Resources and Energy

4: Canada | Arctic with Bruce Parry

Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. He then heads south to the...

Carbon dioxide levels | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart outlines the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.

Caspian oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the impact of the Caspian oil.

Extracting oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the new technologies with which oil is being discovered and extracted.

North Sea oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the discovery of North Sea oil.

How is oil formed? | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the natural process in which over millions of years oil is formed.

Greenhouse effect | Making Scotland's Landscape

An experiment that demonstrates the greenhouse effect.

Arguments against wind turbines | Power to the People

Arguments for and against building more wind turbines in Scotland.

Problems with renewable energy | Power to the People

Local residents fight against the introduction of power lines and renewable energy sources into the landscape.

Power lines | Power to the People

New power lines are needed to transport wind power to the big cities.

Episode 2 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

The second leg of Simon's journey takes him from the stunning fjords of Norway to Iceland - the original land of fire and ice.

2: Heat Pumps | What They Really Mean for You

Investigating the controversial plans to change how we heat our homes and produce electricity. Is it possible and what will it ...

1: Electric Cars | What They Really Mean for You

Investigating the controversial plans to change the cars we drive. Is it possible and what will it take?

Episode 3 | Future Earth

Carl Nasman explores the challenges we face in the transition to renewable energies and explores some of the solutions. He finds out how the United ...

Episode 2 | Building Britain's Biggest Nuclear Power Station

The project sees its biggest lift to date using the world's largest land-based crane. Meanwhile, we learn about ...

Episode 1 | Building Britain's Biggest Nuclear Power Station

Following the challenges involved in building Hinkley Point C, one of Europe's largest projects and the first ne...

4: Wind | Powering Britain

Keeley Donovan heads 75 miles off the Yorkshire coast to see the building of Hornsea One, which is currently the world's biggest offshore windfarm.

3: Nuclear | Powering Britain

Keeley Donovan meets the people working at Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 power stations in Lancashire, Britain's biggest operational nuclear site.

2: Gas | Powering Britain

Keeley Donovan meets the people working in the gas industry in and around the Cumbrian Coast.

S1E4: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You

Join Maddie as she finds out how many plants give us food we can eat and how we can help to look after them and our planet.

Episode 3: The Batttle Continues | Hugh's War on Waste

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tries to change Britain's wasteful ways. He takes on Amazon, for all their packaging, and ...

Episode 2 | Hugh's War on Waste

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his mission to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He joins an illicit midnight raid to see what h...

Hugh's War on Waste

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He challenges supermarkets to drastically reduce the amount of food they th...

Cattle | Show Me What You're Made Of

Stacey Dooley takes the kids to the heart of the Brazilian beef industry, where they see for themselves how meat gets to our plates.

Prawns | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids move to the north east coast of Brazil to work in a prawn farm and processing factory.

Chocolate | Show Me What You're Made Of

It's on to the final workplace and every kid's dream come true - a chocolate factory.

Tuna | Show Me What You're Made Of

The kids move to Indonesia to a factory processing tinned tuna for the international market.

Sausage Factory | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

The five kids continue their working tour of the UK travelling to Hull, to an enormous gourmet sausage factory where millio...

Bee and Honey Farm | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

In part three of their Britain trip, our five kids head with Stacey Dooley to Aberystwyth in Wales to one of the UK's mo...

Eggs | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. They are on their final stop, at one of the big...

Sandwiches | Show Me What You're Made Of: UK

Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. The kids travel to a massive sandwich fac...

Seafood | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores are largely dispatc...

Fruit and Veg | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. Ed is at London G...

Sustainable meat production | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin discusses the importance of understanding the process behind the meat we eat (warning: this clip conta...

Animal feed production | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin explores the impact that animal feed production is having on insect biodiversity.

Amazon deforestation | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin witnesses the devastation of the Amazon rainforest from the sky.

Pig farming and water pollution | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin investigates the polluting impact of pig manure from factory farms.

Cattle feedyard | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin visits a cattle feedyard, a mass factory farm, that contains about 50,000 cows.

Episode 6 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure

Since moving to the farm, the Fletchers' social life has suffered. To get to know the neighbours better, Kelvin and Liz decide to ...

S1E3: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You

Join Maddie to discover the plants that we use in our everyday lives and how we can help to look after them and our planet.

Composting | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine discusses the renewable possibilities of composting food waste.

Arguments against wind turbines | Power to the People

Arguments for and against building more wind turbines in Scotland.

Problems with renewable energy | Power to the People

Local residents fight against the introduction of power lines and renewable energy sources into the landscape.

Power lines | Power to the People

New power lines are needed to transport wind power to the big cities.

Early stages of toilet roll production | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace visits a sustainable forest in Sweden and then a pulp mill where the offcuts from the trees are tur...

3: Shifting Nature | China

China is trying to feed 20% of the world's population on 7% of the world's arable land. And a third of the world uses water from China's rivers. R...

Episode 4 | Future Earth

Carl Nasman finds out how the food and drinks we consume and produce impact the planet. He explores some of the solutions on hand to look after the ...

Episode 3 | Shop Well for the Planet?

A young family are challenged to cut their carbon footprint and save money. Can they be convinced that being green doesn't have to cost...

Episode 2 | Shop Well for the Planet?

The gang help a family at different stages of their eco journey. Reusable kitchen roll is put to the test, and we get some top tips on ...

Episode 1 | Shop Well for the Planet?

The gang help a family go green and save some cash. Eco toilet roll and natural deodorant are put through their paces, and how will the...

S2E1: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Documentary in which Reggie Yates heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the w...

4: Fire | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart explores man's relationship with fire. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt and...

6: Fragile Paradise | South Pacific

A look at what is being done to preserve the South Pacific and its wildlife in the face of fishing fleets and other insidious threats to ...

3: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs | Tales from the National Parks

In Tyndrum gold fever has gripped the village's residents, but will the Loch Lomond Park Authority give perm...

Episode 3 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

In this final episode, Anita looks at single-use toys whilst Hugh reveals the plastics industry's plans to dramatically increa...

The Fight Goes on | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Hugh and Anita continue their fight against single-use plastics, looking at tea bags and prepacked sandwiches. Then, a...

Episode 2 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Hugh and Anita's attempts to solve our plastic problems continue. Anita tackles bathroom plastics whilst Hugh learns that micr...

3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth

Dallas Campbell examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water.

The Secret Life of Your Clothes | This World

Documentary in which Ade Adepitan explores the afterlife of some of the clothes we donate to charity shops. He follows the trail...