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This week on Focus Earth, Bob Woodruff's eco-report for ABC News and Planet Green, the team travels the U.S. and the world, to bring you the latest on everything from your neighbors' carbon footprints to the threatened future of life along the Ganges River.
Bob will share the facts on Americans and the environment, with results from an exclusive new poll conducted by Stanford University, ABC News, and the Discovery Channel. He'll give you the numbers on what U.S. citizens think about global warming, the country's energy future, and carbon footprints, and what they're doing about it. A roundtable of experts will weigh in on those issues, and talk about shifting attitudes to climate change.
Reporting on how citizens are thinking about eco-issues in the voting booth as well as in their living rooms, John Berman will bring you news from the campaign trail, with the story on "energy week" for the candidates, and how voters are putting oil, climate change, and gas prices at the heart of the debate for the next President.
Looking to Texas, we'll see the impact of Hurricane Edouard, after its unexpected downgrade to a tropical storm. Looking to Alaska, we'll get the latest on how the state is taking the U.S. government to court over listing the polar bear as an endangered species, and the controversy about the impact of the decision on Alaskan oil and gas exploration, and the fishing and tourism trades.
In a special segment on China, leading up to the Olympic games, David Muir will report on air quality in Beijing. Then, we'll examine NASA images of a typhoon off the coast of the country, and talk about how forecasters are expecting that four or five similar storms set to hit the area in August may impact the games' sailing events and other medal competitions.
Nick Schifrin will report from the Ganges River in India, where global warming and a melting glacier in the Himalayas threaten to upset the water's flow, endangering this lifeline to 400 million people, who have built their cities and towns, and religious and cultural life, around the mighty stream.
Ned Potter will bring you the results of a new survey that shows encouraging numbers for an endangered species, as researchers discover a pocket of rare gorillas thriving deep in the African Congo's secluded "Green Abyss" jungle.
