to my parents wanted me to become a civil service, but i didn't like the idea of getting such an old fashioned job and being stuff making money, having fun with not fools. and so i'm seeing jobs, december thirties on the w, the there are nearly $10000.00 earth quakes every year. and another $50.00 to $60.00 volcanic eruptions to that nuclear tests. we know this because they're highly sensitive monitoring stations around the world that sometimes scientists encounter a mystery. call them and the more on this edition of dw science show. welcome to tomorrow. today. here in the middle of the forest in south west and germany does a very special research center. the black forest observe a tree o b s o. it's an ideal location for measuring size. make waves,

the vibrations that travel through the us, the somebody's moments is a house in an abandoned mind, deep within the mountain sides. perfect conditions for detecting even the faintest rumbles beneath the surface. the thing hit peeve was deep inside the, surrounded by black forest, granite spots a very strong and dense rock which shields all sized moment has from outside influence. the temperature here is very stable and they're all pressure looks stuck, shield to size, moments has from atmospheric pressure variations and obviously i guess it's geophysicist thomas fault the guy and his colleague rudo smith must need to take a moment to the saw he's moment says which most the record signals from of quakes box in september 2023. the somebody's moment has picked up and i'm familiar signal . it was nothing like an earthquake, which a p is brief bus from the sound track. the signal was more like a continued miss middleton. this how to how many i know this is one month of the

day, so converted into sound. when you books in this room, you can tell streets away that this signal, this somebody's mac wave is highly unusual for chrome, is present. there is not as quakes to find one, go see the big ones at 1st, he couldn't listen to the sound but noticed the unusual vibrations in the recordings . it was a sunday and he was at home. he took a look at the data coming in from the b, f o and was puzzled bibles. he saw how the biggest twice that i really wanted, whether something might be broken. so i'd check the day. so coming in from another measuring station far away in the us like and so the same signal that, oh hunger show from that is confirmed. it wasn't a defect of thoughtful husband, but it was real class, at least it was a strong signal and it was detectable. well,

why and i that was different from anything i've ever seen before, but the sooner gotten these content, it was an unusual study. also, nation that was persisting for non, usually long time. 7 days after it was supposed to tech did it was still registering on the sized moment to the, to do your scientists decided to collaborate with other researchers from around the world to determine it's thoughtful. after a few days the trail, let them to the dickson fields on green lens, eastern coast. around the same time, the size make signal appeared. a 200 meter high megabytes. you know me how to code . it was triggered by the collapse of a mountain peak holding a mess of lamps light into the fuel. the danish geologist, christians spend a vig suspect to the connection between the 2 events. we've been work now for good . yes. trying to combine these 2 and it's one siding phenomenon to find out houses

. the giant land slanders odami code crossed this very strange size, may signal that has never been obsessed before. this rain dots are filled with voice, represents the fuel with the lamb slowly generated a mass of waves that searched out of the feud phenomena on the other side. and then the votes have pushed forward by the land slide, search toward the officer, rule of the fuel pumped into that hole and bounced off that should for ton i'm to bounce back to get come to me. so the waves was smashing back and forth in the narrow fjords, creating a standing wave. a say she's trying to stay and then i'll try to recreate to the effect with this room stay on the tour. you can once these, this will be this. so solution generated songs make energy causing ground vibrations that were detected across the world and had to go like a single tom. it's likely that land slides and the take will become more frequent

is the results of climate change. just below the bank and see peak that part of the collapse. there was a glacier in the gully and the glacier retreated into a you know, the past decades. and that indigo means that the, the mountain top last it support and collapsed. so we can kind of trace it back to climate change that we see this in a new area that i think where we haven't looked before means that we have to look a lot broader for these types of the climate change. the just asked us that we have the serial and slides in the central west present where they've cost human lives. so the next time a land slide leads to a standing wave, the scientists here in the black forest observe a tree, will have a better understanding of what caused it record heat year after year and 2024 is no exception. according to the european climate agency, it's virtually certain to be the hottest here on record. for the 1st time,

global temperatures have surpassed 1.5 degrees celsius above pre industrial levels are glaciers or melting. can they be saved? and what would happen if they disappear? the time being through snowing ice on the planet's tal is peak in a world without glaciers. this could become a distant memory without ice to service clue mass of walls of rock could crumble. this outline hut perched on the switch place through make disappear. and if the rocky debris falls into the lake formed by melt water, we could have catastrophic flooding which could even clean lights the a world without glaciers. what would that mean? that's where they think it. if it's no glaciers would signal a catastrophe. but that would only be the beginning things just by then we'd have triggered multiple deployment, tipping points. and global heating would be so extreme that life on earth would be

very uncomfortable. no. can you look about the, the to take what would be left as a barren desert of debris? and if that's the only budget taishan we'd begin to reclaim the area surprisingly quickly within a few years or decades. grass this month and eventually small trees would start to grow moles from punch. but how clean volume of offices this ice field and alaska is melting at an alarming rate. but in new green ecosystem as emerging to take its place. so nature as a whole would survive if glaciers disappear, but it would be a problem for us. human pollutants once locked beneath the ice with sleeping to our drinking water and contaminate the soil without not water draught would take hold. regents like the perusing andes and central asia with loose or only 4th of water in the summer crops, whitfield and people would be forced to be dropped as water levels

drop. many rivers would no longer support shipping. meanwhile, other areas would face the opposite problem too much water rising c of us would be the biggest problem explains mitchell has them 2 heads the world glacier monitoring service along with glaciers, ancient ice sheets formed over thousands of years, would also mount it. only like if all the world glaciers melted sea levels would rise by about half a metres vehicle. but the real threat comes from the mass of ice chains in greenland. and an article on agreements ice alone could raise the levels by 7 meters for me. the west and article could add another 7 meter and mostly for me, an east and article, nearly 50 meters arise of just 3 meters and major coastal cities like casablanca and dubai would be flooded. mom by would

likely vanish under water. could humanity for 5, a world without glacier. as we have like a patient there would be a negative impact. we'd have to adapt, especially with respect to managing water resources, electricity production, and river transport on full. still humanity would survive if glaciers disappear. i believe a lot to mathias hasa spent years studying the consequences of retreating glaciers . the changes to the environment and our ways of life would be profound. without glaciers to store water, we might need to build huge reservoirs and our place there would still be rainwater to store in some places even more than today. and in massively expanded railway system could take the place of last shipping round the is this, the future were destined for clean the inside cuz it is the sheet. climate models clearly shows that staying below the 2 degree climate target to preserve

most closer to the middle. so, but if the temperatures rise by $5.00 to $8.00 degrees celsius, but all, all architectures would be con, only glitch and wrecked and this worst case scenario. glaciers will be extinguished 2 or 300 years, but even if we meet our climate target races will continue to shrink. so we'll need to adapt either way. in the meantime, there are steps we can take to help preserve our collections. for new products, we need to stop just talking and start acting on a fee. for instance, driving 250 meters with a gasoline engine mounts one killer of glacier. i like to. but the good news is by not driving those 250 meters. we can save that cuba revised linked. so in series, humans as a species could survive a world without glaciers. but whether that happens is also up to us. to slow down climate change. we'll also need to on do some of the damage already done

in the us around 3000000 or send oil wells or rusting away fuel have been properly plugged and many are releasing significant amounts of the greenhouse gas methane forced in wells oil wells abandoned by their operators are scattered across the u. s. landscape like this one in the wide open fields of montana in the countries north west. there over 3000000 orson welles nationwide. most whenever properly the commission and many are now leaching police this into the water and air. curtis chuck is an engineer in 2019. he launched a well done foundation which has been working to plug or offend wells. so this is an open well bore. and this is one of the 1st wells

that i came across in montana like i was embarrassed for the oil and gas industry that in any universe that it was okay to walk away and leave something like this behind. so when i started the 1st do the calculation of method in out of these as like, you know, as a head scratcher, it's like, well, wait a minute, this can be rice, methane, a greenhouse gas has an even greater impact on global warming than carbon dioxide. curtis has trailers filled with instruments he uses to monitor hundreds of wells in smell, the gas line over here at the moment. he's measuring methane emissions or a single well, can i get as much gas as thousands of cars? in addition to methane, there's all kinds of other bad stuff that's in there. things like saying and propane and view, teen pen chains and hack sayings, which are known cancer,

causing agent slugging. all these boar holes will take years, but the foundation is determined to make a start. after months of preparation, they're ready to tackle this well the the pipes are screwed together, forming a long straw that reaches the wells, bottom 200 meters below the surface. plugging a single well, costs $80000.00, we actually use that straw to set the submit all the way to the bottom 1st and then we'll draw the straw back out as that cement section is coming up. the wellborn cost is like owns the land, where the spell is located for families sold, the oil rides here many years ago. as a farmer,

i didn't even know anything was coming out of that. so usually you can't smell anything. you don't, you can't see anything coming out even in the winter time. there is that steam or anything, so he died. i didn't know there was anything going into the atmosphere. kathy, his great grandfather started drilling for oil on this land, and the 1920 is by the 1950s. he began selling the oil rights today. several different companies are drilling for oil on the family's land. i don't often know what company is pumping or working the difference in different spots on my land. it's changes a lot, some, some companies go bank wrapping it and the band of them in another company might move in and try again and start on something that oil well, but it's changed so many times over the years that you, it's hard to keep track what's happened here is comment. many oil companies choose to file for bankruptcy rather than cover the cost of decommissioning,

their wells. back at the site, the pipe is in place and the cement is ready to be pumped in the end of the day, we'll see submit coming back to the service. and that means that the gas is gone, the emissions it stops and it's a great success. one well at a time and only $2000000.00 more to go over the next year. curtis shock plans to plug $200.00 wells. it's a massive undertaking, but only a drop in the bucket when it comes to the countries or for an oil wells. methane is odorless, so we can't smell it. but most methane used in industry and daily life contains an additive that makes it smell like rock megs. methane is highly combustible, so it can cause explosions. and it's

a health risk. he knows is that can detect methane leaks, could help. electronic nose is already in use today, like in this private garden. the senses inside the device smith's out since molecules in the, in 24 hours a day, the electronic nose. it starts up across some, a refinery in southern germany. this facility process is crude oil into cassadine and diesel fuel. occasionally, otis can be detected on the refinery grounds like the smell of crude oil. it's not a pleasant sense, but it's not home for. hydrogen sulfide, on the other hand is much more dangerous. even small amounts can irritate the airways, while higher concentrations are extremely hazardous. that's why 9 electronic noses on duty here working around the clock. they continuously

sundays have to meet as lemma. he closely monitored his every electronic nose, including the one in the nearby gun. all of these e noses function using the same principle as some few for she does. and so one for about we use for different types of senses each using different measurement principles to detect specific substance grades and stuff group did it to me to do this stuff group or the green line represent sofa compounds found in crude oil. on the case, the you know, and the orange lines indicate hydrocarbons like gasoline and diesel been seen what a visa on people with the blue line represents gases such as me thing which is a key component of crude oil. when the nose is display green, that means there are no significant changes in the air indicating that the facility is authorizing normally,

mainly because it was so electronic noises could help this a catastrophe. but what happens when they smell something unusual? because lemme explains. otis can escape giving tasks like tank cleaning, for instance, at tank 7. an electronic nose is monitoring the am. if dangerous substances are detected, the nose changes color and trigger is an alarm. because the door to the all me off in for this indicates a definite change in the as composition product. so i would notify the production department and have them check the area for any potentially select with alsco. for me. i'm tongue. see, the refinery has a team of oh, to detection specialists on stand by for situations like this, monica who josh how relies on to tools and mobile knows and own sense of smell,

to use as the mobile egos to collect some data on site transmission. it live to massage lemme chosen, inspects the area herself, taking a careful smith via cuz we, we also rely on our own nose is using our sense of smell to detect anything unusual yet to give a shift because we're familiar with a sense we monitor and know what crude oil typically smells like, it's easier for us to tell if an oda is abnormal or completely normal. monica hotel show has received special life training and can detect even the slightest nuances incent. it's been my examination is complete when neither i nor the mobile e nose detect any unusual sense of on them forward to protect workers and residents. electronic noses and human noses form the perfect team or

even the smartest machines still require some human help. but the shift toward autonomous systems continues. the latest generation of machines is intelligent, flexible, mobile, and even capable of learning. the 50 volts is on its way to look. this will turn on this vehicle, a hybrid of car and robot follows instructions from senses embedded in the ground. today, its task is watering trees. yeah, it must be here. when we just saw it was the task watering. it may look simple because it, it involves highly complex processes from 64, the city bought and drove out and pivoted on it. it's just, it is so healthy. it can even leave diagonal. they're, they're kind of, you know, it uses positional data from the sensor because it receives its task and then

proceeds to go to the assign trees. i'm all stuck on on, uh, just uh, these involved this highly automated machine is capable of much more. the developer believes that one day the city bolt will be able to trim hedges, collect garbage and deliver packages. the autonomous battery powered vehicle has a top speed of 50 kilometers our. the city board will be valuable during labor shortages, but that's just positive. it's potential. the broad goal is to address one of the biggest challenges of today and the future. this autonomous vehicle aims to make mobility emission free while also reducing traffic on the roads. you know, i'm not investing lucas. we felt inspiration from the most efficient logistical system, and there is one from the human circulatory system. these yet well concept involves using controlling software to coordinate and control. the said, you know,

it's like marian that we're on for allowing us to reduce traffic can just on my current lead. the city board is still in its on the jump training phase, the stadium here and frank, that functions as a kind of the board tree under controlled conditions with minimal traffic, few of people and to tele, operate to monitoring everything in the background terms if you between we have a variety of activities going on here. there's trades, people coming and going curious businesses and families out for a walk with a baby strollers, just stopping by taking the phone. going. these are fairly typical conditions, but it's also a controlled environment. there are no faults moving calls and everyone is mindful of each on the other one. you could say i'm a human component ensuring safety and missile tournament system because they'll always be situations and autonomous vehicle can't handle on it. so it doesn't come that is just gonna be, but it's similar to humans belong to you lives,

the more experienced you game. that's what we're practicing here. for now, we tell the city bought what the objective just for is. but in the future, the goal is for this process to be fully automated using a i can start to develop a has a vision by 24. see of in traffic jams will be a thing of the past. instead, switching thoughts equipped with sensors and seamlessly connected 55, g will glide quietly through our streets read, why do you have a science question? send it to us as a video, text or voice mail. if we answer it on the show, you'll get a little surprise this the thank you. so come on, just ask this your question comes from bulky, sho, in south africa. what is noise? is this noise? for this?

and what about this? the lessons and expected sounds usually aren't perceived as noise. noise is sound, that bothers us. what qualifies as noise can vary the same sound one person enjoys might be noise to someone else. noise is also related to loudness. what a sound exceeds a certain volume is perceived as to loud. sound levels are measured in decibels, or d. b, for example, taking clock is around 30 decibels traffic, about 70 decibels, and a jet engine at take off reaches a staggering $140.00 decibels. it also plays a role. high pitched or shrill sounds are generally perceived as more unpleasant than lower pitched ones. duration is another factor. the longer we're exposed to a sound, the more strain it places on our hearing. noise is also sound that we're unable to

avoid. sound waves travel in all directions, so it's not all that easy to escape the sound that's too loud can cost permanent hearing damage faster than you might expect. and constant exposure to noise also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. noise protection can help minimize the negative effect. this protection can be either direct or indirect. direct noise protection focuses on reducing noise edits source . for example, researchers are working on sound dampening road surfaces and noise reducing tires. speed limits can also do a lot to reduce traffic noise. indirect noise protection works by interrupting the spread of sound waves. sound barriers along busy roads are one example, and tunnels can also indirectly reduce traffic noise. and

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