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00:01:02the executive board of the National Bank of Serbia, Alta
00:01:06bank, had its license revoked, the Prosecutor's Office for Organized
00:01:09Crime announced the filing of criminal charges against several
00:01:13responsible persons, the Alta Bank advertisement disappeared from the jersey of
00:01:16Crvena Zvezda basketball players, it was not on their backs, on
00:01:20the training shirt it was covered with a white
00:14:22Referendum losers? The purgatory of the proud, media poisoners, and
00:14:25secret services still in operation, persecution and last days. The MUP
00:14:29ignores Toka's orders, Macurina's bank gave a loan of 12
00:14:32million euros to a businessman accused of attempted
00:14:36murder.
00:14:37I
00:14:41want to inform you that based on
00:14:44the stratified
00:14:46sample, it is clear
00:14:49that we lost these elections. The student-blocker
00:14:53won.
00:15:07it's over, it's over, it's over, the largest number of them headed to
00:15:10Slavija to celebrate this
00:15:12victory,
00:15:16the most beautiful presenter,
00:15:19thank you, there will never be such a Serbia again, which was
00:15:23ruled by such a man as he was. Thank you very much, we are starting to
00:15:26change things for the better, thank you very much, thank you, Mileva
00:15:30Dimitrijević, candidate on the student list, we are still here
00:15:33review, student movement, but also civil.
00:15:37protests that had their epilogue tonight. The Serbian
00:15:41Progressive Party, after more than a decade, lost
00:15:44power. A symbol of slavery.
00:15:47Onovo Pioneer Park. No more slavery. This was until now, no
00:15:51longer. I adore you, you are the greatest emperor in the world. Okay,
00:15:54what are your impressions tonight?
00:15:58It's like a dream, it's like a dream. Students win, they have
00:16:01141 mandates. Serbian Progressive Party
00:16:05103.
00:16:07Thank you, thank you for everything, long live freedom, from
00:16:11tomorrow we build the future, thank you for your attention
00:16:14and good night, stay with N1, see you.
00:16:41In Europe, the summer of 2026 was one of the hottest
00:16:44since record-taking began. When temperatures climb that high,
00:16:48cities turn into ovens, movement is exhausting, and
00:16:52everyone seems on edge. We need to do more to adapt,
00:16:55particularly in urban settings. More green spaces could be part of the
00:16:59solution.
00:17:02This and more on DW's science show. Welcome to
00:17:06Tomorrow Today.
00:17:12Can we redesign cities before urban heat
00:17:15becomes even deadlier? This researcher is on a mission to do
00:17:19just that. Fabian Brantenburg and his team in Leipzig
00:17:23use green building and urban design along with storm water
00:17:26technology to help defend Germany's cities against the
00:17:30blistering heat caused by climate change.
00:17:34Cities are typically hotter than their surrounding environment due to the
00:17:37high density of materials like metal, concrete, and brick that
00:17:41absorb heat. Lack of vegetation also plays a
00:17:44role. During extreme heat, air temperatures
00:17:48in inner-city centers can be higher by up to 10 degrees
00:17:51Celsius than the adjacent rural and suburban
00:17:54areas. This is a danger for the people who live in urban settings,
00:17:58in particular the elderly who are especially vulnerable to hot
00:18:02weather. Fabian and his colleagues
00:18:06investigate the cooling impact of patches of plants and swamp
00:18:09vegetation on roofs, where the conditions mimic
00:18:12marshland, compared to roofs covered in
00:18:15gravel. What we can see is
00:18:19that the surface temperature of the roofs
00:18:22is, um, several degrees lower in summer when you
00:18:25compare it to the gravel roof. The green
00:18:29and swamp roofs act as an extra layer of
00:18:32insulation, just the soil, the
00:18:35substrate, or in case of the swamp green roof, the
00:18:39water, um, act as a as an insulation barrier just
00:18:42like you would normally insulate your building, um.
00:18:46And in addition, you have evapotranspiration effect,
00:18:49so, kind of, the building is sweating just like we
00:18:52would, and the evapotranspiration then cools the
00:18:56building. Water for evapotranspiration comes
00:18:59mainly from rain, which fills gaps in the soil when it
00:19:03falls. Roots absorb the water and draw it upwards through
00:19:06the plant's body. It's then released through tiny pores in its
00:19:10leaves as water vapor. This vapor has
00:19:13a cooling effect on the surrounding air. In urban areas, it
00:19:17can amount to as much as 4 degrees Celsius.
00:19:21If
00:19:24evapotranspiration is one way plants cool their surrounding
00:19:28environment, another is shade from their
00:19:30leaves.
00:19:33These are Germany's first tree trenches. They collect
00:19:37storm water to prevent flooding, and that water is
00:19:41handy in times of drought. What we
00:19:44saw here over the past years of drought is that a lot of trees
00:19:48actually died and thereby they lose their infrastructure
00:19:51function, so to say, so they don't provide any shade and they don't evaporate,
00:19:55transpirate any water and
00:19:57by
00:20:00specifically infiltrating rainwater at the
00:20:04tree trenches or at the parks, we can keep the tree
00:20:08alive and thereby it keeps its benefits like shade and
00:20:12evapotranspiration. The tree trenches can give the plant's
00:20:14roots more space underground. Combined with
00:20:17collected stormwater, this can lead to bigger canopies and better
00:20:21shading, which means cooler streets. Green
00:20:24infrastructure can be as simple as a
00:20:27cobbles which let vegetation through, or funnels
00:20:31channeling storm water towards surrounding
00:20:34greenery. New buildings could pump gray water,
00:20:37waste water not contaminated with feces, to the green
00:20:41roof. An experiment here shows plants fed with waste
00:20:44water thrive even more than those fed with tap water.
00:20:48The system helps keep plants alive when water is
00:20:51scarce and could help them provide more shade in the
00:20:54city. The scientists also work with
00:20:57rainwater collected by their green roofs. They
00:21:01found that piping the rainwater down the walls has a
00:21:05cooling effect. The research may prove beneficial
00:21:08further afield than Germany. Especially
00:21:11in regions where water is scarce, blue-green infrastructures are
00:21:15especially important because they not
00:21:19only retain water
00:21:22on top of the roof, but they also infiltrate it and can
00:21:25recharge the aquifers or the the ground water.
00:21:29Clean water scarcity is an issue for Indonesia's
00:21:33cities. This is a professor, an
00:21:37expert in the field. In Indonesia,
00:21:41green roofs make a lot of sense, and the reason is,
00:21:44like, in contrast to Germany, where there are only a few
00:21:48weeks where it's really, really hot, in Indonesia it's most of the year quite
00:21:52hot, and additional cooling, um, actually
00:21:55has, like, the benefit, it cools down like for all times of the year,
00:21:59so that's like a huge additional advantage that the
00:22:03benefits actually spread out over the year. Having
00:22:07a standing body of water like a swamp on a roof in
00:22:10Indonesia could be problematic for controlling
00:22:13mosquitoes, though. But
00:22:15green roofs, because they retain water, could help protect
00:22:18a city like Jakarta from flooding during storms and therefore
00:22:22reduce sudden runoff. However, Indonesia's humid
00:22:26climate could raise issues. In
00:22:29Indonesia, like, um, plants are different, like, of
00:22:32course, there's importance to use native plants.
00:22:36It's more humid, um, plants are growing faster, and that can lead to
00:22:40structural issues like, um, you need like
00:22:43earth and the plants itself, the biomass, it's, it's weighing, so
00:22:46like the buildings need to be stable enough to carry the
00:22:50weight of the biomass, and that's an
00:22:53important consideration.
00:22:55A common criticism of green roofs is that the cost of
00:22:59installing them is just too high, but Fabian
00:23:02says blue-green infrastructures will actually save
00:23:05Leipzig 700 million over the next
00:23:08decade, and by lowering urban temperatures, installing
00:23:12greenery to reduce extreme heat will also
00:23:15save lives.
00:23:17Do
00:23:38affecting biodiversity?
00:23:41Plants, animals,
00:23:44fungi. We share our planet with millions of other
00:23:48species, all interacting in
00:23:50different environments. This is what we think of as
00:23:53biodiversity, and it's threatened by climate change,
00:23:56especially by rising temperatures.
00:24:00Habitats often change faster than the species that
00:24:03live in them can adapt, like the polar
00:24:06bear. Polar regions have grown warmer in the last few
00:24:09decades, causing vast stretches of sea ice to
00:24:13melt, and that's having an impact on polar bears, which depend on the
00:24:17ice to hunt seals.
00:24:19Elsewhere, water is growing scarce. Forests are
00:24:23suffering as a result. Trees don't react quickly to
00:24:26environmental change. They take a long time to reproduce
00:24:30and adapt to new circumstances. When
00:24:33weakened by drought, they absorb less CO2 and
00:24:36produce less oxygen. That leaves them more vulnerable to
00:24:40pests and wildfires.
00:24:44Climate change is also altering the timing of some natural
00:24:48events. Many plants now
00:24:50flower earlier in the year than they did just a few decades
00:24:53ago. This is causing major problems for
00:24:56bees. They arrive too late and miss out on important
00:25:00food sources, and plants miss out on their pollinating
00:25:03services. Warmer temperatures are also causing some
00:25:07caterpillars to emerge earlier. That affects birds
00:25:11like the Great Tit, which raises its young in tandem with the insect's
00:25:14life cycle. If the caterpillar prey has already
00:25:18pupated, it can seriously disrupt a crucial feeding period for the young
00:25:22birds. The effects of climate change on
00:25:26biodiversity are complex and often less
00:25:29visible than melting glaciers or dried-up
00:25:32rivers, because in an ecosystem,
00:25:35everything is interconnected, and when
00:25:38one species suffers, the consequences can have an
00:25:41impact on many
00:25:43others.
00:25:47Meadows and forest ecosystems are home to a remarkable number of
00:25:51species, but that diversity is now under threat. Using a wide
00:25:55range of methods, researchers in Germany are looking into what causes
00:25:58biodiversity loss. I'm...
00:26:41species and the species composition. The goal is to find out how plant
00:26:45diversity affects both wildlife and the
00:26:48soil. Researchers use a range of
00:26:51tools to measure
00:26:52that.
00:26:56Here they're testing how much sunlight makes its way through the
00:26:59vegetation to the soil.
00:27:05Something else the researchers are interested in is soil
00:27:08moisture.
00:27:12They even use a vacuum cleaner,
00:27:30unabated vacuums one cubic meter of air and
00:27:34vegetation to find out exactly which insect
00:27:37species live in the different sections of the
00:27:41them there are.
00:27:45And she checks whether there's a link between the number of plant species
00:27:48and the number of insect species on the various test
00:27:52plots.
00:27:58Another experiment aims to find out with the help of decoy
00:29:32control, which is effectively what predation is,
00:29:35increases when we have many different species in an
00:29:38ecosystem.
00:29:41The more varied and numerous plants there are per square
00:29:44meter, the more insect predators, like lacewing
00:29:48larvae that feed on aphids, or
00:29:51ladybugs. High plant diversity therefore
00:29:55promotes natural pest. control. the
00:29:58plots with the greatest plant diversity also perform best
00:30:02when it comes to soil, moisture and biomass
00:30:05production,
00:30:08plant diversity had huge positive effect on the vast
00:30:11majority of the processes we studied, and the
00:30:15more plant species there are, the more
00:30:17butterflies,
00:30:20the more beetles
00:30:21and
00:30:25the more spiders, making
00:30:27the meadow an especially productive
00:30:30ecosystem, but analyzed data from
00:30:342010 to
00:30:352020
00:30:43and in that period alone some groups declined by as much as
00:30:479% per year, when we lose
00:30:50species, we also lose the functions they perform, that's
00:30:53crucial, not only for people who enjoy walking through medow, but
00:30:57for all of us, if we no longer have pollen.