tv Earth Focus PBS January 22, 2019 11:00pm-11:31pm PST
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narrator: on this episode of "earth focus," climate change is forcing people to migrate in search of food and shelter, altering traditional lifestyles across the gln tijuana, mexico, haitians fleeing devastation are building a neighborhood as their eams of entering the united states dwindle. while in mongolia, the traditional herding lifestyle is threatened as drought forces a new generation to the capital in search of opportunities.
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[deriluspeaking] isabel rivera-collazo: we think of migrants and refugees as these people that are coming to take over our country. we don't ope that these are the pe that got to the point that it was so hard for them to survive that it was easier to face deh than to stay. because that'st whey are facing when they decide to get on a boat or they decide to cross a border or they decide to cross the , they're facing their own death, they're facing the death of their loved ones, their children, and that is a better decision thanng behind.
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rivera-collazo:omething said of climate migrants and environmental migrants is that often there is no populationo go back to. the same thing happens with wars. so, those that migrate, they have a very tough time to be able to continue their way of life, especially if they are left alone within a city or a place that they don't know and there are no other people from their own country.
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narrator: tijuana is adapting to an influx of haitian immigrants who are testing the city's ability to support them. in ula the capital of mongolia, more than 600,000 nomadic herders have moved to the ceaving a deeply- rooted lifestyle now threatened imate change. [men speaking indistinctly] mitsuaki toyoda: people in mongole been practicing herding for centuries since the era of genghis khan. en today, out one-quarter of the population live a nomadic life.
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(rousing music) [narrator] the shallow, gin-clear waters of the bahamas are a tropical paradise, a favorite spot for sport fisherman and scuba divers alike. these waters are also one of the few areas in the world where humans can regularly spend time with dolphins underwar. [researcher] this is where we get the information abo what the life of the wild dolphin is really about. [narrator] the wild dolphin roject's research directo heand founder, dr. denise ing, has dedicated her career to immersing herself in the dolphin's world. e] [denisn the wild we deal with all sorts of challenges. number one is weather. if we can't get to where th live, we can't see them number two is finding them, 'cause they might move 20, 30 miles in a day, and it's a big ocean.
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