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 LargestMarine 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. 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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 LargestMarine 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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