The reason that we're here is because we hear that this island is sinking. Eight degrees. Along the way, they were completely eliminated from the park. When we asked him if he would eat the food irrigated by the water or even drink it, he said, "Of course not." The night tonight will be probably the windiest night of the two. There's no public seating area inside. Of all of the animals here, the most well known is the island's primate, the lemur. Instead, tragically, 2,000 people live here, and they are literally being washed away. It is sad: we’re taking a lot of beautiful species down with us. I think the warming that we are seeing is at -- definitely at the low end of the projection range. Here's how one man described it. Let's check it out. The consensus among scientists is something is different. He agreed to sit down with us. The weather fuelled the firestorm. The dry Santa Ana winds have let up. Planet in Peril. COOPER: Aside from some serious bruising, Jeff is unharmed. COOPER (voice-over): We're here to see something extraordinary -- Greenland's retreating ice has revealed a new island. He got right up to one of the fire lines today. Both sides of the debate know that. This is Madagascar. And this is just deer meat, venison. (voice-over) "He got it because of the brown and red water," she says. We don't want to scare the wolves off by getting too close. Our planet is heading for disaster. Already small islands slip beneath the sea. (voice-over): The vast ice sheet of Greenland -- 1,500 miles long and more than a mile deep, the world's largest island. The lake has dried up before. TRASANDE: Even a chemical way back to the 1970s, DDT. She tells me she doesn't have time to be sad. I'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest, a 360 special on the fire. They know there's a provision in Thai law that makes it all but impossible for police to enter a closed store. What's the significance of a moulin? They are monitoring that as well. 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. As far as the PCBs, it has something to do with where I grew up, New York City. You can't say for certain what the effects are of these chemicals in somebody's system? COOPER (on camera): Does it surprise you that new islands are cropping up in Greenland? NICK MARX, RUNS RESCUE CENTER: Yes, yes. It gives you the sense of the demand for this type of wildlife here in China. Tigers are hunted for trophies, as well as for their body parts, prized in traditional medicine. Out here it's an igloo. What's going to happen to you? Here's the latest on the California wildfires. JEFF CORWIN, HOST, "THE JEFF CORWIN EXPERIENCE": It is absolute, utter devastation. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it will. The point is there are people out there that are making decisions on our behalf that do and are deciding not to do anything about it. Do you feel like the people here have been forgotten? The Chinese eat everything, that's probably an overstatement, but we do know this much. Does it really make any kind of a difference if you eliminate this camp? STEFFEN: Yes. SCHMIDT: This island exists because of global warming. (voice-over) They name Jeff Running Deer. We want to study this. RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: a lot of soot and ash, Anderson, all over the place. The majority of the scientific community says it's mankind. We hunkered down in the sage brush for about 30 more minutes, then spot movement in the distance. COOPER (voice-over): Behind a closed door in a cramped and sweltering room in a police station, an informant maps out the secret she's seen in Bangkok's infamous JJ Market. We're in this one back store here and these are all turtles. (on camera): This is why you have to truly focus in through the branches, through the chaos of vegetation. So, really, that's all that is remaining of it now. (on camera): There's a bison which died several hundred yards from here, along a little river At night the wolves are going to come and feed on it. You can see the rope goes down. First an update on the California fires. There's actually no law, no ambient air standards, either state or federal, requiring companies to limit the amount of hazardous air pollutants they pump out. Here what we know. And, as Anderson found out, no one is sure exactly why. COOPER (voice-over): And a pack of hunting dogs. And back in the NYC studio, AC360 aired the following promotion on September 27, 2007 COOPER: Remarkable -- gray wolves at Yellowstone National Park, just one of the stops in a project that's literally taken us around the world. We are trying to ensure that penalties are served. It builds roughly two coal firepower plants each week. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: "Planet In Peril" continues in a moment. These men are hunting not just for themselves. TRASANDE: What little we know is just the tip of the iceberg. January 15. Over the next few days, we're going to figure out why and report that back to you. (on camera) The guy has, like, what: one, two, three, four, five rifles. But that kind of growth comes with a cost. (on camera): Here's one of the best examples of what's happening to the water here. Even if they had enough food in terms of quantity, the quality is decreasing. Search. What is the impact on the people that live here? Just days later, these two men confess to the murder. COOPER (voice-over): The world's newest island, discovered because of the world's warming temperature. In fact, our population has grown by more than 400 percent over the last 100 years, and that translates into a breathtaking consumption of just about every natural resource this planet has to offer. (on camera): Tonight, we begin a place that's warming faster than just about any other place on Earth -- Greenland's ice sheet. Much to do, … UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. It's also the world's top beat exporter. This is a planet in peril. The water is more shallow there and the seals are more plentiful. But that's easier said than done when it comes to lizards. Models, you see, also underestimated our changing climate. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They have been, definitely. Pu had done everything he could to make himself seem scary to the people in town. (LAUGHTER) CORWIN: So, what you do is just grab some water and throw it up and just rub it on. Phoenix, you may be smelling smoke by Friday afternoon. That doesn't mean these people can relax, however. (on camera): So this is your field station over here? And the poor diet makes all of them vulnerable to disease. COOPER (on camera): Lean back. Wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin is just ahead of us. COOPER: Before leaving the market, we make another stop -- at one of the stalls where we saw the endangered radiated tortoises from Madagascar. It's the only way they can safely treat the elephant's wound. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bear bile. A tribal elder tells us they fight hard to protect their land and keep their traditions alive. COOPER (on camera): So how far have we come? There's supposed to be a game here Sunday, but the football team packed up, headed to Phoenix, Arizona, this evening to practice where the air isn't smoky. Her daughter, 12-year- old Shushon (ph), doesn't have a father. COOPER: Nothing to do with science and everything to do with money. (on camera) So because of the water, because of the food that was irrigated by the water and because of the drinking of the water, you think your husband got cancer? And though you think, what's the big deal? COOPER (voice-over): And that flush in willow growth is now providing a rare and critical habitat for songbirds, cover for birds and food for beavers. We have come here to Yellowstone Park because in 1995, gray wolves were brought back to this park. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GUPTA: Flying over the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific, the ocean and the sky melt together in a blue/green haze. DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: A lot of people live around here and are dependent on this water. Finally, we arrive at the Chari River. CORWIN: Not all of it illegally logged, but a significant amount. SCHMIDT: No, we're the first to ever walk here. STEFFEN: We actually drove 11 miles. And big cities are in the way of these tornadoes. He joins me now. COOPER: PBDEs are neurotoxins. When she turns to go, they shoot her at point-blank range, leaving her in the mud to die. It's the fire that did some of the power outage damage. It's very hard to move around, very -- the progress is very slow. COOPER: Dr. James Hansen does not believe scientists are simply chasing funding. Scattered around, rangers find garbage, snares, even primitive religious artifacts. Every wild tiger in the world is critically important. We actually just dove down. (voice-over) The director of mine invited us into his office but at first refused to answer our questions. And that was a 25 percent decrease from the year before. They're also illegal to sell. But there are powerful voices who say otherwise. Hansen, with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was one of the first scientists to bring global warming into the public's consciousness in the 1980s. KIRKPATRICK: Exactly. PLANET IN PERIL continues after the break. (on camera) Was he a good father? Haven't had much luck in other places. (voice-over) Their truck is broken down, and they say they need help. What's happening here is a sobering glimpse into what scientist says the future will look like even if modest sea level rise predictions prove true. PLANET IN PERIL continues in a moment. Professor Gordon's son, Flash Gordon, flies home from college to be with his father at the end. "Planet in Peril" continues in just a moment. As the earth gets warmer, moisture in the atmosphere that used to fall as rain, instead evaporates. GUPTA: How many dollars is that, about $200? In San Diego County alone, the damage already tops an estimated $1 billion. Rather than moving quadrepedally, they bounce from vertical support to vertical support. Arson investigators say one of them, the Santiago fire near Los Angeles, had three points of origin. That's a good thing. Viewed as both pests and vicious predators, wolves were the target of a government- sponsored extermination campaign in the beginning of the 20th Century. So during the day, it's hot and the wind doesn't blow as much but during the nighttime it blows more. STEFFEN: Even if you reduce CO2 output at the current level and leave it level, the climate will continue to warm. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a lot of animals right here that range the gamut of critical status. (voice-over) We finally made our way into the fields and asked this man about the water here. It is staggering -- at least $1 billion in San Diego County alone. And it's an illustration on the difficulty of deciphering the debate. At first glance, it's not much different from many Thai markets. Four of the five men involved have been convicted in her murder, but the rancher who's believed to be the mastermind behind the plot remains free on bail. Sanjay Gupta, Jeff Corwin, producers, photographers, editors and I -- shot in high definition around the world. he was trying to freak people out. Their son Rowan was just 18 months told. His explorations have led to discovery. COOPER: I'm nervous here. But part of the Krahos' land has already been illegally clear- cut, and there's little to no law enforcement to stop it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In Chinese medicine, the bear bile has been used for over 12,000 years. Authorities now say only one person has died. What's so amazing is that there is a lizard here. They are elusive and very sensitive to the presence of humans. What are we doing to our natural world? CORWIN: His data indicates an animal that's changing along with the habitat around it. COOPER (voice-over): Even the map of Greenland is changing. I'm Anderson Cooper. COOPER: Struggles for land, fights over resources, people drink from polluted rivers in China and die in broken villages invisible from the gleaming towers of Beijing. GUPTA (voice-over): Walking the legal markets in Guangzhou, it's easy to see why over-exploitation is the number-one threat to China's animals. Finally, we put down. A set of ambitious objectives for the planet, the Earthshot goals seek to … In Asia and Africa, animals and plants are ripped from the forest, species disappearing at a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. They are similar to the ones we have seen in the forest. And it's the first mission that actually going to go try and reach out and touch water on the surface of another planet. The stalls are packed, not only with people -- but with animals for sale. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and federal emergency management officials have been surveying the damage by air. They are all just either red flag warnings or wind advisories. CORWIN: . COOPER (voice-over): Doug Smith (ph) is the wildlife biologist in charge of the wolf reintroduction project. Liangqiao, you see, is known as a cancer village. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it is. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is co-host of the documentary, Planet in Peril. Combine that with the fact that Africa's population is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. We have one more day of that, one more night of that as well. So is it rising seas or the loss of coral that's causing the Carterets to sink? (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper live from San Diego with breaking news on the firestorm raging across Southern California. Another update in 15 minutes. Wildlife Alliance supplements that and has armed them with guns and GPS systems. In the Amazon along poacher's trails, in hidden villages, you can smell the smoke from the burning forest. The rangers confiscate roughly 7,000 of them every year. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're destroying nature's natural regulator. COOPER: I'm going to try to find some. COOPER (on camera): As Dr. Steffen pointed out, climate change is something that's going to be affecting future generations. Mr. Chen, though, is adamant that they don't have it here, and that's just a name. Dabaoshan is a state-run iron ore mine that goes on for miles. Remember, all of this is because of just one animal. It's 5:30 in the morning in the southern city of Guangzhou, and business is booming at this illegal trading spot. "The less the supply, the higher the demand." (on camera): This is Chhouk, a 1-and-a-half-year-old Asian elephant, fighting for his life, after a snare like the ones we saw in Bokor, ripped off part of his front foot. (voice-over): This is place where only 10 percent of the natural habitat remains. As she closed the Bible and turned to go, the gunmen opened fire. (END VIDEO CLIP) COOPER: Governor Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in seven counties. COOPER (voice-over): That we are actually seeing wolves here is something that just 15 years ago seemed impossible. So once (INAUDIBLE) we'll get down and we'll actually physically capture these cubs, anesthetize them and gather data. It actually took five flights leaving from southern China in a helicopter ride, which you just saw. I'm honored by that. You always think of something like that. (END VIDEOTAPE) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) COOPER: I'm Anderson Cooper in Rancho Bernardo, California. (on camera): I have got a lot of pressure riding on him here. TRASANDE: We tested you for 246 synthetic chemicals, and you tested positive for more than 100. COOPER: Wow. (on camera): Growing up on the street, eating fish, those fish probably came from the Hudson River. The world is in a panic as two scientists, Lawrence Gordon and Professor Hensley, contemplate the planet's imminent destruction. GUPTA: We're hearing people are getting cancer from drinking water. GUPTA: Dr. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. GUPTA: That sounds pretty scary. And you're about to see something absolutely incredible. This is an illegal animal trader. Dealers here know they have to be careful because there's an international treaty called CITES that's supposed to protect endangered species, like the two small primates called slow lorises we discover just left of the sign in the front window. Are the police going to come here and shut a place like this down? Ask people about the pollution and ask them why it's happening. This is really good habitat for fish, birds, amphibians, small mammals, moose, mink, otter. CORWIN: Lean back and steer. Life will go on. People keep pointing us to the Dabaoshan mine. So, the practice has gone underground. (on camera): Ah, dagnabit (ph), I had him. So, we're going to give it a try. At night the wolves are going to come and feed on it. So, they quickly pile into their trucks. Rick Sanchez has been on the front lines of the Harris fire all day. It's incredibly rich in terms of biodiversity and there's a real battle going on there right now to protect the species on that island. A documentary in which CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta report on … HANSEN: That's another big misconception. I have 15. The other thing that's cool about it is that this adult lizard has a spine, a three-chambered heart, a set of lungs, but almost microscopic in design. I'm standing in Nigeria, what used to be the middle of Lake Chad. It didn't take us long to find out. He's even got a slingshot. OK. CORWIN (voice-over): . That means they won't be out hunting today, killing untold numbers of wild animals. They continue to rage around Lake Arrowhead. Jeff and I are now heading to Brazil's Amazon to see firsthand the battle for the world's greatest rain forest. Now I will show you how it works. We don't know who this is. (on camera): You've been coming here since 1990? Now it's locked. Very nicely disguised. COOPER: Their chemical exposure levels were high; but then they got the kids' results, and they were shocked. But this has something to do with it. We actually stand in our refrigerator. It is possible. COOPER: Back inside the police station, the mood is tense. The park has an eerie quality. But those in Qualcomm Stadium are still worrying about those homes. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, and I, travel to some 13 countries on four continents to examine climate change, overpopulation, deforestation and species loss -- problems, which, as you'll see tonight are all interconnected.

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