 5 to 7 years to act, to stop leasing from this world based masons. and we are working on every part of that nationally important very by system and, and it's catchment to restore it back to health. the excavation has to feel own drainage channels to we with the bulk a difficult task for pete land that covers more than a 100 heck tests. but it's the only way for water to stop collecting again the most and in develops taylor my plan for each whitland you have to be very carefully
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thinking where we're putting the actions and what simple, how deep or beat the dams should be enabled. that right, well the level, the painstaking, what has now being transitioned into a unique system for restoring wetlands across finland. snow change over sore about 66, rewarding projects through 2023 finance, through donations and investors, a demanding mission, but also highly rewarding. wisdom is extremely happy about nature's return to lean and so my good sleep is 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
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back in germany, the researches from gross fault on how those to find out how to have both most has been faring as plants, soil. grace had godek and sabina vision. a curious to hear the results a tie 5 reads most the research department at the lowest sites and the chamber of agriculture has put the scientists recommendations to the test on top of it's not too much. gotcha 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, you know, it's, you know, really exciting and very encouraging for long because it for a multi point. but the 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. these are
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stuff to see what the odds of this material is. ideal, this will be this great property. you yourself, could you a nice the cost is a problem. zoe. the on the right now on the comb, compete with peas. economically concrete. and it's just too expensive to grow. is, is i don't know to toilet is not gotten some, but the potential is huge. what pete is usually use implant soils in germany, replacing it would require growing most in around $40000.00 tech chairs. just re wishing a small fraction, 2.2 percent of germany's pete lands could meet the demand great doubting types farm that's will also see the potential movies you want us not to reach. does my vision? is that many or 3 and used to lose a culture most up straight to, to cope side of that many farmers say, yes you and that's what this is. you know, ton of system need to make sense here to see what this information feet. lance can
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yield more than most is as individual build wisdom, pomeranian scientists researching and most of mass plants twice. our cat tails are 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 growth even when there's a drought and they can cope with heavy rain plants, a sturdy and an ideal building material. and how did tune this whole thing cause you to see what people want. so construction installation materials support structure with ad gaps which insulates well in this very light, you just stick. these walls could also be used to make load bearing elements, as some of the construction sector have already seen the potential of the broadcast
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plan. this is tanisha. i am plus demo d i'm for the, for this isn't blowing installation materials. hotel, it can be used like cellulose flakes or would find buns in this in quite enough these poke pool. 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 type dish um easily and the researches now and these pioneers and policies that support them and 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 am convinced that this is a great opportunity to create synergies between people and protection. sustainable agriculture and the supply renewable rule. materials call and that's what we need
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to address climate change in creating livable future calls to help them. so when you collaborate to is just a few kilometers away. harvest time in the re way to people in the farmer having for each grows more grass. sho, i'm just checking to see if that fails. so top most of during the recent right, you had some target which has been harvesting more grass from these fields. if we 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 movement is tied to this as well. so i can contribute to the crime and apply to how i solve this problem that came out fuse results as more
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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'm a fuss issue, walk on, so it has to take notes between bit by bit, the points where you 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, one problem in the, or took the step to install this heat in prompt as a part of your project and how to you upfront, so tight and send it to load for you that's pulled her tooth. and that's a pretty high low to the full turns around $4000.00 barrels of dried move, cross a cheese when he's buying a mess. heating plant, the carbon footprint is negative because burning the carlos doesn't commit more c o
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2. and it's still worthwhile growing. and the re wishing folk absorbs additional common sense of what central part of a lot of these and listening for the guy spies, myers said it was always very generous 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. uh, best of luck with the entire town now. benefits from the innovative family business . they have bio mass heating plants, supplies of school, several office buildings, and about $500.00 departments with affordable hate, even amidst an energy cost system. 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 climate biologist naturally griffith and soil scientist,
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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 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. naturally griffith, i'm just seeing a groundbreaking project on how plat temporary 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 teacher 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 equal systems, coal congress,
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he's up to pete, simulating the different climates in each class. how. how will the both behave at 9 degrees of global warming? 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, the oil, the organic components and the pete decompose. and the more harmful c o 2 gets released, a disaster for the clock or mean really increases the rate of decomposition and the feet when. and so we absolutely turn the eco systems from things of carbon and sources of carbon and the additional source of carbon dioxide and nothing that must do, that's really not well accounted for these global models that predict the future climate
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the task helps develop and up to my scenarios to better assist the impacts of climate change fail here for another 3 years. back back in the ground. randy poker 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 into the future. and if we want to mitigate or limit the ability of our eco systems like plans 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
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the you in integral of mental panel on climate change or i, p c. c. reports were very proud of the impact for make and you know, unbeknownst 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. start thinking about the product and service. these ecosystems 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, commons sing,
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