Cattails also regrow every 90 days after being mown and can be turned into pellets for wood pellet burning stoves. They also filter pollutants in the water. They are awesome for agroecology.
@@BVasquezp We absolutely need to stop burning thing for energy but as you can see . . . it's going to be a very slow process. They knew the cost, they spent the whole video describing it to us . . . then went home and threw some wood in the oven. I'm sure they do not have other options and THAT is where we need to start.
I keep saying to myself how DW is just.... great! Compared to what I see in the USA, this is a breath of fresh air, calm, collected, facts. Not all opinions of news that counts as news along with book promotions etc. DW is for the mind. Thank you for all you do. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪
Agreed! I watch a lot of Amanpour and Company and anyone in Canada has seen Sesame Street and all the kids shows we all grew up watching, I love PBS! I hope it continues to be PBS... @@axwapples
Whether they are carbon sinks or not Pete bogs/bog wetlands are unique biomes that are important wildlife stops/habitats and need to be protected like any such important places.
Near my village in India, a 175.5-hectare wetland, which once served as a natural habitat for migratory birds, was transformed into a fish farm. They use tube wells to artificially maintain water levels in the fish pond, leading to increased emissions.
as a side note: those tree's that are cut down to make room for bogs are prime for mass timber/glulam construction. essentially the wood is glue laminated together to create beams stronger than steel, and replaces a significant amount of concrete and steel necessary for construction. completed mass timber construction continues to act as a carbon sink even after the tree is cut down. theres a calculator on naturally:wood where you can calculate the impact of your planned project.
Awesome vid DW. Usually I don't have the patience for watching something this long but this is so interesting it felt like it was 10 minutes. So informative too!
@@DWDocumentary do you guys interact with NDR Doku ? I see some of videos share same themes. And thank you for the awesome and interesting topics, Germany no. 1 in documentaries 🤓
Fascinating. I knew that properly managed peat bogs in Europe are/were extremely useful to people, particularly in the past, while also fixing carbon. This documentary shares an extremely interesting perspective around this subject. Proper, careful management of resources and nature is the best thing for people, nature and the global environment.
@@DWDocumentary Let's take Norway for an example, when my grandparents was little, there was almost no trees on the mountains, now there is trees everywhere and its overgrowing everywhere... The earth havent been this green since before the ice age. We have 0.04% Co2 in the atmosphere, and if it falls down to 0.02% all plantlife dies... There is no Co2 crises, but look at the magnetic northpole, how much weaker it gets every decade and how much faster and faster it's moving closer to Siberia/India... That's the barriere that protects the planet from the suns gama rays etc.
Did you expect the climate to stay stable all the time? Guess what, its been changing alot the last 10.000 years as it allways have been... Or we would be stuck in the ice age still and i would have had 14km of ice over my house right now... The climate models shows only a 1.4 rise the last 100 years, and its predicted to be 1.4 the next hundred too. and there is no signs of more extreme weather now than before... For 100 years ago, 500.000 died becuse of the weather each year, now its just a few 1000... You can find buildings up to 120m under the sea level still today, meaning the water have risen 120meter since they got built in the first place. The earth is moving in cycles. We are at the end of one, meaning the magnetic noth and south pole are moving faster and faster to the east, and the more east it goes the weaker the magnetic field gets, then we get less protection from both the sun and meteorits etc. In about 10.000 years, the Sahara will be green again, and Scandinavia will lay under kilometers with ice once again. @@yanlopez674
Science-based projects to restore nature with huge potential for carbon sequestration? It's hard to find something better! This fills me with hope. Thank you.
Wow. Not only a rewilding pioneer, but a very successful one on a huge scale! And of course, excellent practical work by the two researchers to fast-track carbon storage and rewilding in industrial agriculture areas by developing sustainable commercially viable farming practices of native flora. And finally incredible heart by the conscientious farmer/farmers who massively applied these methods at their own expense without any special subsidies! In the West, most farmers get massive subsidies for even the most destructive and lucrative agriculture.
this is just waste of effort and space . most of oxigen is produced in the ocean water covers the majority of the planet . also rewilding is retarded . you spend centuries adjusting enviroment to be suitable for humans just to fuck it up
Remove all the water from the landscape, what could possibly go wrong? All we ever had to do was nothing, just leave things alone. Other than undoing some of what we’ve done, the remedy to climate change is humans doing nothing. Yet this is seemingly impossible for people to fathom. Human being, not human doing!
Yep!! We can find other things to do!! At home...maybe all the rich richs will die from no creative brain just money makers...making money!! I say go eat your 💰 😂
0:24: 🌱 Peatlands are important ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, but they have been decimated and drained, contributing to climate change. However, new methods like polluti culture could help restore and protect peatlands. 5:23: 🌱 Researchers are developing a new agriculture system using bog moss to replace peat in plant soil, which has the potential to revolutionize plant growth and benefit the climate. 9:12: 🌍 Decades of mining and exploitation in Tero Mustang's home Village caused severe damage to the landscape and rivers, impacting the climate and livelihoods. 14:45: ✅ The potential of peatlands and marsh plants in addressing climate change and creating a sustainable future. 19:46: 🌍 The experts in grossfile share their efforts in solving the climate problem by using resources more sustainably and restoring peatlands. 23:28: 🌍 Peatlands, which cover just 3% of the world's land area, store twice as much carbon as the world's forests, making them crucial for climate protection. Recap by Tammy AI
Florida could sure use some canal removal and swamp rewetting but instead they are expanding the canal networks in the name of flood control because the disrupted bogs no longer retain, clean and slowly release water following heavy rainfall events, ugh.
In India, with the excessive rainfall, maybe we can create peatlands on unused lands. Not only would this help in utilizing the excess water but also act as a carbon sink to curb emissions!
20:30 there is a way of greatly improving what they do. The biomass can be "burned" without oxygen and under pressure (pyrolysis) and that way there are no emissions of CO2 and the obtained byproducts (biochar) are very good as fertilizers.
This TH-cam channel needs to upload more Agriforestry and nature based wildlife preservation videos! I need to figure put how to fix my southern virginia pine forests not touched since 1970! Huge swaths of animals and other plant species have disappeared due to tobacco growth and excessive pine forest growth and harvesting for profit!
I once saw a graph about the effect CO2 has on the temperature in increments of 20 ppm. It pretty much looks like a negative log graph. This means the more CO2 we put into the atmosphere the less effect it has on increasing temperature. The first 100ppm had the most effect....but one has to go back thousands of years just to get below 200ppm and I have read that below 150ppm plants start to die. So the point in time, when CO2 concentrations made a real difference in temperature, was before humans were around anyways. This carbon footprint stuff is an exercise in futility and a waste of money. The climate is changing for other reasons and we need to spend more time making sure we are adapted to these changes. I don't have much confidence in those parameterized models which just spit out a rainbow of results.
Fascinating, I knew bogs & swampy/marshlike wetlands were less common now, but 98%? And how important they are compared to what most assume! This should be wider-spread...
the other side of the story theyre not telling you is that pete moss is low in nurtients, all it does it hold water well, but then even in potting mix they will then add perlite because the pete holds water too well. but even if it holds water well you need nurtients from oragnic matter (compost) the way simpler method of making potting soil would be to mix compost with native dirt. compost is easily made from waste materails which you can get many forms like wood chips, leaves, grass clippings, sea weed, food scraps carboard from a city easily. this whole endeavor is a fools errand, even if you got a new moss sustainably harvested it and transported it, yeah and? you don't have nutrition you need compost for nutrition.
To all the teams involved; no language exists to sufficiently express my thanks & admiration. To everyone else; cover yourself in insect repellent & visit bogs- truly beautiful habitats.
The science of whether harvesting from peat lands will disrupt carbon sequestration is extremely fuzzy. There are tons of debates on how soil carbon accumulates and how it releases even within the scientific community. DW presenting this as if it’s settled matter (esp the biomass powered plant) is not prudent. Solutions for the consumption driven carbon emissions problem are not simple.
Another wonderful documentary coverage video about preserving peat land for reducing climate change through adoption scientific researching result by farmers whose feeling responsibilities to ward's theirs climate ... return the climatic healthy...it was a great content...thank you a remarkable ( DW ) documentary channel...
It doesn't matter until China's emissions and India's emissions are handled. Notice the severe avoidance of that topic. It doesn't matter how many bogs are reintroduced in Germany when China emits more carbon in a day than that entire bog has contained.
China can easily improve their ecology by simply building more inscinerators to burn plastic waste. They have big GDP and people know how to segregate trash. Less plastic means less metane from marine life dying due to plastic pollution. But India's corruption, lack of proper infrastructure and knowledge of eco demeanor makes any change very difficult.
Here I asked in the chat GPT how many areas are needed for cultivation in order to provide fuel for, for example, Poland, and there it is indicated that it is necessary to plant up to three thirds of the area of the country, and the time to grow it is quite a lot, since 1 m2 grows up to 6 kg of moss in a year, and this is about one liter of bioethanol. It should be taken into account that not such a large part of transport in the EU is adapted to run on bioethanol. As for food, the situation here is quite good and you can try to grow it, as it can become a profitable and ecological business.
if only all climate activists were like the guy in this doc,what they lack is the essential element: Wisdom. I hope this method works altho indeed it seems very expensive to be applied all over the world!! still we need other creative cheap solutions
My book Pluvicopia details how to produce massive amounts of water from the rain cycle when humidity is stagnant, and drought conditions prevail. There are many ways to capture carbon with water and new arable land, but developing vast new wetlands would potently sequester carbon at the needed rate. Is there much research on wetlands in semitropical lands, where the process is hugely productive? The Sahara, US West, Northern Mexico, The Middle East, and the Stans areas; once you refill the Aral Sea, what can you do with excess flow from the Amu-Darya. New wetlands around the Aral Sea might be great places to sequester carbon in wetlands and Bogs. It is a natural Bog area since there is no drainage. Does anyone know about that?
Lining the sides of freeways and hyways with native plants and trees and in deserts cactus yucca and bushes. All of that can help slow drivers do to well who wants to hit a tree going 80mph when the speed limits was 65 give yourself time to slow so its like 40mph when you hit or slower. Also all the plant life will reduce the lights of drivers going the opposite direction reducing car crashes. This will also reduce flooding and wind co2 as well as reduce noise pollution and ground and air pollution.
You forgot the potential for pollinators to feed and travel along highways if you let flowers to bloom, it'll look nicer too. And minimum of 50% of lawns should be returned back to natural state.
This is very, very bad idea. This kind of road will be really expensive to maintain and manage. You cannot just mow it few times a year, you going to need specialized machines which slow down or even block the traffic when at work. One stronger wind and broken branches or even fallen trees will block big stretch of the road. The road should give you good visibility, not "a maze feeling". More you see, safer everyone is. Moreover, you just build a perfect fire source just next to your car's exhaust pipe - what could possibly go wrong. You really don't want to find yourself in a fire tunnel, with no way out.
DW science documentaries have become my "go-to" library for my science courses. Only one thing I wish scientists would have mentioned: any PESTS that could potentially damage peatlands? Anyone in the audience knows? Thanks!!!
a dry peat land is highly flammable and once it starts to burn, it doesn't stop. here in Russia we have a huge problem with that, in summer some cities and region, apart from forest fires, drown in smog, coming undeground. it's acked tone of co2 every year, not to say about damage to a local environment by constant exposure to toxic gases
As a Canadian, I wonder how big a deal it will be to restore a few marshes in Germany. My guess is that if Germany was completely covered in bogs, they would have about half as many bogs as we do, 1/4 that of Russia if you are lucky. It looks to me like the problem and solution that you are proposing will make no difference to the earth at all. Your scale is so small it means nothing at all on a planetary scale. Certainly there can be local benefits and those are worth highlighting but to say that this will save the world is utter nonsense. Restart your nuclear plants and stop destroying towns for coal if you want less carbon in the atmosphere Either that or take over USA and make better policies on a large scale
I can't think of a national broadcaster, who produces such high quality and frequent video content on TH-cam. This is not even from their 'environment' channel, 'Planet A.' Good on ya, DW! (BBC? Hello??)
Perhaps try to get memorial florists to take spagnum moss for their wreaths again instead of the usual florist foam/oasis. It was what always used to be done.
Reflooding the dried up the former bogs can be problem. In Finland they drained millions of hectares of bogs in the 50's to 70's and many of them grow forests on them now (often with relatively poor soil and small diameter trees but still a forest). If you flood the land back to make it a true bog again, you will kill the trees and while the spaghnum will start growing again the trees will die and decompose. It can be a delicate dance between optimizing CH4 and CO2 releases and sediment and organic material run-off.
Perhaps this is an approach we could take with regions of melting permafrost "if" the times comes? We will need to find a way to stop permafrost from releasing stored gases.
On an unrelated note, I wish to talk about a mud flat in Korea called the Sura Mudflat(수라갯벌). Quite a large area that is now mostly gone with the massive dam that killed off most if not all of the local wildlife. Literally. It is now more or less a grassy plain. I have went there and it was kind of shocking. As in ,if the shells and the guide didn't tell me it used to be a mudflat, I would've never guessed it was a mudflat. Now I am just rambling. I'll just end this here.
We've been banning peat in compost here in the UK and still growing championship marrows and pumpkins, it can easily be done! Sphagnum Moss is also an amazing thing we used it for plugging wounds in WWI because it's antibacterial :)
0:10: 🇲🇩 Moldova is in turmoil as pro-Russian and pro-European protesters engage in standoffs, fearing they may lose their independence to Russia. 5:16: 🌍 Transnistria is a region that broke away from Moldova in the 1990s and is governed by separatists loyal to Moscow, causing economic and social problems in Moldova. 11:18: 🇲🇩 Ethnic tensions, economic instability, and outside influence contribute to political unrest in Moldova. 16:23: 😔 Moldova faces numerous challenges including a divided society, effects of war, reliance on Russian gas, caring for Ukrainian refugees, and lack of resources. 21:34: 🇲🇩 Unrest in Chișinău, Moldova, has been ongoing for weeks, with paid protesters supporting convicted politician Ilan Shor who has fled the country. 27:20: 💔 The Transnistria War and its aftermath still deeply affect the people of Moldova, and the current war in Ukraine has heightened tensions and fears. 32:29: 🌍 Moldova faces challenges due to Russian aggression and the war in Ukraine. 37:55: ⚠ Russia is allegedly working to destabilize Moldova and bring down its pro-European government through a hybrid war. Recap by Tammy AI
Didnt congress or the senate take protection away from wetlands in the US when the wetlands are not directly connected to lakes, rivers and oceans? Arent some peat bogs not obviously connected to rivers and lakes etc? I saw an article about the protection being removed from almost 65% of US wetlands and it worries me.
The summary of climate change is easy. It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand... Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced... How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere? We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places... Results: ---------- 1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )... 2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere... 3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change... 4- To control upon the storms and harricans... 5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement). 6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere. NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced
Why has the video about poverty in Britain that was posted 3 weeks ago been taken down? I saw a link for that but it says it's unavailable. Is it going to be reposted?
Cattails also regrow every 90 days after being mown and can be turned into pellets for wood pellet burning stoves. They also filter pollutants in the water. They are awesome for agroecology.
Burning releases carbon so kind of defeats the purpose of what they're trying to do.
Wouldn't using them for burning defeat the purpose?
@@BVasquezp just as much as using wood.
@@BVasquezp We absolutely need to stop burning thing for energy but as you can see . . . it's going to be a very slow process.
They knew the cost, they spent the whole video describing it to us . . . then went home and threw some wood in the oven.
I'm sure they do not have other options and THAT is where we need to start.
Cat tails burn like crazy
I keep saying to myself how DW is just.... great! Compared to what I see in the USA, this is a breath of fresh air, calm, collected, facts. Not all opinions of news that counts as news along with book promotions etc.
DW is for the mind.
Thank you for all you do. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪
Yeah DW produces intelligent content, that doesn’t bombard us with gimmicks or flashy nonsense. I love it!
YES! I love it!
@@magesalmanac6424
PBS has some great stuff! not as much but its really good
Agreed! I watch a lot of Amanpour and Company and anyone in Canada has seen Sesame Street and all the kids shows we all grew up watching, I love PBS! I hope it continues to be PBS...
@@axwapples
So agree. I watch DW from Australia. 😊
Whether they are carbon sinks or not Pete bogs/bog wetlands are unique biomes that are important wildlife stops/habitats and need to be protected like any such important places.
They also serve as water quality buffers :)
And in either way also quite essential to restore ground water levels
and helps to store water.
There is n0 climate change, but there is GITMO awaiting mhm.
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I'm a soil scientist, and I approve of this video
Where are you from? ?
I'm terra-bly pleased you approve of it! For peats sake, we must do something about climate change.
@@SkepticalTeacher 😂 Puntastic!
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@@SkepticalTeacher😂😂😂 👏 👏
Dad jokes are still amazing 👏
Near my village in India, a 175.5-hectare wetland, which once served as a natural habitat for migratory birds, was transformed into a fish farm. They use tube wells to artificially maintain water levels in the fish pond, leading to increased emissions.
such a mistake from them
Sad
as a side note: those tree's that are cut down to make room for bogs are prime for mass timber/glulam construction. essentially the wood is glue laminated together to create beams stronger than steel, and replaces a significant amount of concrete and steel necessary for construction. completed mass timber construction continues to act as a carbon sink even after the tree is cut down. theres a calculator on naturally:wood where you can calculate the impact of your planned project.
Thank you, DW Doc, for always-engaging content. Being appropriately ad-free is a huge bonus.
Awesome vid DW. Usually I don't have the patience for watching something this long but this is so interesting it felt like it was 10 minutes. So informative too!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
@@DWDocumentarycan you please unhidden the video about, How cities Liveable
@@DWDocumentary do you guys interact with NDR Doku ? I see some of videos share same themes. And thank you for the awesome and interesting topics, Germany no. 1 in documentaries 🤓
Fascinating. I knew that properly managed peat bogs in Europe are/were extremely useful to people, particularly in the past, while also fixing carbon. This documentary shares an extremely interesting perspective around this subject. Proper, careful management of resources and nature is the best thing for people, nature and the global environment.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
@@DWDocumentary Let's take Norway for an example, when my grandparents was little, there was almost no trees on the mountains, now there is trees everywhere and its overgrowing everywhere... The earth havent been this green since before the ice age.
We have 0.04% Co2 in the atmosphere, and if it falls down to 0.02% all plantlife dies...
There is no Co2 crises, but look at the magnetic northpole, how much weaker it gets every decade and how much faster and faster it's moving closer to Siberia/India... That's the barriere that protects the planet from the suns gama rays etc.
@@RogueSecret another global warming denier smh
Did you expect the climate to stay stable all the time? Guess what, its been changing alot the last 10.000 years as it allways have been... Or we would be stuck in the ice age still and i would have had 14km of ice over my house right now...
The climate models shows only a 1.4 rise the last 100 years, and its predicted to be 1.4 the next hundred too. and there is no signs of more extreme weather now than before... For 100 years ago, 500.000 died becuse of the weather each year, now its just a few 1000...
You can find buildings up to 120m under the sea level still today, meaning the water have risen 120meter since they got built in the first place. The earth is moving in cycles. We are at the end of one, meaning the magnetic noth and south pole are moving faster and faster to the east, and the more east it goes the weaker the magnetic field gets, then we get less protection from both the sun and meteorits etc. In about 10.000 years, the Sahara will be green again, and Scandinavia will lay under kilometers with ice once again.
@@yanlopez674
Science-based projects to restore nature with huge potential for carbon sequestration? It's hard to find something better! This fills me with hope. Thank you.
What if the "science-based" models are based on nonsense?
by all means, enlighten the literal entire scientific global community to your shocking evidence then. @@parapelegicBUD
@@parapelegicBUD ok dunning Kruger
@@parapelegicBUD Right-winger?
@drjordan5706 go get another booster Dr.
I hope this project sees massive success!
Thanks DW for inspiring us to join the battle of saving our planet ! Keep it up !
Planet will be fine, the Human race is at risk.
@@Battleneterbetter start walking to work and paddling to Europe. Oh wait, that’s not gonna happen, it’s just a pipe dream for the uneducated.
@@joemoer1 The climate doesn't care about what you think, or what you think is education, it's not at all relevant :)
Wow. Not only a rewilding pioneer, but a very successful one on a huge scale! And of course, excellent practical work by the two researchers to fast-track carbon storage and rewilding in industrial agriculture areas by developing sustainable commercially viable farming practices of native flora. And finally incredible heart by the conscientious farmer/farmers who massively applied these methods at their own expense without any special subsidies! In the West, most farmers get massive subsidies for even the most destructive and lucrative agriculture.
this is just waste of effort and space . most of oxigen is produced in the ocean water covers the majority of the planet . also rewilding is retarded . you spend centuries adjusting enviroment to be suitable for humans just to fuck it up
Cattails are also a food source and a great use for potential for fabric fibers, not just for creating habitat and carbon sink
Remove all the water from the landscape, what could possibly go wrong? All we ever had to do was nothing, just leave things alone. Other than undoing some of what we’ve done, the remedy to climate change is humans doing nothing. Yet this is seemingly impossible for people to fathom. Human being, not human doing!
Yep!! We can find other things to do!! At home...maybe all the rich richs will die from no creative brain just money makers...making money!! I say go eat your 💰 😂
I love that DW, I have learned so many things and I also love the calming nature of the reporting and documentaries.
This was an awesome reportage! Thank you DW for expanding our knowledge and understanding of the world.
Cow and horse manure is exceptional for gardening and without destroying natural habitats. There is no need to dig up pete
The Finns are out here showing us the way! What a great and inspiring story!
0:24: 🌱 Peatlands are important ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, but they have been decimated and drained, contributing to climate change. However, new methods like polluti culture could help restore and protect peatlands.
5:23: 🌱 Researchers are developing a new agriculture system using bog moss to replace peat in plant soil, which has the potential to revolutionize plant growth and benefit the climate.
9:12: 🌍 Decades of mining and exploitation in Tero Mustang's home Village caused severe damage to the landscape and rivers, impacting the climate and livelihoods.
14:45: ✅ The potential of peatlands and marsh plants in addressing climate change and creating a sustainable future.
19:46: 🌍 The experts in grossfile share their efforts in solving the climate problem by using resources more sustainably and restoring peatlands.
23:28: 🌍 Peatlands, which cover just 3% of the world's land area, store twice as much carbon as the world's forests, making them crucial for climate protection.
Recap by Tammy AI
I hope that farmers working on small/smaller scale will get the recognition they deserve for they are much more likely to work in sustainable ways
Excellent report and, finally, there is real optimism. Can we find the wisdom to institute policies necessary to save ourselves?
Bogs are amazing
Florida could sure use some canal removal and swamp rewetting but instead they are expanding the canal networks in the name of flood control because the disrupted bogs no longer retain, clean and slowly release water following heavy rainfall events, ugh.
In India, with the excessive rainfall, maybe we can create peatlands on unused lands. Not only would this help in utilizing the excess water but also act as a carbon sink to curb emissions!
Another great documentary....thanks DW!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
@@DWDocumentary Pleasure!
Seconded that we need more of this.
20:30 there is a way of greatly improving what they do. The biomass can be "burned" without oxygen and under pressure (pyrolysis) and that way there are no emissions of CO2 and the obtained byproducts (biochar) are very good as fertilizers.
What!! So the answer isnt to dig up finite materials to make billions of EVs?
The hubris of humanity is astonishing.
Enlightening and scary at the same time....thank you so much
This TH-cam channel needs to upload more Agriforestry and nature based wildlife preservation videos! I need to figure put how to fix my southern virginia pine forests not touched since 1970! Huge swaths of animals and other plant species have disappeared due to tobacco growth and excessive pine forest growth and harvesting for profit!
Such great videos. I thank you!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
Bogs are basically nature's compost bins! Their importance can hardly be overstated!
I once saw a graph about the effect CO2 has on the temperature in increments of 20 ppm. It pretty much looks like a negative log graph. This means the more CO2 we put into the atmosphere the less effect it has on increasing temperature. The first 100ppm had the most effect....but one has to go back thousands of years just to get below 200ppm and I have read that below 150ppm plants start to die. So the point in time, when CO2 concentrations made a real difference in temperature, was before humans were around anyways. This carbon footprint stuff is an exercise in futility and a waste of money. The climate is changing for other reasons and we need to spend more time making sure we are adapted to these changes. I don't have much confidence in those parameterized models which just spit out a rainbow of results.
Wonderful documentary, just beautiful.
Fascinating, I knew bogs & swampy/marshlike wetlands were less common now, but 98%? And how important they are compared to what most assume! This should be wider-spread...
I almost can't believe this is a news piece! It feels like an amazing micro-documentary
the other side of the story theyre not telling you is that pete moss is low in nurtients, all it does it hold water well, but then even in potting mix they will then add perlite because the pete holds water too well. but even if it holds water well you need nurtients from oragnic matter (compost) the way simpler method of making potting soil would be to mix compost with native dirt. compost is easily made from waste materails which you can get many forms like wood chips, leaves, grass clippings, sea weed, food scraps carboard from a city easily.
this whole endeavor is a fools errand, even if you got a new moss sustainably harvested it and transported it, yeah and? you don't have nutrition you need compost for nutrition.
bogs/swamps have always been my fav along with lakes/rivers
To all the teams involved; no language exists to sufficiently express my thanks & admiration. To everyone else; cover yourself in insect repellent & visit bogs- truly beautiful habitats.
The science of whether harvesting from peat lands will disrupt carbon sequestration is extremely fuzzy. There are tons of debates on how soil carbon accumulates and how it releases even within the scientific community. DW presenting this as if it’s settled matter (esp the biomass powered plant) is not prudent. Solutions for the consumption driven carbon emissions problem are not simple.
Stop using peat to pot plants. Don’t buy plants potted in peat and please don’t buy bags of peat. There’s plenty of substitutes.
We need more peat bogs.
Because I like Scotch.
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Another wonderful documentary coverage video about preserving peat land for reducing climate change through adoption scientific researching result by farmers whose feeling responsibilities to ward's theirs climate ... return the climatic healthy...it was a great content...thank you a remarkable ( DW ) documentary channel...
Thanks for watching. :)
It doesn't matter until China's emissions and India's emissions are handled. Notice the severe avoidance of that topic. It doesn't matter how many bogs are reintroduced in Germany when China emits more carbon in a day than that entire bog has contained.
China can easily improve their ecology by simply building more inscinerators to burn plastic waste. They have big GDP and people know how to segregate trash. Less plastic means less metane from marine life dying due to plastic pollution. But India's corruption, lack of proper infrastructure and knowledge of eco demeanor makes any change very difficult.
Here I asked in the chat GPT how many areas are needed for cultivation in order to provide fuel for, for example, Poland, and there it is indicated that it is necessary to plant up to three thirds of the area of the country, and the time to grow it is quite a lot, since 1 m2 grows up to 6 kg of moss in a year, and this is about one liter of bioethanol. It should be taken into account that not such a large part of transport in the EU is adapted to run on bioethanol. As for food, the situation here is quite good and you can try to grow it, as it can become a profitable and ecological business.
if only all climate activists were like the guy in this doc,what they lack is the essential element: Wisdom. I hope this method works altho indeed it seems very expensive to be applied all over the world!! still we need other creative cheap solutions
The ocean is the lungs of the world, literally 2/3 of oxygen comes from the ocean and it absorbs a lot of carbon.
My book Pluvicopia details how to produce massive amounts of water from the rain cycle when humidity is stagnant, and drought conditions prevail. There are many ways to capture carbon with water and new arable land, but developing vast new wetlands would potently sequester carbon at the needed rate. Is there much research on wetlands in semitropical lands, where the process is hugely productive? The Sahara, US West, Northern Mexico, The Middle East, and the Stans areas; once you refill the Aral Sea, what can you do with excess flow from the Amu-Darya. New wetlands around the Aral Sea might be great places to sequester carbon in wetlands and Bogs. It is a natural Bog area since there is no drainage. Does anyone know about that?
Lining the sides of freeways and hyways with native plants and trees and in deserts cactus yucca and bushes.
All of that can help slow drivers do to well who wants to hit a tree going 80mph when the speed limits was 65 give yourself time to slow so its like 40mph when you hit or slower.
Also all the plant life will reduce the lights of drivers going the opposite direction reducing car crashes.
This will also reduce flooding and wind co2 as well as reduce noise pollution and ground and air pollution.
You forgot the potential for pollinators to feed and travel along highways if you let flowers to bloom, it'll look nicer too. And minimum of 50% of lawns should be returned back to natural state.
@@McSlobo very true
This is very, very bad idea.
This kind of road will be really expensive to maintain and manage. You cannot just mow it few times a year, you going to need specialized machines which slow down or even block the traffic when at work. One stronger wind and broken branches or even fallen trees will block big stretch of the road. The road should give you good visibility, not "a maze feeling". More you see, safer everyone is. Moreover, you just build a perfect fire source just next to your car's exhaust pipe - what could possibly go wrong. You really don't want to find yourself in a fire tunnel, with no way out.
Thanks so much for posting
No solutions will help when our numbers are 4x what the planet can naturally sustain.
DW science documentaries have become my "go-to" library for my science courses. Only one thing I wish scientists would have mentioned: any PESTS that could potentially damage peatlands? Anyone in the audience knows? Thanks!!!
Amazing video material.
Are Bog brothers saving humanity? I kneel.
Anyone can become a bog brother, join us.
You are superheroes! I really appreciate what you're doing for our lovely planet❤
a dry peat land is highly flammable and once it starts to burn, it doesn't stop. here in Russia we have a huge problem with that, in summer some cities and region, apart from forest fires, drown in smog, coming undeground. it's acked tone of co2 every year, not to say about damage to a local environment by constant exposure to toxic gases
22:00 The US has nothing but money huh?
Song at 3:48?
20:35 Is that grass different from what is commonly grown on bogs? Why not feed it to animals?
CO2 is 1.5 heavier than Oxygen... so it goes down quickly into water or soil. But it will goes ballistic into the air IF there is pressure (heat).
Another great documentary regarding climate change 👍.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
very eye opening.. yet again..
A rich informative video..as humas destroy they can also rebuild, now is the time to do it.
Climate has always been changing. Lol😂😂😂
And so has the stock market. Does that mean stock market crashes are just hype?
Letting nature (in this case peatlands) do the work for you is working smarter, not harder.
The planet doesn't need saving. The planet will be just fine and over 1000 and millions of years will recover. People are what is being saved.
As a Canadian, I wonder how big a deal it will be to restore a few marshes in Germany. My guess is that if Germany was completely covered in bogs, they would have about half as many bogs as we do, 1/4 that of Russia if you are lucky. It looks to me like the problem and solution that you are proposing will make no difference to the earth at all. Your scale is so small it means nothing at all on a planetary scale. Certainly there can be local benefits and those are worth highlighting but to say that this will save the world is utter nonsense.
Restart your nuclear plants and stop destroying towns for coal if you want less carbon in the atmosphere
Either that or take over USA and make better policies on a large scale
are those osb-like boards for sale yet?
its not farmers living off their land, its everybody
This is mind bogling
I can't think of a national broadcaster, who produces such high quality and frequent video content on TH-cam. This is not even from their 'environment' channel, 'Planet A.' Good on ya, DW! (BBC? Hello??)
Out of everything in this video the energy plant seems the most economically viable and they barely talked about it.
Perhaps try to get memorial florists to take spagnum moss for their wreaths again instead of the usual florist foam/oasis. It was what always used to be done.
Reflooding the dried up the former bogs can be problem. In Finland they drained millions of hectares of bogs in the 50's to 70's and many of them grow forests on them now (often with relatively poor soil and small diameter trees but still a forest). If you flood the land back to make it a true bog again, you will kill the trees and while the spaghnum will start growing again the trees will die and decompose. It can be a delicate dance between optimizing CH4 and CO2 releases and sediment and organic material run-off.
I love bogs,greetings from Ireland
Mangroves love peat, they grow anywhere where it's not too cold.
All I can say is people like these give me hope
Extent your idea of the plank length on my Witcher link. 22:38 intestinal environmental plank static outlet 60hertz hamming code paradox?
Perhaps this is an approach we could take with regions of melting permafrost "if" the times comes? We will need to find a way to stop permafrost from releasing stored gases.
What would also help is peace talks in war zones
Great project for a nonexistent problem
On an unrelated note, I wish to talk about a mud flat in Korea called the Sura Mudflat(수라갯벌).
Quite a large area that is now mostly gone with the massive dam that killed off most if not all of the local wildlife. Literally. It is now more or less a grassy plain. I have went there and it was kind of shocking. As in ,if the shells and the guide didn't tell me it used to be a mudflat, I would've never guessed it was a mudflat. Now I am just rambling. I'll just end this here.
Great video to fight climate despair, we can still save the Earth!
Bogs would be an extremely efficient as a future method of communal mass burial in order to lessen our carbon footprint. And that’s a very good thing!
Climate problems cover HUGE areas, fixes cover SMALL areas. We are going to need MILLIONS of fixes, at this rate!
Carl, we urgently need to do something about global warming!
What can we do about it?
Visit a psychiatrist together.
What can we do about it ?
Best is to stop consuming media lies.
Stop watching TV and stop reading newspapers.
Brilliant Documentary 👍
Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)
Hope DW also make a documentary about deforestation in borneo , indonesia.
Love the background music. A few popular songs
We've been banning peat in compost here in the UK and still growing championship marrows and pumpkins, it can easily be done! Sphagnum Moss is also an amazing thing we used it for plugging wounds in WWI because it's antibacterial :)
It hasn't been banned.
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5:16: 🌍 Transnistria is a region that broke away from Moldova in the 1990s and is governed by separatists loyal to Moscow, causing economic and social problems in Moldova.
11:18: 🇲🇩 Ethnic tensions, economic instability, and outside influence contribute to political unrest in Moldova.
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21:34: 🇲🇩 Unrest in Chișinău, Moldova, has been ongoing for weeks, with paid protesters supporting convicted politician Ilan Shor who has fled the country.
27:20: 💔 The Transnistria War and its aftermath still deeply affect the people of Moldova, and the current war in Ukraine has heightened tensions and fears.
32:29: 🌍 Moldova faces challenges due to Russian aggression and the war in Ukraine.
37:55: ⚠ Russia is allegedly working to destabilize Moldova and bring down its pro-European government through a hybrid war.
Recap by Tammy AI
Didnt congress or the senate take protection away from wetlands in the US when the wetlands are not directly connected to lakes, rivers and oceans? Arent some peat bogs not obviously connected to rivers and lakes etc?
I saw an article about the protection being removed from almost 65% of US wetlands and it worries me.
The summary of climate change is easy.
It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand...
Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced...
How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere?
We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places...
Results:
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1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )...
2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere...
3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change...
4- To control upon the storms and harricans...
5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement).
6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere.
NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans...
These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000...
Yousif A Tobiya
Forcibly displaced
I like swamps , in a bog way, fish, look lovely, great job, good day
great documentary
Bog. Pocket of gas as the similarity of swamps below sea level and swamps above sea level. In Relative Comparison there; is longevity.
Thanks 🙏 x
3:49 I thought I was on TikTok there for a second 😂
Why has the video about poverty in Britain that was posted 3 weeks ago been taken down? I saw a link for that but it says it's unavailable. Is it going to be reposted?