The clock bring new planets s. O. S. From palau in the western pacific a beacon in an ocean of change where despite the warming in the city the caisson coral reefs here are in pristine condition but the paddle to save them is intense. Allows coral reefs defying the odds their stunning amazingly intact for now but around the world briefs are being decimated by bleaching events pitt will see the pioneering science taking place in the battle against nation warming and the efforts to conserve coral and fish the spectacular sight of 2000000 golden jellyfish a unique subspecies threatened by Climate Change but here the plights of the 2000000 Pacific Island is facing the peril of the Climate CrisisSea Level Rise is a global problem in europe will speak to those trying to make life on top of the water a reality. Welcome to planet as in west from one of the front lines of the Climate Crisis 1500 kilometers in that direction lies the philippines Papua New Guinea is 1500 kilometers in that direction we are surrounded by ocean. Her lao is an archipelago of hundreds of islands a pristine environment with unique biodiversity but the very thing that is not to the people here is now what threatens them and their way of life. Across the globe oceans a warming marine life is dying the water is steadily rising and thats a problem for hundreds of millions of people who live on the worlds coastlines residents of cities like shanghai miami lagos Rio De Janeiro oh threatens down the line unless things improve were looking at climate refugees on a massive scale but as the Pacific Island nations that all the most threatened and the least here imply how its not just the people but the extraordinary ecosystems that are in the firing line it is an extraordinary sight exposed structures of ancient coral reef framed in an expensive took ois the requirements of palau a unesco World Heritage site and beneath the surface the profusion and variety of life is stunning one of the highest rates of biodiversity on the planet but the challenge is a new worse in amongst a jumble of islands a series of marine lakes hold more one does this is. A lake it is connected to the sea but only through a series of small correction fishes in the rogue its effectively isolated a sealed ecosystem and beneath the surface lies a unique subspecies. Golden jellyfish theyve evolved to Harvest Energy directly from sunlight there are more than 2000000 of them and indeed thats a significant reduction in the pos there have been as many as 30000000 in this lake but fluctuations in the weather have recently taken a toll. The biggest challenge that we face in terms of the jellyfish snake is Climate Change very recently within the past. Year and a half to 2 year saw. The golden jellyfish that the site is famous for around the world completely disappear because of Climate Change the salinity of the lake grow so the temperature of the water the priest. As you might expect the range of biodiversity and plow is a big tourist draw theres an estimated 100000. 00 visitors a year here 5 times the local population above and below the water the sites a carefully monitored everyone has to buy a permit and regulation applies to to the fishing industry these ranges are on the lookout for Illegal Fishing in protected so called notes implemented to try and conserved when giving free species along the coast which is targeted by unscrupulous foreign vessels for the commercial fishermen and illegal fish share it using their big ships mothership so its everything from giant clams to sure chickens to secure cumbers to fish and then from next year the marine protected area will be massively extended into the open ocean which will restrict some touches like this tuna bound for japan but come 2020 all the specials will can only be fitting that 20 percent of the water and the reason for that is that we want to make sure that 80 percent of. The ensure this is the inability of the morton resource were seeing that when we do. A given area a refuge of Conservation Area you can see as 5 times as much space in an area with open. There is another ultimately overriding concern not just on plough but for the 2000000 islanders across the pacific Sea Level Rise 100 has lived here for decades and he says full moon tides are getting higher and higher and that can have a devastating effect if more than 40 years say the same and the 1st time ive seen these kind of. Hi thanks coming in its hard because you have to find another place to move to and if you dont have the money to build a new house then you wont be able to do that so pretty people are pretty much to stop the wonders of this part of the pacific on many that say to other precious allow is standing tough when it comes to environmental protections but its people are going to need all the resolve they can muster in the coming years now the plows president is a veteran campaigner in the world stage fighting to protect island nations while best still time lets hear now what president tommy remain a south had to say when he addressed World Leaders at the u. N. General assembly in september allow his some of the most well preserved coral reefs ecosystems in the world however we now face many challenges brought on by a globalized world. Do they local fishermen are not the only ones trolling our waters and Climate Crisis threatens to render island lives in livelihoods untenable well i interviewed the president here in person author more about the pressures that palau is placing from Climate Change every food more now that means every month. We have households along the coastline that literally have to abandon their places and go in and stay the the weekend or a couple of days until the full moon tide resides thats how serious it is you cant park in your own backyard anymore so she level rise is a is a dramatic thing it salt water is seeping into our a critical chill farm so its affecting our foot security. And of course the biggest threats. The frequency of storms and natural disasters typhoons you can see it today this is supposed to be a dry month but here we are were going through storms after storms for People Living away from the pacific and away from the front line here its very hard for them to make the connection with how serious the Climate Crisis is what would you say to them were small but were the window through what can eventually happen to the rest of the world. Were small but. The options that were taking here can also have a scale of value to what the world needs to do in order to ensure humankind issue for the next generation believe me this is this is something thats going to catch like a wildfire and we are on the beginning of the wildfire but eventually it will for spread so dont trump has now started the process of pulling out of the Paris Agreement what do you make of that were not going to flinch about these you know its a lost opportunity for the United States a lot of these things could have been accomplished more faster and meaningful if the capability of the u. S. Would have been there along with china in the europa and all the you know in the eating contests but its a sad thing because its again i think its a nomics over real matters so when you wrap up here at the office when you go home and you sit on your veranda and look out to see what goes through your mind do you have room for optimism. If i dont have some hope. You can be the worst feeling of any human being so i have to retain some sense of hope i have to think that. That there is there are solutions. And that everything will come together thats the hope but im. Heading out to the car race now and later in the program well learn more about the extensive science going on here in the 1st whats the world doing about rising sea levels and the prospect of millions of people displaced for more lets cross to mariana and go. Thanks nick our planet as around one degree celsius warmer than preindustrial times and Scientists Say were on track to go up by another half a degree by 2030 and so past that if Greenhouse Gas emissions keep going up now half a degree may not sound like much but the uns body dealing with the science on Climate Change the i. P. C. C. Says it will cause subtle but significant shifts and long term with the passions so drawing on the work of analysts brief has an insight into what huff a degree means theres a 10 percent chance of an arctic summer without ice at least once before we had a one and a half degree rise and you can take that up to an 80 percent chance before 2 degree rise the number of people exposed to severe drought will go up on average by more than 130000000 with a 1. 5 degree rise and almost 200000000 at 2 degrees and the number of people flooded in coastal areas is projected to go up by at least 28000000 people every year by 2055 in a one and a half degree world and 30000000 each year with a 2 degree rise half a degree will kill between 70 and 90 percent of the worlds coral scientists predict and squeeze by half the habitats of 6 percent of insects creating a cascade of negative effects. For millions of people worldwide a one degree celsius rise in global temperature is already an emergency forced from their homes by crop failures floods fires extreme weather and rising ses aljazeera as heidi showcased for travel to the alaskan coastal village of new talk with 350 native alaskans a heaven to move. 2000 years ago the you pick people began sheltering in the embrace of the ningaloo river to endure alaskas winters. For millennia the water brought food and life but now it brings destruction. Albertine a charles was born in the village of newtok like her ancestors before her but the land is slipping away beneath her feet it used to be further down. The road. 20 feet maybe you know its for the Sea Level Rise stronger storms and melting permafrost is putting an end to human civilization on this patch of the alaskan tundra about 25 meters of land crumbles away each year everything man builds collapses atop the melting ground the garbage landfill is now under water so to the boat dock and soon charles is home will also teeter over the edge or to sink if thats what the elders satirise say shown that really just going to sing so the whole village of 350 people is moving to Higher Ground to. Newtok was among the 1st communities in the world to recognize the dangers of our warming planet even in the 1990 s. The Tribal Council knew it was in a race against time and after decades of planning finally the day to move has arrived were on our way now its a new tops future. 15 kilometers from the old village atop solid volcanic rock a new village is under construction it will be called markovic meaning getting water from the spring in the you pick language leaders we were number on it thanks to an early start and persistence new talk believes it will complete the village relocation in 2 years the elders and everything on the religious cultural wanted everybody to Stay Together because what youre what youre really talking about is this locating people the new village had to be close to you pick hunting grounds along with houses the people need roads a power plant clinic and school the entire project costs around 100000000. 00 money difficult to secure from the government because laws written to address sudden natural disasters never envision. In the slow catastrophe of Climate Change theres other communities that are right in line or you know our brothers and sisters are west and theres a lot more communities that are just looking for way right to grandchildren or thing like that you know for this type of disaster albertine a charles is among the 1st people to go and shes excited but the moment is also bitter im going to miss the space this is where i was for this where i grew up her life and the life of her village is now pioneering forward into a new era of the earths changing climate castro planet s. O. S. New talk alaska so 100000000 dollars to shift 350. 00 people imagine them the cost both financially and emotionally of finding refuge for say 350000000. 00 climate refugees even more thats what Scientists Say could happen if we fail to way now limiting warming to a one and a half degree celsius rise a well below 2 is what nations signed up to in paris but those numbers werent chosen because theyre whats best for the planet they were chosen because thats what nations could agree on and the pledges well they were never going to be enough anyway a report by the universal Ecological Fund shows that even if countries delivered on every single pledge from paris the average global temperature would rise by around 3 and a half degrees the i. P. C. C. Says we need to have global Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030 to stick to a 1. 00 degree rise but to do that nations must commit to new much more ambitious pledges and in the years since paris levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere have infect grown up back to you nick. Or will it get more of whats going on down below in this stunning environment in a minute were going to communicate from the seabed to the boat because theres a whole load of Ocean Science taking place here in plowing our reporter over vonnie has joined the team and they sort themselves out down on the reef lets just take a look at this report its all over compiled earlier. Plow seas are teeming with life most of it concentrated here on the countrys barrier reef stretching over 500 kilometers its one of the planets few remaining pristine coral reefs but this beauty comes with the fragility of a one of the most pristine reefs in the world but its just a hair under threat around the world coral reefs are disappearing at an alarming rate its estimated over a 3rd of all reefs will be destroyed or seriously damaged within the next 10 years Climate Change is warming see which has a devastating effect on corals forcing them to reject the colorful algae that normally lives within them and bleaching them white much of the reef here in palau has been spared and thats in part because the geography of the region water trapped by the lushly forested limestone cliffs forms a sort of lagoon and warms in the sun but instead of getting bleached the coral here has adapted to these extreme conditions and remains healthy these are socalled super corals and they only exist here in the western pacific and that makes them fascinating for scientists who hope they can be used to repair damage reefs around the world even the lab and then we. Stress increase the temperature of the water that theyre in and to see which of them are surviving and those will be our. The efforts that scientists are making here show the healthy reef supports millions of species and on the edge of the reef in the fast flowing currents sharks there of what that space is a shot of rain in the waters here off the coast. Of those are endangered. In order to protect them well outwit the worlds 1st factory a. Lot of the way they want to get fish by sharks and rays places that offer you. However its a lucrative business shark fins fetch big money in the markets of asia where they used in shark fin soup weve only been in the water for a few minutes when we come across this a gray reef shark missing its dorsal fin is Illegal Fishing vessels catch sharks hack their fins off and then toss the rest of the fish still alive back into the sea the prospects for this shark a bleak without a fence keep it out right it will soon tire sink to the bottom of the ocean and die as Climate Change decimates coral reefs and fish bear the scars of humans greed ploughs turquoise waters and the secrets they contain are a small beacon of hope in a vanishing underwater world right now lets establish contact with the team if we toss this. Into the water we should make a connection with all over. All right tell us more about what youre seeing down there. Yes i would agree to a scientist who is studying the clones and said ok should be i should absorb more Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. And that the corals and other creatures i did make it harder to deal with the skeletons of shells that they deeper survived by collecting samples to see the corals at reading them in the lab create a strain of coral thats to put it be resilient eat at high temperatures or sit it see. Like get that caps lock them in reach around the world which have more catch all strains of coral that carp survive the oceans shake or i think a lot on of or not often you get to hold a conversation like that now theres all sorts of science going on in all corners of the world Critical Research in these Uncertain Times one of the data points you see there is the level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere Scientists Say the safe level is anything below 350. 00 but we are well past that of the above 400. 00 parts per 1000000 the reason is execs Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases are acting like a blanket around the earth not allowing excess heat to escape to the atmosphere and causing the global temperature to rise. So we wouldnt have any direct evidence of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere if it wasnt for a child scaling back in 958 he began monitoring c o 2 levels of measurement now known as the Keeling Curve he painstakingly recorded c o 2 levels every day for decades and thats a job his son ralph has now taken and. My father came to scripts and i think 956. 00 with the task of measuring Carbon Dioxide different places around the world you 958. 00 he was getting readings of around 310. 00 parts per 1000000 now were up at. Almost protein 415. 00 parts per 1000410. 00 or more. So its really its just really rocketing up the Main Operation in my lab as in my fathers lab involved sending flasks these are glass to the ears out into the field that are filled with an air sample and sent back and then we analyzed it in the lab it established as a matter of fact that humans were impacting the planet at a global scale the core problem is the burning fossil fuel burning more and more decade by decade its not like we understand this problem and are starting to curtail its like youve got a weight problem in your response is to eat more and more you have to go back millions of years before you find levels of highs today and that was a world with a very different climate. I think whats really changed in the last decade in particular is people starting to feel the weirdness of the climate around them in terms of Freak Weather and crop failures and so it is that its lost some of its remoteness its starting to creep into peoples lives i think its going to get kind of rough to be honest and i dont see how we get around us without serious consequences and the sooner we understand what were facing and started dabbling to it and reducing the of the problem the better off will be and sadly its taken a long time to get there what are we back in the capital career or in the neighborhood that we featured earlier where the issue of rising sea levels is almost a daily problem for People Living here as it is for a growing number of communities right around the world where the netherlands which is one of the planets lowest lying countries theyre using age Old Technology to explore the possibility of life on the water is natasha. Amsterdam is a city defined by water tool homes line its famous canals but in this neighborhood people dont just live near water they live on it pull the runs architectural tools of the area he says living on water comes naturally to the dutch because the netherlands is one of the worlds lowest lying countries for almost a 1000 years we build dikes and create land its in our d. N. A. To live with the water and with all technical possibilities nowadays and the Climate Change we find new ways to make neighbors on the water because of Climate Change global sea levels are rising a quarter of the population in the netherlands lives below sea level so these homes are look for the future fico who thinks floating home is an enticing haven of shimmering light he helped design itself to coming up with a plan for a Sustainable Community with friends a decade ago the world needs to change we cant keep doing the same thing creeping doing the last 100 years i think Everybody Knows that we want to. Make a statement and showed it is. Floating houses may seem like a luxury but all could take say the floating structures can be adapted according to budgets need so low cost homes schools hospitals even entire cities could one day be built on water in rotterdams port theres a floating farm powered by solar energy farms like this could be replicated in poorer parts of the world that are susceptible to rising water is when you are on a floating farm you will go up and down with the flooding or as we do here in the port we go up and down with the side. And still go on with Food Production no matter how high the water level is current altos has designed floating apartment blocks ports and cities and hundreds of homes one of the worlds leading experts in floating architecture he says Climate Change creates a sense of urgency and we if we have to work on this kind of technology and ideas in architecture for last 15 years but we really think that this is just momentum now because Climate Change is bigger than ever as ations begin to ever and we think that water can be a solution because its a space of case flexibility and its quite stable building on water doesnt tackle the root causes of Climate Change but it can provide a creative and sustainable solution to one of the greatest challenges of our time natasha buckler im still the netherlands. Floating architect show one way of dealing with rising sea levels would like to hear your stories of innovation and solutions you can get in touch using the hash tag a. J. Planets s. O. S. Well thats just about it from plowing the western pacific this extraordinary country full of life fighting for its future next time on the show well bring you whats coming up at top 25 thats the annual climate gathering of scientists politicians and Civil Society is now in madrid of course off to chile without. The from a nic luck and the rest of the planet s. O. S. Team very imply its divisive. As we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to determine if this closure in the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok well send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on aljazeera. 0. Where ever you. Crowds u. N. Forces in democratic republic of congo for failing to protect them. This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. Minister saad hariri says he doesnt want to lead the next government and the president to appoint a new leader buildings toppled and dozens of aftershocks in albania 18 people are killed in a strong earthquake. The challenger