very good. it actually makes me feel very good because i know actually we re helping to protect the environment and keep everything clean, be eco-friendly. i think garrett is doing a great job. garrett is great for what he s been doing. my hopes for the film industry is it continues on this path of greening all their sets. that s a cut. one story we found this year that frankly seems like something from a movie involves stingrays. maybe millions of them threatening to undo years of effort to save the chesapeake bay from pollution and overfishing. the rays are tipping the delicate balance in the waters of the bay wrapping around the east coast. but photojournalist john bena has a fascinating tale about how local folks are fighting and biting back.
to declare that this well will no longer ever leak into the gulf of mexico, alex. that declaration can t come soon enough. what about the other fish kill that has been found. yeah, you know, even the closing off of this well permanently doesn t mean the end of it to people who live around here. they re still seeing oil wash ashore and also dealing with these fish kills here. we saw one earlier in the week and it looked like a avel road and so many dead fish in the marshes. scientists say they don t believe that that one was lea d linked to the oil or disperseants. thousands of dead fish, even stingrays mixed in with it and people here worried they re now seeing them more frequently and bigger fish kills than they have in the past and they re asking for more testing and that is going to happen. they are going to look at this one that they found yesterday just to make sure that the oil and dispersant didn t play into it. they did notice oil mixed in
96% 40 years ago. experts say that 12% gap is kids being held back. well, if you ve ever gone snorkeling or diving you ve probably seen the beautiful coral reeves down under, but some scientists say that pollution and global warming are taking a toll on coral around the world and many of the colorful reeves are dying. to try and protect what we have left some divers in florida started a foundation to help save troubled coral reefs. the green eels, startling stingrays and fish of all sizes you ve got to first have a healthy reef. ready to launch. , but to have a healthy reef you first need the building blocks, coral. so ken need meyer and divers at the coral restoration foundation swim 30 feet down after the keys and stag horn
be quite startling scene sing rays. you have got to have stingrays you have got to have other fish and green moray eels. to have healthy reefs you have to have healthy coral. they attract tourists who bring money to coastal communities. this is called pickles reef. two years ai have got to was b barein and dead. they have rebuilt this reef with pieces of coral transplanted there. it was not being done anywhere else in the world a decade ago. they created coral nurseries. rows and rows of it sometimes even hang on a rope line and the coral grows quite well, better
florida. one net at a time, dragged through the gulf with the oil containment boons, a new noah s ark gets populated. this catch stingrays, small crabs and sand dollars, all part of the marine life gold mine in the gulf before the b.p. oil spill. it s a continuous nightmare. it s been one non-stop, endless effort to try to figure out what to do next. jack settled on operation noah s ark, turning his gulf specimen marine laboratory into a sealife sanctuary. once the oil and dispersion is gone for good, he will release these creatures and their descendants into the gulf. the government says 3500 bird, turtles and mammals have died an oily death. but what remains murky is the death toll underwater. there has been depleekz of oxygen levels in the water and traces of oil and crab larve a. but the long-term impact on gulf