If not, then they choose the measures on site. If it’s safe, trucks take the rockets out. If there is shelling, we pack up and go to the office,” 41-year-old Yurii, who would only provide his first name, said on Tuesday (April 26).Oleksii, 43, described the rocket attacks as “scary” but manageable, since they often occur at night.“Then people come and check the fields, and specialists are called in. We fill up the gas tank and then go to fields. He now mans a tractor in a bulletproof vest and a ballistic helmet provided by his employer.Although shelling in his area has increased in recent weeks, Yurii and his colleague Oleksii are determined to plow the fields this spring.“We go out, pass the checkpoints, get to work, drink tea and coffee, put on our vests and go. STORY: Only a week after the war started, grad rockets began falling right next door to the fields where contract farmer Yurii worked in Zaporizhzhia region. We made a diagnosis, and many parts of these grass areas were ornamental and not functional."The local government plans to transform spaces alongside roads and highways from green spaces into sustainable gardens with plants that consume little water and use drip irrigation(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HEAD OF GREEN AREAS IN THE CITY'S UP-MARKET DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCIA, VALENTINA VEGA, SAYING:"It saves almost 90% of water compared to a traditional landscaping system." Most of these 730,000 square meters were composed of grass. The grass is one of the most water-consuming species, consuming around six liters per square meter.
Providencia has 730,000 square meters of green spaces, most of them with grass. STORY: Grass is becoming a rare luxury in Chile's capitalLocation: Santiago, Chile A decade-long drought has forced the city to roll out emergency measures to limit water use and led authorities and landscapers to replace green plants with desert flora(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) HEAD OF GREEN AREAS IN THE CITY'S UP-MARKET DISTRICT OF PROVIDENCIA, VALENTINA VEGA, SAYING:"2021 was one of the driest years in Chile's history. It also calls ways to reduce demand – by reusing sand from recycled materials like concrete and from the waste left over from mining. So what are the solutions? The UN recommends a ban on beach extraction and to set an international standard for marine dredging as it harms ocean biodiversity. This puts coastlines more at risk to the impact of climate change such as more powerful storms. So, we are going to see a lot of impacts that is the crisis that is looming and that we want to avert.” Demand is now seen as shifting to Africa where villagers often remove sand from lakes to beaches to build growing cities. Meanwhile, the longest river in Southeast Asia, the Mekong River, is sinking.Pascal Peudzzi is the UN Environment Program Director:“There is so much sand taken out of the Mekong delta that the delta is sinking, also because of water’s withdrawing and on top of that, you have sea level rise, so you’re losing ground, you’re getting more salinization of these fertile soils. Removal like this is happening around the world to feed construction.
That means ocean water is heading inland and bringing salt-water crocodiles with it. One example is a Sri Lankan river where sand removal reversed the water flow.
Environment Programme) “It’s renewing at a geological rate, and we are extracting it at such a fast rate.” Let’s take a look at what is causing the damage and where.Sand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after water.It's used in glass, concrete and constriction materials but it's use is largely ungoverned, meaning we are consuming it faster than it can be replaced by geological processes that take hundreds of thousands of years.Global consumption has tripled over two decades to reach 50 billion tonnes a year - that's the equivalent of about 37 pounds per person each day.Sand extraction is harming rivers, coastlines and could even wipe out small islands. They’ve called for urgent action to avert it, including a ban on mining beaches for their sand. STORY: The world faces a looming sand crisis, the UN has warned as the world’s population surges.
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