Jessica gene. Have a great night and a great week. Well see you back here next weekend welcome. To the whole story. I, managers and cooper, australias Great Barrier reef is the Worlds Largest Marine Habitat and one of the natural wonders the world but its now in its Seventh Mass Bleaching events in 1998, which means the warming waters around australia are killing the coral, turning this vibrant ecosystem into an underwater graveyard this is just one of several Climate Crisis thats plagued australian recent years. There are been devastating wildfires and massive floods that are made parts of the country uninhabitable. And has decimated the population of native species like koalas cnns ive been watson has been reporting on the Climate Disaster in australia for years, and he recently traveled back to see the evolving threats its firsthand and how people are both contributing to the crisis. And trying to find ways to fix it a Once In A Lifetime experience a chance to walk alone on a Desert Island in the middle, the Great Barrier reef all around me, Turquoise Blue Water as far as the eye in see im on the edge of one of the most beautiful Marine Habitats on the planet. A Natural Wonder Of The World and underwater jungle teeming with Colors Movement Life but on this journey off the coast of australia, i learned about the death and destruction being caused by human activity, both on land and under the water the reefs now its not fine unhealthy, its definitely feeling a lot of stress. The temperature of this water is rising. The result coral is bleaching and dying what is happening now in our oceans is like wildfires underwater. Were going to have so much warming that were going to get to a Tipping Point and we wont be able to come back growing up. I could never imagine one day visiting australia. It was an exotic place on the other side of the planet, a land of koalas and kangaroos boasting natural treasures. Unlike any other place in the world decades later, im here enjoying this vibrant place. But also facing a frightening reality. Its ratcheting up and more and more painful i being affected in normal lives, my jia, destructive events files storms, floods an unprecedented level im scale. Humanity is being threatened at a rate, which im not sure we really understand. Australia is a country, a continent on the front lines of Climate Change ndds threatening communities. And its most iconic species to get to australias Kangaroo Island drive straight south from adelaide until you hit the ocean and then board a ferry. It brings me to this remote place thats rugged, sparsely populated, and wild and it does feel a little bit like the end of the world. And thats partially true because from here for the next several thousand miles, its open ocean until you hit antarctica surprisingly, for an island named after kangaroos, my team and i initially had a hard time finding the animals. Thats shape after a de with no luck, we learned kangaroos prefer to come out at sunset when its cooler but thats also a dangerous time for these animals. Got his mom was probably hit by a car. Guy, goes mama satan killed barkai yeah the small team at this Wildlife Center helps raise some of these orphaned animals by hand, either already, including pearl, who seems pretty fun if humans is this a little bit like holding a child, but pretty fuzzy cheer and the other part about this is the for really saw there are few things sweeter than cuddling a koala my teammates couldnt wait for their turn but then we learn the real reason parolees here. She had some burns through her. Is she still has lingering scar tissue there. We cant see obviously the pads of your hands and fate, but the leather was pretty badly burned on there as well four years ago as a tiny joey pearl survived apocalyptic forest fires, which raged across australia australians now call it the black summer i cannot over the severity on the style and intensity and the duration of the 2024 hours theres nothing else like it in any recorded History In Australia australia is extreme climate makes it more vulnerable to bush fires and floods, and Climate Change is exacerbating these Natural Disasters. Barry trail, a volunteer firefighter, and environmental mentalist, is seeing this for Firsthand Gonna get northern more often im gonna get more floods more often if its a wet year, its going to flood more if the dry youre going to get how to five. Thats thats just the physics of it. The fires destroyed thousands of homes and wiped out billions of animals we had local people showing up here with 30, 40 animals in their car that id picked up on the way here or that theyve gone back out to check their farm and id found it kangaroo with its legs melted off essentially its doing the staff here have to euthanized jagan hundred koalas. Yeah. Yeah yeah, that was those leaves a lasting scar for sure those scars still raw for many survivors and for the families of the 33 people who died that summer im ivan. How are you doing . Justin lang meets me at the stretch of highway with a fire killed his father, dick, and his brother clayton the fire. Caught them as they were driving home after helping protect a friends farm from the blades and his glass from their vehicle . Yeah. Sorry. Thats the best window. We find pieces of their truck still hear four years later, who thinks you could get burned to death and driving on a road . Yeah. Exactly. I pulled it off the rides either out of the way but yeah, the car combusted the whole cow was on fire with fire with jumped from trees and the vegetation into the middle of a highway, ember tech its hard to imagine a bushfire engulfing a moving vehicle on a highway until you see footage like this nigel done again through these the smoke. So thick, it turns de into night were asking through the front, but we still got zero visibility the fires even created their own weather system, fired tornadoes, ripping across open farmland. A frightening example of the sheer power of the blaze for the island, small population. It meant all hands on deck i was lot on between jumping on a truck and doing Fall Gram Work and and being here and doing while luck works. So they were dies during that far where there was nothing anyone could do. The weather was too severe and the far was was too hot this shows the area that was burned in 2019 and 2020 that far been 49 of the islands total land area, 49 , and Kangaroo Island is the biggest islands. It is shed, Third Largest island in australia burned . Yeah the inferno destroyed almost all of Kangaroo Islands, Flinders Chase national park. And yet today, i find evidence of some remarkable rebirth four years ago, this was a burnedout moonscape that all of the greenery was destroyed. And you can still see the remnants of bushes and trees that are still charred from the 2020 fires. Its hard to imagine how any of the wildlife could have survived that inferno but look four years later at the regrowth greenery. As far as the eye can see but the same cannot be said of the islands wildlife. And that includes kangaroos and koalas we estimated that there were probably 50,000 animals before the fire on kangaroo Kangaroo Island, which has a population of about 5,000 people. Thats right. So a lot more quality and people after the fires, it was probably more like five to 10,000. So it had a major impact on as we head into the forest, the scientists are tracking whats left of the islands, Koala Population using Satellite Radio Collars to pinpoint their location oh, yeah, there it is. Our first discovery was unfortunately pretty bleak pull little guy but a few miles down the road, we have more luck. So theres one here one there. Wow. And one here. And then theres another one in the tree just over here hi, yeah. Hi there. Yeah. Lets they weigh and check a female named sunny before setting her free. Were very grateful to sunny and shes free to go id like to introduce you to sunny. This is a female koala she has been captured three times by the team here. And just had her Satellite Track are removed. Take a look over here part of the tree. She standing on still bears scorch marks from the previous fires here, which are believed to have killed off more than half of the population of the Wild Koala Wallace on Kangaroo Island this animal is a symbol of this country. Its an iconic species. Is it in trouble . Its very much in trouble. Highly endangered. It may. Well, were seeing it going locally extinct in different populations on the east coast populations decimated by disease and habitat loss from logging and wildfires that are Ravaging Australia all of those catastrophic Climate Change impacts are directly affecting Koala Populations in australia. Do you think this fire was a product of client Climate Change . I think ultimately it was and. Australian government report concluded the same harder to measure the impact on people like justin leg still mourning after the black summer fires killed his father and brother in journey expected from you, brother, he was only 44, but you man is trauma is an oxime i certainly expect him to be mean for female years, so yeah wait his sale of the year is finally here right now, you can save up to 80 off that way there everything play the long way day end soon shop wayfairs biggest sale now, basics every. Style every home shoes, advil, liquid gels for faster stronger, and longer lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels because advil targets pain at the source of well mention. So for faster pain relief, advil, the pain away to test the toughness of the key is sorrento expo, and the key is sorrento turbohybrid. 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We always put your interests first because we do better when you do better if Fisher Investments were clearly different im standing on a tiny part of the Great Barrier reef is the Worlds Largest Marine Habitat and to see, its true beauty you have to go underneath the waves this isnt my first visit to the Great Barrier reef six years ago, i came here to film a cnn report about this Natural Wonder Of The World. Armed with only a mask and a snorkel that was pretty spectacular. This time, im Scuba Certified Guide Is Professor jody romer, a reef scientist at James Cook University how many species did we see of marine life just now . Well im a phish person. Theres over 1,500 species of fish here on the Great Barrier reef. How many do you think we saw . You can see them all today, but how pay 100 species, hundred an underwater rainforest its the most diversity sudden on the planet above or underwater. I would argue and its been my inspiration for my entire career were diving in february peak of the australian summer this is like bathwater, i clear right . Yeah. Where where . Hello, sort of lowered mid 90s fahrenheit jodie, repeatedly shows me coral thats Turned Bone White the reefs not fine a lot of girls that were at various stages of bleaching at something already been overrun with algae plos its a pretty depressing site coral basically being cooked and killed by unusually warm water what we see beneath the surface confirmed several weeks later by the Australian Government as scientists told us that were facing a Mass Bleaching Event. This is the Seventh Mass Bleaching event since 1998 experts once argued this habitat was too big to fail and the Great Barrier reef is the largest continuous us reef system on the planet 2,300 kilometers long and it is literally mind boggling when you think that many, hundreds of thousands of spaces are there on this, this ecosystem this is huge. I mean, the size of itll if you want a repair this ecosystem once youve damaged it, its going to take 1,000 years australia is experiencing a global record marine heatwave this extreme heat is causing what some scientists are falling the worst coral bleaching the state has ever seen weve come here to determine how the coral reefs off florida peninsula are coping with unprecedented ocean keith in 2023, this Weather Pattern caused a massive die off. Of course oral off the coast of florida what happened in florida or the Eastern Caribbean in the last couple of months sort of shocking. And were seeing similar thing happening at the moment on the Great Barrier reef ove hoeghguldberg basically predicted this a quarter century ago in this 1999 article, he wrote thermally triggered coral bleaching events will increase in frequency and severity in the next few decades corals are not keeping up with the rate of warming and they may be the single largest casualty of business as usual, Greenhouse Policies the article sparked a nasty backlash did you anticipate Death Threats and response to an Academic Research paper . No, not at all. I sort of. Okay. What what whats going on here . You put it in front of. You. How ridiculous have your predictions from 1999 followed that model . We are pretty close to what we predicted would happen has happened as Carbon Emissions drive Climate Change the Warming Temperatures of the worlds oceans keep breaking records not more than about five to 10 at this rate, over predicts only a fraction of the worlds coral well still be alive 25 years from now youre talking about a mass die off yeah. As this moved past coral reefs, bleaching so this is whats fascinating i think, and quite terrifying is that the number of disasters that are happening is increasing on a decade by decade spaces, be that a huge forest fires in many parts of the world or massive floods some of australias most recent floods the port city of cans, a main gateway to the Great Barrier reef on december 18, 2023, the worst reigns in decades, flood parts of the city. 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Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 and the most expensive Natural Disaster in australias history, if we werent looking at it with everyone we actually hot on the power lines thats how high the water is. Thats what were dealing with. And luring kali. So excuse me, if i keep watching my head, which is done just didnt see possible that it was going to get to this stage February 2022 liz, more the worst flood in its history turns this small city into a lake in a region already prone to flooding. The scale of this disaster catches authorities by prize, at least four people die thousands need to be rescued. Among them, kates stroud. This road, was this your escape route . Yes. So once we were rescued from our Kitchen Window by the gentleman on the jet ski, we were on top of the water, which we then had to duck beneath faced power lines at its peak. The waters hit a level of 14 meters more than 47 feet. From here. That looks very high, but im gonna give you some additional context. This is part of the levy that is supposed to protect the town of liz more from the wilson river. Look over the wall and there you see the Normal Heights of the wilson river so thats the level that the flood came into this building in that flood kate is an artist and longtime resident of liz more this is your house . Yeah. It was my house. Was your house . I dont live here anymore. Why dont you want to move back in because he cant move back into a place where, you know, that that can happen again in the early hours of february 28, floodwaters fill their backyard the rain doesnt stop the water, just keeps coming kate takes shelter in the attic. Wed saved everything we possibly could so its no point in being in toxic water that was freezing cold and we hadnt slept for 24, 48 hours. A stranger on a Passing Jet Ski rescues kate, some other surreal things that made it really feel like it was Out Of This World was that they were cattle well talk some of the shop and the care on the roof in the aftermath, a grueling cleanup, more than 70,000 tons of debris collected from the main Shopping District alone. What was the state of your home when you saw it again . Completely covered in a thick sludge of rigueur, modern stilts the filth, so bad, returning residents dont know where to begin. Two years later, liz, more streets appeared tidy and clean but look closer and you see homes and businesses boarded up, casualties of the Flood Steve Krieg could only been less moores mayor for a matter of weeks when the 2020 d2 flood hit it ruined his home and business. How is the community doing now . Two years on all you know, its its still very fresh in everyones mind its fractured their community somewhat. A lot of Air Residents that live on the floodplain i have moved due to necessity as far as finances or emotional impact more than 1,500 lives, more residents, many of whom could not afford insurance, still live in temporary Government Housing did you have to be rescued . Are yes, i did. A nearly drowned 75yearold peter roy spent hours trapped on the roof of his house. It was fixed up. Would you want to go back to it . No why is that oh, no wouldnt want to live in a flood zone. Hello. Again . It was that terrifying. Yeah, absolutely authorities failed to predict the severity of the February 2022 flood in liz more its really about the climate becoming unstable some urban planners want australia to stop building on vulnerable flood plains do societies have to consider giving up on some locations . I do think that that is one of a range of things that has to be in in the toolbox do you think a flood like this could happen again yes id be naive to seidel never happen again despite the threat, the mayor of liz moore is doubling down. He opened a new business not far from the river this is my high supplies that i know and i love it. I dont want to leave anywhere else and if im not prepared to invest in the city, how can i ask any everyone else to the one flat again, we just start knowing when and we dont know how deep shade isnt taking any chances. Shes found a new home on higher for ground outside of the city. 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Today the assignment with hadi cornish. Listen wherever you get your podcasts for, the next phase of my journey, im headed back out to the grid Great Barrier reef is were gonna put you up here, ivan to a place so remote only this Puddle Jumper can get me there what because you get that uh 13 seat Cessna Caravan lying and our brisbane our out over the Pacific Ocean respond a tiny patch of green ringed by a halo of coral reefs over pick, get the beautiful Lady Elliot Arm with the first honore of a standard deep if the Great Barrier reef this is literally the start of this massive Marine Habitat right here. The Worlds Largest barrier rate starts, right here landing here is tricky made the deal with the short route might with crops weight, and its quite poppy the runways only 650 meters long he got it. Got it. Yeah. Wow. Welcome. Thank you. That was incredible. My pilot is peter gash hes not just a pilot he basically owns the Island Leasing it from the Australian Government and running in ecoresort here with his family we made it out lots would my wife and i married. I went and learned to fly airplanes so i could bring people here peter wastes no time taking me out to see the islands underwater. Menagerie you look as comfortable well, underwater as you are in the sky. Hey, ivan, i came here 40 years ago when underwater and absolutely fell in love with the place. And how could you not . Youve seen what its like down there . Ive never schwann next to a sea turtle before. Its incredible. They just kinda glide along and they dont really seem to care that a human is kinda gasping flipping around next to them because humans have not bothered the animals for a long time since its been made a protected zone because humans dont interfere with just look, but dont touch. We dont spear, we dont fish. The wildlife is coming lately comfortable with us these waters regularly visited by Man Great And Resident Dolphin named bubbles meanwhile, above the surface, the island teams with seabirds at its peak. Its in excess of 200 good sales in his tiny island. And this tiny little long and its crazy to think that peter gives me a tour what are these tags, for example, that they have water storage. Okay. But i said we do sell night the water one store, then we keep about 20 10 and 12 days of water. How much of the energy . In used apply the resort comes from solar power. Honore, hundred percent. Im going to say we use all of the solar power Lady Elliot Island didnt always look like this in the 19th century settlers mind the island for bird guano leaving the place mostly barren, hard coral you can almost count the trees that were here in 19 absolutely. There was almost nothing this is a man my cross, everything you see here, we planted i couldnt walk here at 15 or 20. Its got so rough here now, weve got natural soil, magnificence is this from your Compost Knowledge from the trace. And the bird thats bird poop dead birds and trees and march. This is naturally from, this is the Island Regrowing again all and grows about three millimeters a year peters trying to run a profitable Tourist Resort and sustain this remarkable Little Island human import pose the problem niger with a bit of help from humans, a bit a human foot is now recovering. Thats rewarding and what it tells me is if we can recover this small place this little circle, we can recover this big vice his whole finally, we live on every single one of us can make a difference its not hopeless peters message of hope is inspiring, but its tempered by something we see underwater i made the reef sharks and sea turtles. Theres Coral Bleached white enough to worry this islands greatest enthusiast what we do see is more and more bleaching normal stress on the corals hot water, the water warming, the environment, changing and bringing up the water so many thats a big risk. The damaged coral here, part of the Mass Bleaching Event caused by the marine heatwave along the Great Barrier reef. A phenomenon that could threaten the entire ecosystem on this journey, ive seen how nature can rebound this island is an example of a place that was a barren rock 30, 40 years ago has regrown a forest. But theres another reality thats been hammered home. So even the Success Story here on this tiny island is vulnerable to the much larger pattern of Climate Change that were seeing being around the Globe A Florida Man is hospitalized, infected with anthrax. Next this became the bureaus number one crying to solve how it really happened with jesse l. Martin. 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Com if you or a loved one have Mesothelial Mac will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 every day, train rumble past, carrying Coal To Newcastle this is the last stop on my journey across australia. And Industrial City with a very busy port you have a cold ship kind of steaming in behind. You hear rather perfectly time. Thats right. Wait, sorry, we are the Worlds Largest to exporting coal port el, biggest trading partners, japan and china, taiwan, and south korea we do about 165 million ton of color. You between 14 and 18 ships a day full of Coal Craig Comedy is the ceo of the port of new castle and its not illegal to sell coal. He says, new castle cant afford to stop selling coal. Even though he knows it hurts the environment i would literally devastate this business, devastate this town, and people would lose their jobs. Well, thats the australian economy writ large australia is the second largest Coal Exporter in the world as well as one of the Largest Global suppliers of natural for all gas on this trip across australia, ive been talking to victims of fires and floods that were intensified by Climate Change but this coal and Gas Producing country also contributes to the Fossil Fuel Emissions driving the problem. We also need to do its something about Climate Change the current Australian Government says, its committed to reducing Greenhouse Gases weve legislated a Pathway To Net Zero by 2050 its why were working hard to reduce Carbon Emissions in australia. Do our part in the global effort to reduce Carbon Emissions and also to and make sure that we transitioning australia two more and horrible energy to get to our target of 82 Renewable Energy by 2030. But just last year, the same government approved opening four new coal mines what i want people to know about australia is that we are one of the Worlds Largest Fossil Fuel Exporting Nations and thats been a position that weve helped quite some time. Its not one that anyone should want Zack Scofield is an environmentalist and resident of new castle hes activist group, rising tide has staged protests briefly stopping one of these trains in the waterborne Sit In Scofield was briefly arrested while Blockading Coal Ships in the port do you want this shutdown . Not immediately, not overnight. Thats not going to help anyone in newcastle, law in australia. But what we do need is no new Fossil Fuel Projects to be approved because thats just going to make the problem worse. As you can say, to die, weve got so much sun, got so much are wind. Weve got a perfect opportunity to become a renewable superpower im surprised to hear both the environmentalist and the coal port Executive Calling for a gradual green energy transition. We have been pursuing a strategy of diversification. So what algol is while we are strong in coal, will build all these new businesses and clean it and jane containers and whatnot. Youre running the Worlds Largest Coal Exporting Port from what im hearing from you, you would like it to no longer be that now youre gonna get me in trouble with the coal miners i want new businesses as big as call for the di whenever that de is, that cold declines cation point would appear to be Giant Toothpicks Bly stacked up on the grounds of the port of new castle look whats in storage here at the worlds biggest Coal Port Giant Blades for wind turbines. And there is symbol of the hope that one day therell be a transition from fossil fuels to Renewable Energy around 10 of australias energy comes from renewable sources like wind farms. This is not somewhere you climb up to if youre afraid of heights, im 92 meters up more than 300 feet on top of this wind turbine. And the wind is howling through here. The entire structure is actually waving in the wind. And this wind farm alone can power some 75,000 homes the wind is just ripping through here. Is this a good day for your business . This is a great day. Thats for sure. This is a really great i think what weve seen today as a glimpse of what the future is going to be there appears to be consensus on the need for change. The question is, when in the syl, i think coal mines, which is unconscionable, milis is a dangerous substance that is having a huge impact on Humanity Australia is absolutely capable of shifting away from fossil fuels and emergency speed and scale, because we have an abundance of Renewable Energy their trajectory that were on now is really quite scary unprecedented is almost an everyday event because the climate is changing. So were fighting a losing wall with a fight for our survival and now kids in the end doesnt this all come down to our children this is a Citizen Science program. Why did i mothering would mean hello and welcome to now weve all read very schoolchildren welcomed by a cultural officer from gun, gun g, one of the aboriginal groups that are considered traditional owners of this stretch of the reef theres about seven, eight groups that called a burberry poem they all have stories on how the retained to be as it is today the kids are here to take photos of the Great Barrier reef and submit them to a growing database thats trying to better monitor this sprawling Marine Habitat these kids are clearly very comfortable way out in open ocean here over the reef and just seeing them diving and swimming and enjoying the scene. Its really remarkable you guys arent nervous out here in the open ocean why is that what was the coolest animal you saw today watch a shop or the turtles so you think you guys will be able to snorkel and dive in these reefs when youre adults but this right this shy would change. Are they endanger yeah. Definitely. Rachel on the world is in danger this sobering reality makes my own visit to the Great Barrier reef bittersweet i just completed my first di five on the Great Barrier reef. It was a spectacular experience the neon colors amazing and im so lucky. I really just hope my daughter gets to see this and experience this one day, the way i just do habitats and communities in parallel. But if theres anything this Journey Across Australia Has showed me its that there is so much here worth fighting for the Great Barrier reef isnt the only Reef Suffering from Climate Change . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recently now its wearing a mask, Global Bleaching event, which means more than half the worlds coral reefs across 54 countries and territories are being affected by the woman waters. Thanks for watching the whole story. Ill see you next sunday