Steve Backshall reveals huge kangaroos, the world's most venomous snake and a burrowing toad living among the t...
A look at how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges - and ingenious solutions - for millions of people in ...
Bruce Parry visits the Mucubal, a community surviving in Angola's harsh Namib Desert, and experiences an extraordinary way of life pr...
The team manage to make a 3D model of Erte Ale, from scans taken inside the volcano's crater.
From tribes hunting with eagles to the baking deserts of central Asia, the extreme landscapes in northern China mean life is always on ...
Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage an...
Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari, be...
Steve Backshall visits the Namib in Africa, where animals use clever tactics to combat the heat. He reveals the unique secret th...
The team climb up and into the crater of Erta Ale volcano.
Leo and Clare use the power of the Sun's heat in Death Valley to cook different foods using different techniques.
The team attempt to digitally map a fissure created by an earthquake.
The team explore the volcano system in Dallol, in the Danakil Depression.
Leo and Clare head to Death Valley in California which is 80 metres below sea level and the hottest place on earth.
James Cracknel and Ben Fogle trek deep into the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert in the footsteps of explorer Wilfred ...
James Cracknell and Ben Fogle travel across the world's largest sand desert. As they try to pick up the pace disaster str...
An insight into the geology and people of the Danakil desert in Ethiopia. Kate Humble investigates how tough life is for an Afar woman. Dr...
The team fly over Erte Ale and the land around the lava lake in a helicopter.
Leo attempts to run in the extreme heat with a doctor on standby to monitor his levels of dehydration.
A flash flood is a rare chance for wildlife to build up food and water reserves.
Leo and Clare test wearing different colours in the heat to see how they affect their temperatures.
The hot rocks of the mountains trap the heat in the valley and crumble as a result, making it treacherous for climbing.
A team of experts venture into the Danakil desert in Ethiopia. Kate Humble looks at how tough life is for an Afar woman, and Steve Leonard learns abou...
A single shower can transform Death Valley.
Life exists in a strip of the Atacama Desert due to fog that blows in from the sea.
Gordon Buchanan takes an epic camel ride across the Gobi Desert to discover how these most iconic, yet least understood, animals...
Gordon Buchanan joins a group of Bushmen in Botswana's Kalahari Desert to learn how to survive on foot among ...
In the first of a new series, the Fierce Earth team travel to Morocco, North Africa and to the Sahara Desert - the biggest hot desert in the wor...
In this episode the team travel 6000 miles to the country of Chile and the Atacama Desert - officially the driest place in the world. Leo sky-div...
Rom visits the Sahara Desert. Guided by Bobo, a local of Berber descent, Rom discovers a place t...
Ray Mears visits the Aboriginal people of the central Australian desert. He goes to Amata, where 500 Ana...
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti visit an extraordinary hotel built where people usually struggle to ...
How the desert is shaped by sandstorms.
There is a tiny school of 6 students who live in Death Valley who have to get up at 5.30am to avoid the main heat.
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