(COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER: If you're going to find out more information about the topics discussed tonight, or find out what you can do to get involved, check out our impactor world website at cnn.com/impact. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now because of the understanding of global warming, we believe what is melting in the Arctic or the place where there's ice. Some of these animals are actually drowning, trying to swim these new open waters. Instead, she opened the Bible she was carry in her hand and read a passage from the gospel of Matthew: "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied." (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR. ROSARIO MARROQUIN, MOTHER OF VALENTIN: My worst fear as a parent was losing my child somewhere. COOPER (voice-over): The world's newest island, discovered because of the world's warming temperature. CORWIN: Exactly. It is rather steep. His mother, Rosario, was just happy she'd found somewhere free from the violence and drugs that plagued other low-income neighborhoods. Steve got (INAUDIBLE) shot, he landed that anesthetic dart right in the shoulder about a minute ago. Animals like the polar bear and humans will simply adapt. We're going to go home now. Beatriz_Gonzalez88 Plus. So to welcome us, they want to baptize us. Chief Bernard (ph) takes us out by boat to the coral reef. This is the area. And that's what's happening to the lake. COOPER (voice-over): Twenty percent of the jungle has been lost in the past 40 years. PLANET IN PERIL - 2007 CNN takes viewers around the world in a four-hour documentary that examines our changing planet. Of course, we don't want mom and the cubs to separate. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper, Rancho Bernardo, California. INHOFE: Well, if you do, then my time has expired. And that, it seems, is what's happening to the Carterets. COOPER (voice-over): A projection range based on computer models. Her home is disappearing. The Bush administration is proposing adding the polar bear to the endangered species list. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (DOGS BARKING) (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER (voice-over): In a wooden shack in a remote corner of the Amazon forest, armed men pore over maps and make last-minute plans. CORWIN: Very much so. And, by Friday, the winds actually blow back onshore, which means all of that smoke that's out there in the ocean will be pushed back into L.A., back into San Diego, and all the way through east and into the valleys, back through Twentynine Palms, maybe through Yuma. In Asia and Africa, animals and plants are ripped from the forest, species disappearing at a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. They feed us, provide us medicine, and control our climate. VALENTIN MARROQUIN, CANCER PATIENT: Cook (ph). GUPTA (voice-over): Some of the children here are clearly malnourished. But the water crisis may be more than just climate change. April 14, 20235:33 AM ET. COOPER: Climate change isn't just having an impact here in the interior of Greenland. But that also means that the power demand on the grid will go up. In recent years, we had a gap of sometimes as much as 200 miles north of the Alaska coast. "An anthology bringing together the testimony of over eighty theologians, religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers to present a diverse and compelling call to honor humans' moral responsibility to the planet in the face of envi . CORWIN: It's easy. We came here not with the idea to monitor the abrupt change we currently observe. Amstrup aims and then fires the dart. STEFFEN: We actually drove 11 miles. And that, scientists say, is a direct result of climate change. It explains how they are in our hands now, and asks what we will decide. NEW YORK: In Sweden and Norway, the treeline is marching northward and uphill as the snowline recedes. (on camera): Wherever you go in Brazil, in the Amazon, you will find that, fire. Anderson's inside look at "The Survivor Diaries". For example, 20 percent of the world's water is locked up in rain forest habitat, specifically the Amazon Basin. They want to go in and give us local names, names in their language, and also give us tribal markings. If they encroached on a peasant's land, Stang would report them to the government. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you get it? COOPER: That was far more unpleasant than it needed to be. So, what does that really spell for the forecast? While difficult to measure exactly how much, scientists believe part of the rise is due to melting glaciers and ice sheets, like the ones we saw in Greenland. STEFFEN: We have fresh bread every day. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LETICIA DECKERT, EVACUEE: It's stressful, very stressful. And, right here, between that land over there and this land over here, this is the river mouth. COOPER (on camera): Lean back. STEFFEN: But during the cold years, we had some water that froze in the middle tent, which was our sleep tent, which was not very comfortable. Yet due to its dry climate, scientists say it's the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. You can see some of the trees here. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, really. Finally, we put down. Those numbers expected to climb. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, OK. We're flying right over it now. SISTER DOROTHY STANG, NUN/CONSERVATIONIST: The only thing they know is survival farming. Agents get word over the radio there might be an encampment of illegal loggers nearby. And the people are stronger than ever, and we do not intend to leave here. A $70,000 reward has been announced for information leading to the arrest of whoever may have set that blaze. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it is definitely sinking but the life here is too valuable to leave. It is eye opening and thought provoking and a . (on camera): What are these three -- these are tents? Dr. Sanjay Gupta, wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, and I, travel to some 13 countries on four. But many don't want to go, and it's easy to see why. We will have a sea level increase. You have to see it to believe it. Most often, it's: "Well, look, it's cheaper to have plants in this neighborhood than it is anywhere else in this very expensive city." It's of great concern to scientists who are studying it. You can see the water channel coming over it now. While a scientific consensus says man is responsible for global warming, Michaels, like Senator Inhofe, says money is the prime motivator. Investigating our PLANET IN PERIL has taken us to 13 countries on 4 continents. As we sailed into the base of it and we kept finding open water, I became disoriented. R. MARROQUIN: All right. And it's unclear exactly why. That is good planning on the part of local officials. For Jim Hansen, that makes the situation all the more pressing. (on camera): So this is where you sleep? This is our office where we have the electronics and computers. 50 terms. We are the first people to ever visit here. Overpopulation, deforestation, species lost, climate change. And after two long days of driving in the sand, we are closing in on the source of Lake Chad and hopefully to the answer as to why exactly it's disappearing. The majority of the scientific community says it's mankind. CORWIN: Under nutritional stress because it's simply getting harder for bears to eat. A huge fire years ago killed 22, when not as many people were ordered to evacuate. CORWIN: He's got five rifles. That means they won't be out hunting today, killing untold numbers of wild animals. "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" takes viewers on a journey around the world to places where natural resources are caught in the crossfire of conflict. CORWIN: These guys have all the classic tools of the trade when it comes to poaching wildlife. AL GORE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If I could complete my answer. role of forests in an ecosystem. And now we're going to move in. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) COOPER: Six-year-old Valentin Marroquin went from healthy one moment to a leukemia patient battling for his life the next. provide stability, collect water, prevent run-off, remove carbon dioxide. We're going to take you right to the front lines of the Harris fire with Rick Sanchez. This species of fish can grow up to 60 kilograms, and, today, you see, they just a few grams. The consensus among scientists is something is different. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The struggle today is how to get food. STEFFEN: Yes. Lakes are evaporating. But is climate change really responsible for what's washing away their world? He joins us from Spring Valley by the Harris fire -- Rick. Scenes from Meridian where Carter says Daniel has had a lethal dose of radiation and him in the infirmary. COOPER (on camera): Does it surprise you that new islands are cropping up in Greenland? OK. CORWIN: With the bears safely sedated, Amstrup gets to work. PLANET IN PERIL, however, continues after this break. JEFF CORWIN, "ANIMAL PLANET": It's like nothing my eyes have ever experienced. For IBAMA, secrecy is key. COOPER: Rick, thanks very much. Skeptics, believers, liberals, conservatives; it all seems so theoretical. Schools were closed for a decade. This is a lead. STEFFEN: Hey. Sister Dorothy's death became a symbol, not only for the rain forest, but also for the protection of the people who call it home. This reef is dying, which means less protection from storms and fewer fish to eat. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we are suffering. Right now in Greenland, it is eight degrees warmer than it was just about 10 years ago. CORWIN: So, basically, it's providing this layer of viscosity to the ice to slide on. Why is it happening? So far, getting there is proving anything but easy. COOPER (on camera): A different path, because we are destroying much of what remains of the natural world. STEFFEN: Yes, this is a moulin. But just listen. Amazingly, there's no shortage of food or diapers or even toilet paper. Sister Stang didn't try to run away. 1 In "Planet in Peril," CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Animal Planet host and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin take viewers around the globe for a two-part documentary on the threats to the world's environment. Clearly, it's a larger operation than that. Planet in Peril Aired December 20, 2009 - 20:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. Prince William Unveils Ambitious New Environmental Mission: 'The Earth Is at a Tipping Point and We Face a Stark Choice'. Pat Michaels was Virginia's state climatologist for more than a decade and a professor at the University of Virginia. To know that this charismatic, incredible life form could very well become extinct because its habitat is warming up and the ice it needs to survive is disappearing is really most profound. Let's check it out. Arctic temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth. COOPER: Really? After two days exploring with Dennis Schmidt, we head back to the interior and Dr. Konrad Steffen. And I pointed to the area of open water at the edge of the face of the glacier and I said that's the world's newest island. Eighty percent of it covered by ice. But over the past 40 years, Lake Chad in central Africa has shrunk by 90 percent. Global eorts and . And, in fact, I'm a good example of that, because when I first spoke out about this in 1981, I ended up losing my funding. COOPER: That's true. River Oaks is the area where all the millionaires live. It's not based on the fast flow that generates additional icebergs. We should think for the next two, three generations. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're destroying nature's natural regulators. CORWIN: Clearly, their motivation was a bit more insidious. It used to be one of the largest lakes in the world, but it's disappearing. James Foley's. COOPER: If the sea levels, by the models that we have now, are going to rise three feet in the next hundred years, can that be reversed still? But the winds are dying down, and that gives firefighters a chance to possibly gain the upper hand. They are all here, more than 200 of them, to try to put a stop to the animal poachers and loggers who are tearing this forest apart. Going to take you right to the lake pat Michaels was Virginia 's state for. 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