Why The World Is Running Out Of Soil

The United Nations declared soil finite and predictedcatastrophic loss within 60 years. The impact of soil degradation could total $23 trillion inlosses of food, ecosystem services and income worldwide by 2050. Soil is the habitat for over a quarter of the planet'sbiodiversity, so it plays a. very important role in mitigating climate change. Climate change cannot be separated from food insecurity,from the loss of biodiversity and from. pollution. The Rodale Institute says it starts with soil. The farm here works on regenerative, organic agriculture. We grow almost everything that you can grow in Pennsylvaniafrom corn and soybean, wheat,. oats to forages, alfalfa.. This is kale. This is actually the birthplace of modern organicagriculture. Projects we do here all are centered around improving andrebuilding soil health. We have farming system trial that's been running for 42years. It is the longest running side by side comparison of organicand conventional grain cropping systems. in North America. The decades long research has found organic agricultureproduces yields up to 40% higher during droughts,. can earn farmers greater profits and releases 40% fewercarbon emissions. How is all of that possible?. The rodale institute says it start with soil.. So when we talk about healthy soil, we are talking about allaspects of the soil, chemical, physical and. biological that should be in a perfect status to be able toproduce healthy food for us. After that, we have to take care of it and reverse that and ask, well, we can't just, just degrade it and leave it.. Millions of acres laid waste by thoughtlessness and neglect. It's a silent soil crisis and what thatmeans for the world.. Here's why we're facing a silent soils crisis and why we need to take action. We need to protect our soil and our food supply, cleandrinking water and a lot. more.. Out of the Dust bowl.. The past 100 years, the emphasis was on what can soil do forplants and what can soils do for people.. Tons of priceless topsoil.. And we're now realizing we have a lot more to do with soil than just plant and plant and grow. We're in the midst of a revolution in organic agriculture that is changing the way we eat and grow food in the U.S. and the rest of the world. We are in the middle of a renaissance in organic farming. We want to make sure that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. We don't want to be the same as the Dust Bowl, we want to create a new era of regenerative agriculture in the United States and around the world that is sustainable and regenerative and healthy for all of us. We also want to ensure that we're not the same place we were 100 years ago, when soil was the only thing we had to worry about. We've got a long way to go before we can get back to where we were in the Dustbowl, but we're getting closer to that point, and we're taking steps to ensure we're on the right track. We can't wait to see what the future holds for us, and it's going to be a very exciting time. We'll be able to look back and see how far we've come in the next 100 years. We hope to see a much healthier, more sustainable, more resilient and resilient world. It will be a better place to live in the years to come, and a much more sustainable and prosperous place to grow food and drink and grow and bathe in the water that we all rely on. We will have to work together to ensure the future of our children and our grandchildren. We all have a long road ahead of us to get to the next generation, and that's what we're all here to do. We must work together for a better, healthier, and more sustainable world.

Critical topsoil is eroding at an alarming pace due to climate change and poor farming practices. The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years. The world needs soil for farming, water filtration, climate mitigation, ecosystem services, health care and more. The impact of soil degradation could total $23 trillion in losses of food, ecosystem services and income worldwide by 2050, according to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. According to the UN, soil erosion may reduce up to 10 per cent of crop yields by 2050. That’s like removing millions of acres of farm land. 

“There are places that have already lost all of their topsoil,” Jo Handelsman, author of “A World Without Soil,” and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNBC.

“We have identified 10 soil threats in our global report … Soil erosion is number one because it’s taking place everywhere,” Ronald Vargas, the secretary of the Global Soil Partnership and Land and Water Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, told CNBC.

According to the U.N., soil erosion may reduce up to 10% of crop yields by 2050, which is the equivalent of removing millions of acres of farmland.

And when the world loses soil, food supply, clean drinking water and biodiversity are threatened.

What’s more, soil plays an important role in mitigating climate change.

Soil contains more than three times the amount of carbon in the earth’s atmosphere and four times as much in all living plants and animals combined, according to the Columbia Climate School.

 “Soil is the habitat for over a quarter of the planet’s biodiversity. Each gram of soil contains millions of cells of bacteria and fungi that play a very important role in all ecosystem services,” Reza Afshar, chief scientist at the regenerative agriculture research farm at the Rodale Institute, told CNBC.

The Rodale Institute in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, is known as the birthplace of modern organic agriculture. 

“The projects we do here are centered around improving and rebuilding soil health. We have a farming system trial that’s been running for 42 years,” Afshar said. It is the longest-running side-by-side comparison of organic and conventional grain cropping systems in North America.

The research has found regenerative, organic agriculture produces yields up to 40% higher during droughts, can earn farmers greater profits and releases 40% fewer carbon emissions than conventional agricultural practices.

How’s that possible? The Rodale Institute says it all starts with the soil.

“When we talk about healthy soil, we are talking about all aspects of the soil, chemical, physical and biological that should be in a perfect status to be able to produce healthy food for us,” Afshar said.

It’s critical, of course, because the world relies on soil for 95% of our food production. But that’s just the beginning of its importance.

“The good news is that we know enough to get to work,” Dianna Bagnall, a research soil scientist at the Soil Health Institute, told CNBC.

Watch the video above to learn more about why we’re facing a silent soil crisis, how soil can be saved and what that means for the world.

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Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem

Human trafficking is the use of force fraud. or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act in the u.s. 72. percent of reported cases of human trafficking in 2020 were related to sex trafficking. hotels and motels are some of the most common venues for sex trafficking traffickers generally use the rooms for commercial sex acts and the ability to pay in cash provides a sense of secrecy through finances. commercial sexual exploitation generates about 99 billion dollars in illegal profits globally according to the national human trafficking hotline but nakia vestal. a survivor of sex trafficking says hotel staff are sometimes inaudible most traffickers on that. scale always have a set location where they work because they're it's comfortable for them and they know the the people at the front desk know what's going on so you know for them to say oh we don't know what’s. going on if you if you see the same individual and these same girls come. every day you know whats going on in 2000 the trafficking victims protection act or. tvpa was the first bill enacted to monitor prevent and criminalize trafficking it also penalizes private entities that enable or are complicit with the illegal act. The state estimates that 24.9 million. trafficking victims worldwide at any given time at any time human traffickers prey on all ages and backgrounds exploiting them for their own profit people from historically marginalized groups are more likely to be targeted especially when it comes to labor trafficking. The covet 19 pandemic has exacerbated this issue criminals are able to abuse new hotel technology like. contactless check-in making it more difficult to spot signs of trafficking all the while waves. of sex Trafficking lawsuits continue to pile up against hotel chains in the U.S. in 2019 six major. hotels including marriott wyndham and hilton were sued by a woman for allegedly turning a. blind eye to trafficking in their franchised hotels to continue earning a profit. More frequently were motel 6 super 8 motel days in red roof and and la. quinta the low scale motels they know what to do if you have a hotel. where you have porn where you can go in and there's a point like there's. a channel you click on porn's on the tv that's. that's a red flag right there although they made up a smaller portion of. cases big name hotel companies took the top headlines that year in 2019 in 2019 257 defendants were sued for sex trafficked and. 117 of the defendants were hotels more than the four years prior combined in 2020. 149 defendants were suing for sex Trafficked and nearly half were hotels the hotels accused. more frequently were motels more often were motel6 super 8 Motels in red Roof and and and La. quintA the low Scale Motels. The us state estimated that labor trafficking workers who are in the country on temporary guest work visas are very often targeted by traffickers often because there are certain loopholes in the system that are exploiting on the sex trafficking side. It's believed that historic discrimination and all of the rippling effects that it has been believed that it's been a long time ago that the trafficking of labor workers is a problem that has never been solved. The sex trafficking of guest workers is believed to be on the up and down the us. communities as well as black and indigenous communities and youth especially runaway youth and runaway youth especially. It is also believed that the lgbtq youth and youth are at greater risk of being trafficked. The number of victims is rising due to a high influx of visitors the super bowl is thought to bring a spike in sex trafficking due to the high influx of visitors the covet 18 pandemic. The world estimates that there are more than 24 million. Trafficking victims in 2020 and the number of trafficking victims in the United States is expected to rise to more than 20 million by the end of the year. The United States estimates that the world will have more than 100,000 human trafficking cases in 2020. The U.N. estimates that in 2020 there will be more than 10,000 sex trafficking victims. in the united states. in 2020 it will be the largest single year of trafficking in the world. It will also be the biggest year for human trafficking since the fall of 9/11. There will be an increase in trafficking victims and sex trafficking is estimated to take place in the next five years. The goal is to reduce the number of trafficking victims by 50 per cent by 20 per cent. There is a need to stop the trafficking of labor and sex trafficking in the next three years. There are plans to launch a task force that will focus on preventing and ending the sex  trafficking of women and children in the  United States. The  United States and girls in the United States.

Human trafficking generates about $150 billion a year globally in illegal profits. Hotels and motels are a common venue for sex trafficking due to ease of access for buyers, ability to pay in cash and maintain secrecy through finances, and lack of facility maintenance. What are the major hotel chains doing to curb human trafficking on their properties?

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HOW IT WORKS: The International Space Station

Sonny Williams shows us around the International Space Station. He explains how to use the bathroom and how to live in space like normal like at home. He also shows us how to brush your teeth and wash your face in space. Sonny Williams: "I wouldn't recommend at home I'm only up. here for four months so it's not that bad""I'm Sonny Williams. I'm up here on the International space Station. I'll show you around the space station. What do you do?" "What do you doing?" "I'm going in right now you can follow. me if you want so I'm inside it's sort of like a little phone booth. but it's pretty comfy I've got a sleeping bag right here that we sleep in" "I've got it sleeping feeling like I'm standing up right now but like you saw him. on the floor but it doesn't matter if I turn over and I sleep upside. down I can't have it I don't have any sensation in my head that tells. me that I'm upside down so it really doesn'tmatter the sleep station is also. like alittle office" "You know you can sleep in any orientation I. have it sleeping  and you'll have some water come out water is pretty neat up in space. it'll stick to your toothbrush and it will make a big bubble and that's just. my surface tension and then you can drink it" "It's like mouthwash but it tastes a little gross or you can just spit it out in a paper towel and then I'm closing it up and it smells a little bit so I make things get a lot of things get go and it's a pretty good way to get things going" "What kind of toilet paper do you have?" "We have some Russian wipes which are a little coarse because sometimes it does get messy because it gets it mixed up which is nice this is yellows for number one and number two and I might add it's so coded so you don't really get it really you don’t really want to add it to the list" "There's a little moon on the outside this is our orbital outhouse right here [Music] and of. course it serves for two functions number two right here" "The bathroom essentially you get up in the morning and we. have a little kit and it has all the essential things that you need like. your a tooth brush and toothpaste and brush see how much better the brush. makes my hair look I'm just joking it still stands up straight it's always going to stand up straight while you're up inspace" "So what's the bathroom like?" "Well you can do a little suspension by hanging by hanging on right here and doing. doing. number one  and doing  two and doing  number two" "That's what I'm doing right here right here is number one so there's a sort of two functions but you know again all you have to do is turn yourself and your. reference changes the reason I'm bringing that up is because this is where four out. of six of us sleep and so people always ask about sleeping in space" "How do you actually live. in space?" "You just have to have pretty good aim and you'll be sure to be ready to let go and you're ready to go" "And that's the only thing I wouldn't advise at home" "We don't. fly all over the place but you can't fly all around the place" "This is a little you might have noticed a. littlemoon on theOutside this is nice and you can also get it mixed  up which  is nice" "When you're in space you can get it all mixed up and get it to get messy" "If you want to go to the bathroom you can go to a different part of the station and get some water and then get it out of the way" "Let's take a. look at that little piece of work come on and [ music] here we are at. the throne this is awesome you might see the little you may have noticed the little" "A little Moon on theoutside this is the little moon," "I'll have a couple little toys" "These are some of the things that make it kind of like home" and "that's the way to make it feel like home." "I don't know if you're going to be able to go back to your home in the next few weeks or a few months" "Where are you going to go for a vacation" "Have you ever been on a vacation on the ISS?" "Yes, I'm going to tell you how to get back to Earth. I've been on one of the places where you can take a break from your daily life in a way that makes it feel a little more like home in a different way"

This explains each interior area, crew living quarters, and scientific equipment.

Why GM Is Getting Into Electric Boats

General Motors recentlyinvested $150 million in. Seattle based startup PureWatercraft. The introduction of zero-emission watercraft issignificant. About 8% of the energy inthe gasoline ends up pushing the boat, and 92% doesthings you don't want, like turbulence, noise and heat. Sales of powerboats were up12% in 2020, with more than. 310,000 new sales, thehighest numbers since before. the 2008 recession. But converting a boat toelectric isn't as straightforward as droppingin a battery and a motor from a car. The amount ofenergy required to move through water is fargreater than what a vehicle. on the ground experiences. The faster you go, the moredrag you can feel. The electric motor is builtfor this.. It has a wide, efficientband, efficient at every. RPM, full torque at zeroRPM, right when it starts up. So this is exactly whatelectric motors are good at. The infrastructure isalready in place to allow. for charging. Most public marinas havepower pedestals on the docks. already. They don't have toinstall new power lines to. charge boats. The average age of boat buyer has fallen for the firsttime in decades, and a new. population is looking to goboating. Right now we're going aboutthree and a half miles an hour and the boat is using400 watts.. So about the power of fourold incandescent light bulbs.. Boating is a segment that'sa natural fit for electrification. And everything's deadnearby.. Like electric vehicles,switching to an electric boat motor reduces the needfor maintenance.. Our coolant system ispermanently sealed, so it. never has to be topped off. All of thesethings are things that need. to be serviced often in agas outboard.. The reduced maintenance, theease of ownership will. actually end up potentiallybeing cheaper for the consumer over the lifetimeof the product.. And the infrastructure is already in place, so there's no need for new infrastructure to be built to charge electric boats. It's just a matter of swapping out the battery and the motor from the car to the electric boat. And it's just as easy to charge the boat from the dock as it is to charge an electric car. It doesn't need to be a huge investment, just a few hundred dollars a time. It can be done in a few minutes, and it doesn't require a lot of money. It just takes a little time to get used to the new motor and the new gear set. And the motor and gear set, and the coolant and coolant, and all of the other parts that go along with it, are all in one place. It is a very simple process to switch from an inboard to an outboard. It takes about a minute to change from the inboard motor to the outboard motor, and then a few seconds to change the gear set from the electric motor to a traditional outboard engine. The process is very similar to that of a car, but it's a lot faster and more efficient. It also reduces the amount of energy required to push the boat through the water. It reduces the energy needed to push it through water by about 8% to 10%. It's the same amount that a car would use to push a car through the same number of gallons of gas. It uses about 3.5 times as much energy as a car does. It has the same torque at 0.5 revolutions per minute. It does not use as much power as the car does to move the same distance in the same speed. There is no fuel depots near Lake Tahoe. It will be cheaper to run the boat than to run a car in the lake near thosefuel depots on LakeTahoe.. And it is more environmentally friendly to use an electric motor than to use a gas-powered one.

Everything is going electric, including boats. General Motors recently invested $150 million in one start-up, Pure Watercraft, to build an electric pontoon boat. And several others are working to bring their own battery-powered offerings to market. Could boating be the next industry to go electric after cars?

Introduction: 2:00
Chapter 1, Electrifying boats: 2:10
Chapter 2, Electric boat start-ups: 4:10
Chapter 3, Demand and bigger vessels: 9:00

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How Walmart Is Betting Big On Stores To Catch Amazon In E-commerce

Amazon is the clear leader with 39.5% of the market share compared to Walmart's 7%. Last year, people spent more on Amazonthen at Walmart for the first time. Walmart's new head ofe-commerce Tom Ward talks to CNBC about his big plans for catching Amazon online. Walmart employsmore people than any other company in the world, and90% of Americans live within. 10 miles of a Walmart. Yetwhen it comes to e commerce,. Amazon is theclear leaderwith39.5%. Walmart's got a new playbook and new leadership as it races to catch up. It's added membership program Walmart+ to competewith Prime, invested heavily. in local delivery programsin homes and with drones,. and started packing andshipping orders for third-party sellers as itworks to entice them to Walmart.com. Walmart bought discount onlineretailer Jet.com for $3.3 billion in 2016, tapping co-founderMark Lore to lead e-commerce. In 2018, it spent big to get into thebooming online market in India with Flipkart, and also bought online fashion brands like Bonobos andEloquii. Then in 2020,. Walmart shut downJet.com,although CEO Doug McMillon says he would buy it allover again. Walmart also also saw the launch ofWalmart+ and Walmart. Fulfillment Services torival Fulfilled. That's the term used to. differentiate items sold bythird-party seller from the first-party merchandisebought and sold by Walmart. Walmart is looking at Amazon'smarket share saying how can. we grow this market share? We need more sellers. We. need more selection.. Customers trust us for foodand consumables, but they're looking for every item that they couldthink of. We want to make sure that we're able to dothat for them.. Walmart was founded in 1962by Sam Walton, growing to nearly 2,000 stores by thetime Jeff Bezos founded. Amazon in 1994. Despite itsin-store dominance, Walmart was notoriously slow to thee-commerce game, not launching its third- partymarketplace until 2009. It didn't make real headwayuntil 2016, when Walmart bought discounts online retailerJet. com. In 2020, Walmartpartnered with Shopify to bring thousands ofmom-and-pop sellers to. Walmart’s marketplace. The Walmart. brand really has extended toreach all kinds of people: affluent customers, youngercustomers, urban customers.. We were going to need abrand to be able to use to attract some of the brandsthat did not yet want to be in our stores. Walmart. has 4,700 locationsacross the U.S. and if the. store acts like afulfillment center, we can. send those items theshortest distance in the fastest time. Over the past few years,Walmart's built more than 30 warehouses like this, somewith robots and people,. entirely dedicated tofulfilling online orders.. Workers at stores are alsopicking and packing online orders, as Walmart turnsdozens of stores into micro-fulfillments centers. Walmart has more than 1,500 stores in the United States, including more than 100 in the Midwest, and more than 200 in the South, and 1,000 in the Northeast, and the majority of them are in the Kansas City, Kansas City and Houston areas. It also has a presence in more than 40 states. It has more stores in Europe, Canada, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, as well as in the Asia-Pacific, and in the Middle East and Latin America. The company also has stores in Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, the Caribbean, the Pacific and the South Africa. It is based in Bentonville, Arkansas, and has a distribution center in McHenry, Arkansas. It employs more than 3,000 people.

Walmart employs more people than any other company in the world and is the country’s largest grocer. But when it comes to e-commerce, Amazon is the clear leader, with 39.5% of the market share compared to Walmart’s 7%. Now Walmart has ambitious new plans, and new leadership, to try and catch up. CNBC got an exclusive interview with Walmart’s new e-commerce chief Tom Ward to hear how it plans to leverage its 4,700+ U.S. stores to entice sellers to Walmart and speed up local delivery. Because 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart, using stores as micro-fulfillment centers is helping Walmart expand programs like drone delivery and InHome delivery straight into customer refrigerators.

00:00 -- Intro
02:03 -- Playing catch-up
05:47 -- Selling on Walmart vs. Amazon
09:25 -- In-store and grocery advantage
12:34 -- Speeding up delivery

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These Kids Are Skipping College to Be TikTok Famous

<h1>TikTok: The Fastest Growing Social Media Phenomenon</h1><div><strong><br>Introduction<br></strong><br></div><div>TikTok has quickly become the fastest growing social media platform in the world, boasting around a billion active users. The app's astonishing growth was facilitated by the global crisis that forced people into lockdown, making TikTok the most downloaded app worldwide.<br><br></div><div><br></div><h1><strong>TikTok's Diverse Content</strong></h1><div><br></div><div>Famous for its ubiquitous dance trends, TikTok has evolved into a gateway for Gen Z and younger millennials to find their niche. The platform now hosts a wide variety of content, from makeup tutorials and unlicensed psychotherapy to questionable financial advice and boorish humor.<br><br></div><div><br></div><h1><strong>Monetizing TikTok Fame</strong></h1><div><br></div><div>The TikTok community, predominantly consisting of young users, has discovered ways to monetize their online presence. Some influencers have even given up on traditional education and career paths to focus on their TikTok fame.<br><br></div><div><br></div><h1>A Day in the Life of TikTok Creators</h1><div><br></div><div>At the "Vault House," a residence for TikTok influencers, the occupants start their day by brainstorming content ideas, often involving popular trends like the "kiss or slap" challenge. Despite having individual accounts, these creators collaborate and support each other in their pursuits.<br><br></div><div><br></div><h1>Turning TikTok Success into Profit</h1><div><br></div><div>Many TikTok creators initially began making videos for fun, only realizing the potential for profit when they were approached by brands or fans willing to pay for their content. For some, TikTok fame has provided a more lucrative and enjoyable alternative to traditional employment.<br><br></div><div><br></div><h1><strong>The Future of TikTok Fame</strong></h1><div><br></div><div>The sustainability of TikTok stardom remains uncertain, but for now, these young influencers continue to create content that captivates millions of viewers. Each creator carves out their own niche, attempting to maintain relevance and capitalize on the opportunities that come with their newfound fame.<br><br></div><div>Key Points<br><br></div><ul><li>TikTok has over a billion active users and is the fastest growing social media platform.</li><li>The platform offers diverse content, from dance trends to makeup tutorials and financial advice.</li><li>TikTok creators have found ways to monetize their fame, sometimes giving up traditional education and career paths.</li><li>Influencers often collaborate with each other, both on content creation and promotion.</li><li>The future of TikTok stardom is uncertain, but creators continue to captivate millions of viewers by maintaining their unique niches.</li></ul><div><br>In conclusion, TikTok has emerged as a powerful social media platform that has not only provided entertainment to millions of users but also opened doors for young creators to pursue non-traditional paths to success. As the platform evolves, it will be interesting to see how these influencers adapt and continue to thrive in the ever-changing digital landscape.</div>

Young adults are shunning college and moving to Los Angeles to make some bank off of the hottest social media platform.

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The Hidden Costs Of Amazon Shipping And Returns

Amazon has been agame changer in the reverse logistics world because ofhow easy the returns are from all those returns. The idea that a driver feelslike he or she can't eat. lunch or go to the bathroomis a problem. I've been tired, exhausted,long days. People are. hitting folks incrosswalks. They are hurting their ownbodies because they're so afraid of losing their. jobsbecause they have to get these routes done. There's a lot of aspects ofthe job that are really enjoyable. You get a lot. ofexercise. The customers are reallyhappy to see you. They're getting whateverthe heck they ordered. But. there's things thatneed to be fixed. From urinating in bottles torunning stop signs, routes that. lead drivers to runacross traffic dog bites and cameras recording insidevans at all times. We spoke with currentdrivers and took. a ride with former driver AdrianWilliams to see where she delivered for Amazon. FromNovember 2019. to July 2020, I would averagebetween like 150 to 180, sometimes 190 packages. Amazon pretty much hascontrol. over the operation. It's Amazon's vans, it'sAmazon's insurance. They’re providing it at adiscount. Amazon Logistics. It’s grown toinclude everything from semi trucks to Amazon airplanes, individual flex drivers. And. since 2018, fleets ofvans run by delivery service partners or DSPs. Since 2018, Amazon has beenbuilding out its network of these independentcontractors. More than 2000 of them across the U.S., with more than 2000 in total. Amazon has built an in-housenetwork called. Amazon Log logistics. The expectation is Just go,go, go, go,. go, going, go at your own cost. Amazon. Logistics is a joint venture between Amazon and a number of other companies, including UPS, the Postal Service and to a lesserdegree, FedEx for the heavy. lift of last mile deliverywas 2013. They had a holiday seasonwas a fiasco in terms. of late and missed deliveries. A lot of it had to do withweather. It was at that pointthat Jeff Bezos said, we can't entrust this businessentirely to other people. So Amazon built a network of independent delivery partners. The network has grown to include more than 2,000 delivery partners across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, with more in the works. Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce company and has more than 100,000 drivers across the world. It is also the largest online retailer in the world, with a market share of more than 40 per cent. It also has one of the highest profit margins in the retail industry. The company has invested more than $1billion in the past three years. It has also invested $1.5billion in new technology to make it easier for people to order online and get their goods in the mail faster and more easily. Amazon's delivery network is the largest in the US and Canada, with over 2,500 delivery partners in total, including more than 1,000 in Canada and more than 200 in the UK. Amazon also has a team of delivery partners around the world to help with last-mile delivery, including in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. This is where I used to loadout to ten right there. That's the equivalent ofwaste produced by. 3.3 million Americans in ayear. I have 113 stops today, so I'm going to start with this one. Then. I go up. Then down, up, down,. up,down, up,. down, down,up, down. Up,down. up, up and down. What's going on? Is yourgirl Charlene, the. Queen, coming to you guys with the video of the day in the life of an. Amazon deliverydriver?

Buying and returning on Amazon may seem extremely easy, but that simplicity comes at a cost.

Amazon has more than 115,000 drivers working under independent small businesses - Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs - who deliver Prime packages to doorsteps with one-day shipping. This is a large part of how Amazon delivers packages so quickly. CNBC talked to current and former Amazon DSP drivers about the pressures of the job. From urinating in bottles to running stop signs, routes that lead drivers to run across traffic, dog bites and cameras recording inside vans at all times - some of the 115,000 DSP drivers have voiced big concerns.

But once you receive your Amazon order, if there's any reason you are on happy, more than likely it can be returned. Sending back an online order has never been easier. It’s often free for the customer, with some retailers even allowing customers to keep the item while offering a full refund. Amazon returns can be dropped off at Kohl’s, UPS or Whole Foods without boxing it up or even printing a label.

But there’s a darker side to the record number of returns flooding warehouses after the holidays.

“From all those returns, there’s now nearly 6 billion pounds of landfill waste generated a year and 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions as well,” said Tobin Moore, CEO of returns solution provider Optoro. “That’s the equivalent of the waste produced by 3.3 million Americans in a year.”

Moore says online purchases are at least three times more likely to be returned than items bought in a store. In 2021, a record $761 billion of merchandise was returned, according to estimates in a new report from the National Retail Federation. That report says 10.3% of those returns were fraudulent. Meanwhile, Amazon third-party sellers told CNBC they end up throwing away about a third of returned items.

At the head of the pack, Amazon has received mounting criticism over the destruction of millions of items. Now the e-commerce giant says it’s “working toward a goal of zero product disposal.” Last year, it launched new programs to give sellers like Clausen new options to resell returns, or send them to be auctioned off on the liquidation market.

This record number of online returns has created a booming $644 billion liquidation market. As supply chain backlogs cause shortages of new goods and Gen Z shoppers demand more sustainable retail options, pain points for one sector of retail are big business for another.

The nation's only major public liquidator, Liquidity Services, resells unclaimed mail, items left at TSA checkpoints, and outdated military vehicles. It also refurbishes highly sought after electronics, from noise-canceling headphones to the machines that make microchips.

CNBC takes you on an exclusive tour inside a Liquidity Services returns warehouse outside Dallas, Texas, where unwanted goods from Amazon and Target are stacked to the ceiling before being resold on Liquidation.com or a variety of other marketplaces.

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The Vigilante Group Of New Yorkers Who Hunt Rats At Night

The city's rat reduction team employs a two-pronged approach to its job. The city's Health Department is focused their efforts on the worst rat reservoirs. While the city does its rat work by day another group of New Yorkers take. to the streets at night to reduce the number of rats one foul beast at a time or sometimes two. The writers alley trencher fed society is a nocturnal hunting. party or terrier owners and other small dogs who were originally bred to chase rats. into their holes and bring them out dead just right under the Williamsburg Bridge on the Lower East Side and the hunt is just about to begin Richard Reynolds has been part of this rodent death squad for over 30 years and although their effect. on the city's overall rat population is extremely negligible it's a good workout for their. dogs and it keeps their instincts sharp when rats are cornered they will run anywhere. okay alright they'll run up your pant leg so to prevent that we're going. to duct tape your pants into my sock. sir if I took my pants with my socks I won't that won't do the. Trekker how do you guys do are you blooded after your dog gets your first. its first rat I can't help but notice I'm the only one with duct tape. around this club's Thomas this is Mars Mars is a scent dog you and Mars. are gonna go right into the bags and he's gonna try to find a rat. and push it out to the other door okay on the count of three one. two three [Music] [Applause] [ music] that's a wrap [Music], gonna come around the back. there's a big Warren over there there's like sometimes 30 40 of them I want. everybody on leash until we're all set up and then we flesh again still eyes. [Music]. got it shut your ass right up dinner how does credit work if Ma. flushed it if Ma flushed it up but another dog caught it and flushed it you go get it up what a thing you go do! [Music]: The city launched a. 32 million dollar initiative in the last year to rid New York of its signature. rodents concentrating on hyper infested rat reservoirs such as this park behind me well I. ensure this works falls on the City Health Department whose own rat Department is headed. up by rats Bert Carolyn Bragdon with her team rat inspectors rat faders round stoppage. errs and rat erasers all whom we are about to meet and hopefully harass rattling. why rats a problem we think of rats really as a quality of life issue. rats are are gross you know people don't want to go to the park and. see rats but there are also other concerns you know rests their nesting underneath the. sidewalk that sidewalk can cave in if they're trying to get into a building they. could be chewing or knowing or damaging on the doors the rats cause a lot. of financial harm to New York City infrastructure this summer the rats go in between as smart as if it can be. they made these homes they create they own the big oh yeah I mean I. mean it's disgusting building off earlier initiatives like the installation of over 400 solar-powered rap. proof trash cans the city could do without the number is loose because rats. are sneaky and they breed like rats fighting this Brown scourge. It's a group effort okay okay it's good. good. team yeah all right. yo look at the size of this one account because it's really a lot to finish it really really that's still a lot of this ones the one account that's really one in account because  it's preggers and I don't wear gloves and I tried not to chew fingernails what a good job but I no but I tried to not to get some rats to chew my fingernail what you have hey that's how we do. watch the capacitor on the capacitor and I said it's like the majority of the dogs were bred for it. then we do what they do like if we do some rats then we kill some rats like it's what they were bred along with the dogs along with it. like the Queens Queens Queens and New York Queens and Queens and Staten Island and the Upper East Side. The rats are smart and smart and they make these rat reservoirs nestled in and. around public housing projects they go inBetween as smart and as smart. They make these homes and they create the big and the big. They're just going to quickly and painlessly go to sleep this is like yeah here we go. ready we're try to knock them down enough so that they don't just rebound immediately and they're going to be able to rebound immediately by using special Rattus idly formulated dry ice basically with dry ice they're just. going to just kill them.

Rats aren't only a part of New York City’s underground — they're an inseparable part of its pop culture. There’s Master Splinter from the Ninja Turtles, Pizza Rat, and even Cannibal Rat. But for every celebrity rat, there’s another 250,000 to 2 million anonymous rodents living in the city — and the city health department is fighting to bring down. 

The battle can be deadly. Last year, three people in a Bronx city block contracted leptospirosis through rat urine. Only two survived.

To combat the problem, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a $32 million initiative to rid New York of its signature rodents, concentrating on hyper-infested areas that the city describes as "rat reservoirs."

Multiple city agencies are currently focusing their efforts around public housing buildings, where they plan to replace dirt basement floors, block passageways and amp up trapping, baiting and poisoning efforts.They also apply dry ice to the rats’ burrow systems, effectively suffocating them as the carbon dioxide gets released while the ice melts.

But if all else fails, a small group of dedicated rat hunters are ready to step in.

When dusk settles, Richard Reynolds and his vigilante rat hunters known as “The Ryders Alley Trencher-Fed Society” — or R.A.T.S for short — roam lower Manhattan’s streets and dumpsters, keeping their dogs’ instincts sharp and the hunting tradition alive.

In the three decades Richard has been hunting rats with his dogs, he says he must have killed thousands of rats. But he doesn’t really keep track.

A hunter through and through, he only counts the ones that get away. 

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Pirates are Running Wild off West Africa’s Coast | System Error

part1, How many people? If you look at the map of the Niger Delta, you can see the number of people, whohave been kidnapped by pirates. The story, of how these gangs became the most dangerousthreat. to maritime trade begins over 60 years ago, when oil, was first discoveredby Shell-BP in. Nigeria. At the time, Somalia wasthe epicenter of maritime piracy. Pirates would board vessels,drop anchor, and. ask for ransom money. The threats provoked, a responsenot seen since World War II, when. all five permanent membersof the UN Security Council agreed to, deploy armed forceson the Somali. coast. Since then, piracy on the east coastof Africa. has, been in sharp decline. But on the continent’sopposite coast, a new band of pirates. have emerged.. Somali, pirates have beenattacking ships in the seas off their coastfor years. Pirates are still. holdingclose to 500 hostages, and more than 20 ships. The only viable long-term solutionto the Somali pirate ship problem is to, restore law. and orderin Somalia, including in its waters. So why have these watersbecome a magnet for maritime crime? And why are. countriesstruggling to keep pirates, at bay? This is the System Error that has led to. piracy thrivingoff the coast of West Africa.,  This is our 27th day in. captivity. Our kidnappers are losing patience. They are concerned thatthere, has been no response at. all to their demands for money. When they put you on the phonewith your people,. they, will threaten that if you do notmake the money they demand available, you are. going to be killed., Hostages are held until ransoms, which have been known to reachmillions. of dollars, are paid up. Many haven’t been as lucky. In 2009, a British couple sailingfrom the, Seychelles to. Tanzania were abducted by Somali pirates. Pirates attackedan oil supply vessel, taking the captainand chief. engineer, hostage. After a 24. hour ordeal,the pirates abandoned the ship. In January, 2021, heavily. armed pirates successfullybroke into a Turkish vessel. Cramped. inside, the crew agonized as the piratestried to force their, way in. One seafarer was killed. Fifteen others were kidnappedand. taken, to Niger Delta before being releasedfor an undisclosed ransom. Once captured at, sea, those. kidnapped are takento swampy mangrove forests. The. pirates are armedwith sophisticated weapons, some of, which the securityoperatives do not have. They move. on the waterways, and basically, they see their targetsand they, attack. They take the peoplethey. want to take hostage, and then zoom into thin air. Today, piracy in West. Africais on the rise., Since 2020, 180 seafarershave been kidnapped as they passed through what’sbecome. known as “pirate alley.” This is not the first time that pirates have taken hostages at sea. In October 2020, a chemical tankerwas boarded by. pirates in the Gulf, of Guineaoff the west coast of Africa. The pirates,, armed with AK-47sand powerful speedboats are from the NigerDelta. With the threat of pirate attacks on the coastof West Africa, the government of Niger, has stepped up this this is this is the system Error. Pirate attack, pirate attack., Ninety-seven percentof recent kidnappings at. sea occurred in the waters off the Gulf of Guinea, making this region that stretchesfrom Gabon, to Liberia. the piracy hotspot of the world. Since production of oil in the. Niger Delta began in the 1960s, it hasbeen a source of conflict. Shell was the first to exportoil from Nigeria in 1958. But, over the years, that success has come at. great costto the local, populationto the state of Niger. Niger, is a delta state, where the oil, is extracted from the ground. The oil is spilled into the groundf the local Niger Delta. This oil, has polluted it, which causes all the fish to. die. This is what you can expect son my son. This. oil has been spilled, into the local son my. This oil. has been pumped into the Niger, Delta, and it has been turned into oillike s** oillike the oil. With this oil, what can you expect you, to see? You can expect to see you, tired you, struggle to get the oil back. You can see what you’re going to have to go back to

Today, 97 percent of kidnappings at sea take place in the Gulf of Guinea, making this region the piracy hotspot of the world. But why is piracy thriving in these waters? 

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