Planet in Peril CNN Thursday

Watch “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines” on Thursday, December 11, at 9 p.m. ET on CNN, hosted by Anderson Cooper, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and “The Oprah Winfrey Show” correspondent and National Geographic host Lisa Ling. CNN’s award-winning series examines the environmental conflicts between growing populations and natural resources.

The team will investigate serious environmental conflicts, including mass hunger in Cameroon and Congo, melting ice on the North Pole and shark-finning operations in Taiwan and Costa Rica.

You can see Anderson Cooper with great white sharks in South Africa, or  Arwa Damon in the rapidly vanishing forests of Sumatra in central Indonesia.  You can also learn about the alarming fact that one in four mammals face extinction.

Watch below from a brief segment as Anderson Cooper reports on the extinction of Polar Bears.