Volcanic eruptions

01: Inferno | Earth

4: Volcanoes | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart takes a grand tour of the world's most extraordinary volcanoes, rightly considered among the most de...

Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time

Margaret Mountford examines new evidence to reveal the sequence of events that destroyed the city of Pompeii and attempts t...

Volcanic Eruptions | From Above

Iceland has seen six months of dramatic volcanic eruptions. Watch them, from above.

2: Volcano | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski looks at volcanoes. With shocking eyewitness footage of eruptions, and new thermal imagery and ultra high-speed photography, we...

1: Volcano | A Perfect Planet

A look at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet's molten core builds land, and mi...

Episode 1 | Kate Humble: Into the Volcano

Kate Humble joins a team of geologists at Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago, where they travel right to the heart of one of the worl...

Episode 2 | Kate Humble: Into the Volcano

Kate Humble goes on an awe-inspiring adventure to Ambrym in Vanuatu, where she abseils into a volcano containing one of only five l...

Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii, the world's most active volcano. They broadcast from the edge of the summit crater.

Episode 2 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. They broadcast from the site of the 1969 Mauna Ulu eruption.

Episode 3 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. They explore how our active planet triggers eruptions, earthquakes and t...

Episode 4 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. Broadcasting from the summit crater, they look to the future of volcanic...

Iceland Erupts: A Volcano Live Special | Volcano Live

Kate Humble heads to Iceland and meets the scientists monitoring the country's most dangerous volcanoes. She also inves...

Pompeii: The Last Day

Dramatised reconstruction using special effects to re-enact one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in history.

Encounters: Volcano

Volcanologist Mark Davies attempts to monitor the seismic activity of Soufrière on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The volcano is regarded as the wor...

Supervolcano

Drama-documentary charting the possible consequences of one of nature's most cataclysmic events, a supervolcanic eruption under Yellowstone Park.

Part 2 | Supervolcano: The Truth about Yellowstone

Documentary exploring some of the issues raised in the accompanying 'Supervolcano' drama. What could bring about a superer...

Part 1 | Supervolcano: The Truth about Yellowstone

Documentary exploring some of the issues raised in the accompanying 'Supervolcano' drama. Yellowstone National Park contai...

S2E8: Boiling Earth | Fierce Earth

The team travel to Iceland to explore a country created by volcanoes. Dougal dives into the sea and touches the two tectonic plates of Eur...

S1E7: Volcanoes | Fierce Earth

The team take on one of the most feared forces on the planet - the volcano. Dougal explores the secret lava tubes of Etna and climbs Stromboli...

The Final Hours | Pompeii: The New Dig

In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry reaches its climax with chilling revelations about what people were ...

Escape | Pompeii: The New Dig

At Pompeii, a new excavation continues to unearth rich discoveries, while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians su...

The Bodies | Pompeii: The New Dig

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a so-ca...

4: Ocean of Volcanoes | South Pacific

This edition looks at the birth, growth and death of an island, with images of an erupting underwater volcano.

Eruption at Mount St. Helens | Surviving Disaster

Mount St Helens' in Washington State stood almost 10,000 feet high and in 1980 had not erupted for over one hundred years.

Geography: Mountains and Volcanoes | Bitesize Daily: 9-11 Year Olds

Learn about volcanoes, mountains, and living near an active volcano.

Volcanic eruptions | A Day in the Life of Earth

An explanation of how volcanic eruptions work.

Episode 2 | Expedition Volcano

Chris Jackson and his fellow geologists head for the volcano Nyamulagira - one of the most active yet least explored volcanoes on the planet.

Episode 1 | Expedition Volcano

Chris Jackson, Xand van Tulleken and Aldo Kane take part in an expedition to Nyiragongo - one of the world's most dangerous and spectacular vo...

Types of volcano | Fierce Earth

Dougal demonstrates different types of lava flow, particularly if the volcano is covered in rock and can add pressure and erupt.

What is a volcano? | Fierce Earth

Dougal explains how a volcano erupts.

Mount Etna | Fierce Earth

Dougal explores the hidden tunnels created by the volcano under the surface of Mount Etna.

Stromboli volcano | Fierce Earth

Dougal gets up to the top of the live volcano Stromboli in Sicily and sees it erupt.

Living near a volcano | Fierce Earth

A volcano's lava is full of minerals that make the ground perfectly fertile for growing food. Dougal visits the Italian island of Stromb...

Edinburgh’s secret volcanoes | Fierce Earth

Edinburgh castle and the neighbouring hill, "Arthur's Seat" sit in fact on long dormant volcanoes.

Famous volcanoes | Fierce Earth

Around three-quarters of the worlds volcanoes are found around the Pacific Ocean and as such is known as the "ring of fire".

Volcanoes and the carbon cycle | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson explains the important role that volcanoes play in the carbon cycle.

Effusive and Explosive eruptions | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates the differences between effusive and explosive eruptions.

Mount Nyiragongo lava | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the distinctive qualities of the lava from Mount Nyiragongo.

Phreatic eruption – Mount Ontake | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski examines the 2014 phreatic eruption of Mount Ontake, Japan and why it was hard to predict.

Rhyolite eruption – Puyehue-Cordón Caulle | Dangerous Earth

Eyjafjallajökull ash | Dangerous Earth

Effects of Yellowstone | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Volcanologists predict that Yellowstone volcano will erupt again, yet there is uncertainty about when this ...

Yellowstone | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the geology of the super volcano in Yellowstone National Park.

Mount Pinatubo | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, explaining how many lives were sa...

Mount Kilaueu | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart explains the geographical conditions in which Mount Kilaueu was created.

Effects of Volcanoes | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history and its effect on global weather.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the mid-atlantic ridge, exploring what happens to volcanos that are underwater.