Egyptian coastal city of alexandria is fighting rising sea levels and its own demise. Our planet consists largely of water around 70 percent of the earths surface is covered by it. Climate change is causing temperatures to rise until now oceans have absorbed a large share of the heat. Helping to keep temperatures in check bouts has temperatures rise. So does the sea level. The entire planet is feeling the impact of melting lacey us. Since 1900 sea levels have risen by around 20 centimeters and particularly sharp p since 1993. If this continues sea levels could be 1. 10 meters higher by the end of this century than they are to day. Worst Case Scenarios predict to rise of up to 1. 7 meters in alexandria in egypt. The rising levels are already causing great concern most of the beach has already been swallowed by the sea. Just a few years ago, sunbathe is lounged here on 6 rows of chairs. Only one remains. Almost 30 meters of beach are now under water. Often the waves lapped directly against the buildings. Like at this popular beach cafe, the view is unique, but the future is uncertain. Tom or he made as income is crumbling. The 42 year old has been running his cafe for more than 20 years. But now its days like this entire row of houses seemed numbered. Most moraga, if this continues soon, there wont be a beach here. We shoot nothing at all. This suddenly, next year the sea water will come right up to the edge here. We will see cracks on the wall, testify to the danger, tommy. He made a has lived in fear ever since 2019, when the porch collapsed under the force of the waves. So do. I was bewildered, bewildered. I thought we were experiencing astronomy the former pull of the mediterranean is now threatened with ruin, founded more than 2400 years ago by alexander the great alexandria was once a major centre of civilization. To day it is egypt, 2nd largest city, with more than 5000000 inhabitants. And over 60 kilometers of shoreline, the voice creeps ever closer to the historic buildings. As the sea level rises, scientists fear that sooner or later they will be completely submerged. And if you, how well in loss of about half a 1000000 hectares, around alexandria and the nile delta, you will sing here the around 4000000 people will be affected in the summer. If possible rises by one and a half meters around 8000000 people in the delta ha, that will be in mortal danger. Unless im a fisherman. The delta water of the in the, at hotmail. The city council is desperately trying to hold back the waves. Coastal protection workers are sinking tetra pods. Wayne tens of thousands of tons along the coast. The project has been underway since september. The clock is ticking. Palaces, historical bridges and lighthouses must be protected before its too late. Warns assa aysa, the head of coastal conservation in alexandria, advanced scenario normal in the worst case scenario. The historic defensive wall will collapse, part of it already broken away, but we repaired that ideally before the war collapse is completely the part causing it to the c. 1000. 00 beaches will also be protected with a wall of concrete blocks, cranes are gradually sinking. The tetra pods into the sea, costing tens of millions of euros. Its a Dangerous Mission against the forces of nature. As oman, battiata, weve often had to stop our work and start all over again because of storm surge is enough. Then in another place, all our equipment was submerged by water. Where id that to the middle will. These are already enormous challenges because were working with c and Severe Weather conditions, especially in winter. In the cities narrow alley ways, residents are at the mercy of the she had volumes of water. The small apartment of ultimate ramadan and his wife, missouri was flooded 4 times last winter. As the result of rising sea levels and heavy rain, the pension is dont have enough money to keep re painting the walls, or even to move away. They make do with plastic top hollands and stones on to which they place. They all van nature, mark them on that. Were really worried of course. Our lives are in god hands to tell them what should we do . A letter in the last flood. They lost their furniture and most of their electrical appliances around for days. They couldnt enter their apartment and was stuck out in the street. Here was elena and alex, im scared. Well lose everything with alexander has sewage system has long been unable to withstand the mix of rain and sea water. Not enough pipes that are too thin and often clogged, even though the city council regularly cleans them. New pipes are being built near the coast to re direct the water back into the sea. But all this is unlikely to solve the problem in the long term. Thought id already, im affected by it too. Of course. As an employee, i sometimes feel i havent done my job properly, but i do what i can. Well, we work hard on whats happening here is beyond our capabilities. And yet many people in alexandria are hoping for a miracle. And that theyll somehow get off lightly for tom or he maida and his family. Their very existence is at stake. Morganze was shut down, garza, i wish the coast would be like it used to be him again. How much we hardly have any beak here any more than almost nothing of global minima, norma, i hope the government will implement its rescue plan quickly. I am begging them to save the coast and with cafe will amo, was it to wish likely to go unfulfilled. The people of alexandria cant stop Climate Change with wishful thinking. Hm. Another place experiencing the effects of Climate Change 1st hand is alaska. Its getting warmer and warmer in the you. Essays. Nolan, my st state. Last winter temperature has climbed to a record 19. 4 degrees celsius. To put that in perspective, minus 20 degrees celsius is considered normal at this time of year. Such changes a wreaking havoc with the lives of people and animals who live that ah landing. It would geography. The change is impossible to overlook. The permafrost is melting. The once frozen landscape is now littered with pools of water, reaching right up to the houses, residence in the United States northernmost town, find the ground is literally melting beneath them. Just a few kilometers away, scientists at a u. S. Government observatory are busy tracking Climate Change. Brian thomas has been in charge here for 15 years. For 50 years, the station has recorded c o 2 levels and the atmosphere, and track the temperatures and precipitation levels. Where we noticed over the 40 years or more than a plus in a little bit more almost 50 years now. We noticed that big change almost a 100 parts per 1000000 change. Now the last time there was this much change. It was a 5000 year period after the last ice age when the were froze, warming. So what weve done in 50 years, humans have caused the same amount as what was naturally happening in 5000 years. New equipment has just been installed, designed to analyze the air even more precisely. Its an exact gauge of global warming. The scientists identify how much Carbon Dioxide is stored in the air. And we bring it in from our really tall tower outside. Bring it in on the, on, on the hoses, free enter this instrument. And inside this instrument, we put a heat laser in there. Just like the heat thats coming off the surface of the earth thats being trapped by the Carbon Dioxide. We basically, we create the conditions that are outside. We do that in the lab where we can measure and then we know how much Carbon Dioxide is in that sample. Hookey arctic is one of 4 Climate Change observatories in the u. S. Theyre run by the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its been known so, and theyre all located far away from cities as an industry on the bigger alaska we have. Hawaii you have similar, were soft pull. So we have this nice connection across the earth. When the when moves past and what were looking for is we dont want to look at whats happening locally the point sources of pollution. We want to look at whats happening in the well mixed air that travelled around a lot. Climate change is happening on the observatories doorstep. The snow is melting earlier in the year, and the summers are getting longer. The blocks of ice that once served as a natural protection against the waves and rising sea levels have gone. In recent decades, the air temperature and the arctic has risen twice as fast as the global average people here in new york vick have witnessed the change 1st hand the ocean used to freeze in october and now its not freezing. Sometimes until late january said the storm surges normally the northern winds in winter would be coming off of the ice. And now theyre pushing the ocean waves up against the coast. So youre seeing a lot more erosion occurring because the ocean isnt freezing. Youre seeing damages to the Critical Infrastructure in the community as the permafrost is dying. Buildings are sinking, and im there, theyre being cracked and damaged. How i remembered in the past, like 20 years ago. Their legs know, and stars knowing before school because school would start like the 2nd week of august and, and like that kids would start walking to school in nash no, but now did a read the rising temperatures also pose a challenge to local hunters. The wild animals have started to behave differently. Its a real problem, says billy adams. Hes one of the best known hunters and who can kick his indigenous name is ok. Now can we learn to exist with the animals that weve depended and sharing the, the health of their population. That type timing of the migration has changed a lot more or at least up to 3 to 4 weeks earlier than we have to change with that. Also, for example, in the eightys or ninetys, we could go a few 100 yards to gather some of our animals for mature. And now it could be 15 miles 20 miles further. But the risks have not only grown for the hunters. Residents are also in danger. In winter, a growing number of polar bears are entering with their natural habitat melting. They come to places like this, searching for food and they bite to survive obnoxious services. As a polar bear ranger are required, we had over 90 paula beers come ashore and they were within our community and into our communities. We had to make sure that they were safe and make way. We started to pull a beer to turn the program, and we made sure that the people were save the children would fave lucky. No ones been hurt yet. So same things happening in canada, and theyve not been quite as lucky. Theyve had so fatalities with barriers in town where they shouldnt be. It happens in kind of waves. Its sort of depends on sort of everything comes down to the sea ice. The entire ecosystem depends on the ice. So even just a small rise and temperature has a huge impact on nature and on the lives of the people who live here. And yvonne duke is a biologist. Hes lived and worked in key organic for the past 7 years. Be a great the scale of changes, huge and its not getting better, its just, its slowly getting worse and less, less dependable. Just like to say for my job, i cant do my job as easily as i used to because of for lack of life. And the same is true for the wildlife, as well. Back to the observatory the center received a rare visit from washington in the summer. The scientists and representatives of numerous Political Institutions attended an official Opening Ceremony for a new state of the art research facility. We can see that if we dont do anything, right, i mean were going to continue to go up. Right. So this represents warming thats already baked in. This warming is already going to happen because this is already in the atmosphere. So anything that we can do to change this right now picking it down, we would have to actively remove, right . But the, the more we can bend it down by not putting as much in the atmosphere to better off. We will be experts often describe the arctic at the epicenter of Climate Change. In places like yuck. That change is dramatic. And it seems that no turning back mm. Plastic bottles are practical and available everywhere. Every minute. 1000000 of them are sold worldwide. The number of bottles produced in a year would be enough to cover the distance from us to the planet. Mercury. Emptied and thrown away very few bottles of recycled most end up in the trash or in nature. Which is a huge problem because plastic takes about 450 years to decompose the world, desperately needs ideas for how to deal with old plastic. We take a look at one in Rio De Janeiro ah. How can skateboards help re as largest havana to reduce Plastic Waste . This question drives canadian, ari and roy agony, who is realizing his vision of sustainability here in the midst of thousands of bottle caps. In his improvised open air workshop, the 28 year old has declared war on garbage, at least as far as the lids are concerned. Why he said he might visit today. Ive already gathered 400 kilos of caps, but i havent managed to recycle all of them yet. He has got all this, but things are progressing mileage. So michelle processed the process begins with one of his help is cleaning the lives of this of silkwood. Yeah, a right now for villa ra senior, the lids used to be just throwing away. Now these almost to kind of recycling fever thats broken out since arian showed us that you can make skate bullets out of them. On a, on by a ghani and mechanical engineer, through the plans up himself at the heart of it. Its this little mold in which 500 lids are melted into escape bo deck, using this pizza oven. Didnt put a lot the case at that change. There was gate lords or an ideal product in my beer us because theyre relatively durable, making good and i can recycle quite a lot of bottle caps in one go. Might voluminous applies for a mock. Was it the 1st time i saw a plastic skateboard on the street . Well no. I thought gauge mare who is your faith diblasio. I can produce that and sustainably bluff as a duplicate for his glove. Every day he loads another tray of bottle caps to be melted at 180. 00 degrees celsius. 80 years ago, a young i agony traveled to brazil and fell in love with this area. The mounds of garbage generated by the prevail as 100000 inhabitants inspired him to come up with his sustainability project. Now a small army helps him collect the caps, the trash recycle of ro cigna. One of them is maria daughters audio fo, connecting plastic bottles, cans and glass. She has the equivalent of 650. 00 euros a month. She puts the lids to one side for adiana regarding only should i get here. For us waste is valuable act and brings and money hadnt been thinking about money. My son and i collect things for the recycling center, but the bottle cab, samantha, we usually take them highly. Somebody is really had with many of her neighbors, also drop their bottle caps off with her but it is sad because like they had thought, we know the lead. So give it a new life. I so we get them on ria rival. Weve got a local recycling economy here with blast l. C. Black, social worker, marcella played royce, also works with audi on that i agony. He leads the recycling network in which maria does audio, but his okay. I thank you, maria. This is great. And we can make some more skateboard, sagebrook, a woo, dodge muddy. Had it as audio lives with her 5 children in a small apartment in those senior bedroom. Browse yet like ian, i was, feel you. There was a garbage recycling campaign here. Malaysian i that, thats why i started working at the damn body mike, that was 3 years ago. It was todays own pama must said, okay, roy helped her get started. This which what was the diesel . We showed maria how she can earn money by separating waste bottles such pleasure to perform a total of 8. 00 families. Now make a living from waste, recycling at our 24 rubbish, thomas and roxanne. Yeah, im, i dont remember what the us like, maria. They bring it all to the recycling center twice a week on my pity, alkalis, hipaa. The bi catch, the bottle tops end up in arianne gigantic skateboard. Mold. The mold is dunked in water to cool it down. My dog affiliation with, im really happy that we develop the sustainable product. I give it that should also be fun for people to use says i saw billy smith, the scapegoat is trimmed with a sharp knife on an riot on a reuse as the excess plastic later he is still currently living for making skateboards. Its only recently that hes been selling his booth online for 90 euros each which includes requests for personalized designs. The entrepreneurs, he is part of the proceeds to finance a social project, food puzzles for needy families, delivering sugar. Pastor flower and rice probably been lose me. When my baby was born, i lost my job in wilmington for now im unemployed. Has a made my husband works, but his salary only just pays the rent the data pork father of our dogs go, can we get home mice . Havent eaten meat for ages . I can only afford rice beans and ankles fish. What to say . The 2 men already have their side settle their next skull. The arrival of a 2nd hand robot that will take Plastic Recycling to a new level. Arianna agony paid for it with his savings. Hes convinced that the project will soon pay off. I guess i missed the normal Technology Law of a whole. Now i want to apply robotics and new technologies. I Engineering Architecture and recycling it to create sustainable products that are popular product dish gates wont kid. I think it will work awesome with the yeah, the 1st tests for plastic tables and chairs are promising. This 3 d printer should soon be processing 6 killers of plastic per hour. Good news for a senior. The for viola where more and more people are helping to transform Plastic Waste into useful objects that are both colorful and fun. Cities littered with plastic clogged rivers, dead animals. According to indias environment ministry, the country produces 3500000. 00 tons of Plastic Waste a year. But experts believe its actually much more. Now the country has banned single use plastic. However, implementing the band is proving to be a big challenge. A student ashish who mars role models are the thieves from the t. V series. Money heist. But he has a more sustainable goal in mind than holding up banks. He aims to make his home city of delhi plastic, free through what he calls, plastic height, blogging over we steal plastic from people, some just give it to us, but others get angry and refuse. And we thought that we often hear the Companies Need to stop produ