Weather and Climate

Episode 3 | The Great British Weather

Alexander Armstrong, Chris Hollins and Carol Kirkwood are live in Greenwich Park as they take a look at the sun and the unique role it ...

3: Weather | A Perfect Planet

How weather controls the distribution of freshwater on Earth, which in turn shapes the lives of animals in diverse habitats around the globe.

2: The Sun | A Perfect Planet

From the frozen poles to the searing deserts, this episode shows how animals have come up with strategies to survive the uneven amounts of sunl...

3: Wind | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart sets sail on one of the fastest racing boats ever built to explore the story of our turbulent relationship with the wind.

2: Water | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. He investigates how water has influenced the r...

3: Temperature: The Driving Force | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond investigates the crucial role temperature plays in all weather. He builds a dust storm ...

1: Wind: The Invisible Force | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond investigates how wind actually starts. He walks into the centre of a man-made tornado and vi...

2: Water: The Shape Shifter | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond investigates the role water plays in the weather. He tries to weigh a cloud, finds out how ra...

Episode 3 | Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Kate Humble is in the Arctic, where spring arrives with a bang. Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle...

Episode 2 | Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, this time travelling from ...

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey

Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, travelling first from July to the Dece...

2: Atmosphere | Earth: The Power of the Planet

Dr Iain Stewart reveals the natural forces that shaped the earth. He traces the history of the atmosphere, from the ozone laye...

Thunder and Lightning | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond demonstrates the weather conditions that produce thunder and lightning.

Snowflakes | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond explains the constantly changing shape of snowflakes.

Sand Storms | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond demonstrates how sand can travel all the way from the Sahara Desert to Britain.

Dust Storms | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond explains what happens inside a dust storm.

Rainfall | Wild Weather With Richard Hammond

Why does water fall as rain? Richard Hammond demonstrates the effect of water on other physical objects.

Powder Avalanche | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond explains what is going on in an avalanche.

Avalanche | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond discusses the potential power of snow in the form of an avalanche.

Rain Versus Drizzle | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond explains how rain is formed and why it is different to drizzle.

1: Are We Changing Planet Earth? | Climate Chaos

David Attenborough explores just how far climate change is altering our planet, and suggests that our daily activities may b...

7: Climatic Change | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

Ben Garrod and Alice Roberts investigate the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 mi...

A manmade disaster on a global scale | Climate Change: The Facts

David Attenborough introduces the evidence that climate change is caused by human activity.

Carbon Dioxide | Climate Change By Numbers

Prof David Spiegelhalter estimates that 1 trillion tonnes of carbon can be burned before we trigger dangerous climate change.

Human Influence on Warming | Climate Change By Numbers

Using statistics and graphs, Dr Norman Fenton demonstrates the impact that burning fossil fuels has had on climate cha...

Global Dimming | Horizon

Scientists have discovered "Global Dimming". We are getting less sunlight every year since the 1950's. There is time to avoid a catastrophe if the p...

Climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson discusses the extreme climate change in the last 100 years.

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The climate has been changing since time began. The explanation that it's now changing faster because of man-made CO2 emissions is, at bes...

07: Worlds of Wonder | Frozen Planet II

A journey through the world’s coldest realms with the most-loved animals from the series, including emperor penguins and one of the l...

7: I Make All Things New | Families Like Ours

Laura spends Christmas Eve alone, while her mother settles in to their new life in Bucharest. She misses her father, who now li...

6: A Time to Get and a Time to Lose | Families Like Ours

The situation is bleak for Elias as he tries to travel through Poland. Laura is reunited with Fanny but fears she wi...

5: Beyond All Boundaries | Families Like Ours

Most people have left Denmark. Jacob risks his entire family’s welfare in order to find Laura, who makes long-awaited contact w...

4: Farewell, Denmark | Families Like Ours

It is the day of Fanny’s departure for Romania, and both Fanny and Laura do their best to put on a brave face. Nikolaj and Henrik a...

3: The Angel's Watch | Families Like Ours

The nation gathers for a church service to mark the official dismantling of the state of Denmark. Peter takes a group of angry work...

2: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | Families Like Ours

Everything is in chaos. Everyone is relying on Jacob to find the money needed to relocate his extended family to ...

1: The Hour Draws Near | Families Like Ours

Rapidly rising water levels mean Denmark needs to be evacuated soon. For 19-year-old student Laura and her family, the news will ...

Episode 1 | Future Earth

Carl Nasman explores the specific challenges cities and urbanised areas face as temperatures rise.

5: Humans | A Perfect Planet

Humans are changing our planet so rapidly, it's affecting Earth's life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.

Melting Glaciers | From Above

As glaciers in Pakistan-administered Gilgit Baltistan melt at an alarming rate, we see the real-life consequences for people living in the area...

2: Climate Change | World 2000

How will climate change affect us?

7: On Thin Ice | Frozen Planet

David Attenborough journeys to the poles to investigate what rising temperatures will mean for the people and wildlife that live there, and fo...

4: Australia and Mexico | Life at 50°C

Life at 50 Degrees is a new BBC series which explores the impact of climate change on people across the globe. In episode four, we se...

5: The Town that Burnt Down in a Day | Life at 50°C

Life at 50 Degrees is a BBC series that explores the impact of climate change on people across the globe. This special e...

3: Iraq and Kuwait | Life at 50°C

Life at 50 Degrees is a BBC series which explores the impact of climate change on people across the globe. In episode three, we see how li...

2: India and Pakistan | Life at 50°C

Life at 50 Degrees is a BBC series which explores the impact of climate change on people across the globe. In episode two, we see how l...

1: Nigeria and Mauritania | Life at 50°C

Life at 50 Degrees is a BBC series which explores the impact of climate change on people across the globe. In episode one, we see h...

2: Bangladesh and Bhutan | Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline

In Bangladesh and Bhutan, Ade Adepitan sees the damage that climate change is causing and finds out how we ca...

1: The Solomon Islands and Australia | Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline

Ade Adepitan sees the damage that climate change is causing, and finds out how we can fight it - ...

2: Can We Save Planet Earth? | Climate Chaos

In the second of a two-part documentary, David Attenborough explores how much climate change is altering our planet, looking at ...

Episode 2 | Future Earth

Carl Nasman explores how climate change education is becoming a more prominent part of some schools' curriculums and looks at how young people are a...

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...

2: Climate Change | Generation Activism

Robin is passionate about protecting the environment and has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. He films himself over the...

Episode 2 | Great Climate Fight

Mary tries to hold Jeremy Hunt to account for the oil and gas industry's £2 billion tax breaks. Hugh calls out the Energy Secretary. Kevin im...

Great Climate Fight

Mary tackles government subsidies of oil and gas, Kevin asks why British houses are so expensive to heat, and Hugh demands that we stop blocking the chea...

Episode 3 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

As the world is bought to a standstill by the Covid-19 pandemic, Greta has to put her plans on hold.

Episode 2 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Greta sets off to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Greta travels through North America on her way to a UN climate conference in Chile.

3: Scandinavia | Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline

In the final episode, Ade Adepitan heads to Scandinavia. As he travels across the region, he learns about winter temper...

S1E11: We Could Actually Stop Climate Change? | Hey You, What If?

The planet is being destroyed - but this episode demonstrates the things you can do to help save it.

Mitigating climate change | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Simon visits a factory that through renewable energy removes carbon dioxide from the air.

Greta meets David Attenborough | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough discuss their hopes for the future of the planet.

Climate Change: The Facts

After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat.

COP26 delegates and climate scientists | Climate Change: The Facts

COP26 delegates and climate scientist Hannah Cloke discuss their hopes for the COP26 conference.

Renewable Energy | Climate Change: The Facts

Methods of producing renewable energy and reducing carbon emissions.

Deforestation | Climate Change: The Facts

Demonstration of the vast scale of deforestation to grow palm oil.

BedZED Sustainable Housing | Climate Change: Britain Under Threat

Kate Humble explores Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) as a combatant to living with climate change.

2: The Sun | A Perfect Planet

From the frozen poles to the searing deserts, this episode shows how animals have come up with strategies to survive the uneven amounts of sunl...

8: European Climates | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

1: A New Perspective | Earth From Space

From space, we follow elephants struggling through drought, reveal unknown penguin colonies from the colour of their poo, and discove...

S2E5: World's Wettest Place | Fierce Earth

Mike, Dougal and Leah are on an epic, rain-soaked, monsoon journey. The team travel the length of India tracking the monsoon - the...

S1E9: World's Coldest | Fierce Earth

This Fierce Earth special takes viewers on a journey to one of the world's coldest and most hostile places on the planet - the Yukon Ter...

Heat | Wild Weather

In the last programme of the series, Donal Macintyre experiences hot and humid conditions in Belize and the exhausting dry heat of the desert during the ...

Cold | Wild Weather

Donal Macintyre explores extreme cold weather. He is buried alive, frozen solid and meets those that have survived the deadliest winter weather, from ava...

Hurricane Melissa: The Storm That Hit Jamaica | BBC News

One of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record made landfall in Jamaica with 185mph winds. Category 5 Hurrica...

05: People of the Monsoon | Wonders of the Monsoon

This episode examines the relationship between nature and the people of the monsoon.

04: Strange Castaways | Wonders of the Monsoon

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the combination of monsoon and volcanoes has created a paradise.

03: The Drought | Wonders of the Monsoon

During the part of the year that the monsoon does not bring rain, the winds reverse, bringing dry air instead.

02: Deluge | Wonders of the Monsoon

From India to Thailand and Cambodia, the Asian monsoon makes its grand entrance, the bringer of life and the destroyer.

01: Waiting for the Rains | Wonders of the Monsoon

From India to Australia, all life awaits the transforming power of the monsoon rains.

Episode 4 | The Great British Weather

From Stirling Castle in the Scottish countryside, the team looks at some of the most dramatic storms ever seen in the UK and investigat...

5: Tornado | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski peers into the heart of the storm to find out how advances in technology are giving new insight into tornadoes - the fastest wi...

3: Lightning | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski examines the hottest natural phenomenon on the planet - lightning. High-speed cameras show the secrets of upward lightning th...

Storm Bert Batters the UK | From Above

A weekend in November 2024 saw homes destroyed and lives changed forever during Storm Bert. Watch the storm and its impact unfold from...

Storm Boris Floods in Europe | From Above

Floods have been sweeping through central Europe - leaving destruction behind them - see Storm Boris from above.

S2E6: Avalanches | Fierce Earth

The team travel to avalanche country and the French ski town of Tignes, in the Alps. Clare and Dougal go skiing in the shadow of the biggest ...

S2E2: Blizzards | Fierce Earth

In this Fierce Earth special, US storm-chaser Mike Theiss travels into the heart of the Boston Blizzard of February 2013. He witnesses first-h...

S1E8: Tornadoes | Fierce Earth

Tornadoes are rare, but there's nothing more frantic or explosive in nature. The team investigates where that awesome power comes from and wha...

S1E6: Thunderstorms | Fierce Earth

At any one time it is estimated that 2000 thunderstorms are happening across the world. The team investigate what makes the thundercloud s...

S1E3: World's Hottest | Fierce Earth

In this Fierce Earth special, Clare and Leo head to Death Valley in California which is officially the hottest place in the entire world...

S1E1: Hurricanes | Fierce Earth

The team encounters the most feared event in weather - the hurricane. Florida-based stormchaser Mike takes us on a wild ride into the eye of ...

S1E2: Wildfires | Fierce Earth

The team investigates wildfires and discovers how they rage all over the world leaving a trail of devastation and destruction. We travel to Co...

Somerset | Countryfile

The team are in Somerset, revisiting areas hit by 2014's floods.

Episode 2 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. Simon and Kate explore why wind is such...

Episode 1 | The Great British Weather

Interactive live series focusing on Britain's weather. The team explore why Britain gets the weather it does, and how weather was cruci...

Episode 2 | The Great British Weather

Alexander Armstrong presents the weather show from Ullswater in the Lake District, where the team investigate why it rains more often i...

5: British Climate | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

Wild Weather of the West | Wild Weather

Forecaster Ian Fergusson leaves his weather map behind on a journey through the wet, the windy, the sunny, the stormy and the snowies...

Wild Weather of the Midlands | Wild Weather

From tornados to floods, Shefali Oza goes in search of the Midlands' most extreme weather. She discovers how the region's landsca...

Jet Stream | Wild Weather

An exploration of flooding in Britain due to a disruption in the jet stream caused by global warming.

Tornadoes and Lightning | Wild Weather

An exploration of the conditions that produce tornadoes and lightning in Birmingham.

Heat in the UK | Wild Weather

An exploration of Britain's highest temperatures in Cheltenham.

The South West | Wild Weather

David Braine examines extreme weather. The South West enjoys milder, wilder and more varied weather than the rest of England. Parts of the regi...

Climate in the City | Wild Weather

Weatherman Peter Cockroft explores the highs and lows of London's unique climate. As he journeys around the capital he reveals why the out...