"planet earth" (281 results)
Professor Chris Jackson explains Planet Earth's 4.5 billion year history, while on a 100-metre walk around...
This grey bowerbird has spent over a decade curating his collection of mostly man-made objects, designed to impress ...
Hatchling marine iguanas race to avoid being caught by the waiting snakes.
Dragon territories overlap, creating continual conflict.
David Attenborough describes how mother bears show their cubs how to shed their winter coats.
Developed by Japanese TV company NHK, the image intensifier (II) system has a camera chip 300 times more powerful than the standard digibeta c...
In the forests of Malaysia a draco lizard makes a speedy getaway when challenged by a rival male.
In the forests of Guatemala a young spider monkey is going exploring. But she gets stuck and needs dad's help to...
The crew seized an unexpected opportunity, when a perfect set of technical and animal circumstances converged, to film this behaviour for ...
The tiny island of Escudo de Veraguas is home to the pygmy three-toed sloth. Smaller than its mainland relatives it lives in the mangroves o...
Food is plentiful amongst the flower heads but this mouse must be vigilant for p...
As a bull elephant strides through the grasslands of Botswana, a flock of bee-eaters jostle to grab the...
Snow leopards live solitary lives, but remain well aware of the presence of their neighbours, because they leave message...
A billion locusts take to the air in a ravening swarm in Madagascar.
In the New Guinea rainforest, different species of tree fight for sunlight.
The water cycle in rainforests.
The high humidity of the rainforest creates the ideal environment for life built on decay.
How the desert is shaped by sandstorms.
Life exists in a strip of the Atacama Desert due to fog that blows in from the sea.
A flash flood is a rare chance for wildlife to build up food and water reserves.
A single shower can transform Death Valley.
How rain has shaped the Tepuis of Venezuela.
The early stages of a mountain stream and the wildlife that lives there.
For five million years, the Colorado River has carved its way through the landscape, creating the Grand Canyon.
How limestone has been shaped over millions of years into a variety of different rock formations, including underground cave systems.
Footage from diving in cenotes in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula.
Life that manages to survive in a cave in Mexico that has sulphuric acid in the water.
How stalactites and stalagmites are formed in caves, from limestone dissolved in water droplets.
The walls of these caves are covered in fragile crystals made of gypsum, which is created when limestone is dissolved by sulphuric acid.
David Attenborough discusses the effects on polar bears of melting Arctic ice caused by global warming.
A polar bear and her cubs race to get to the sea ice to hunt seals before it melts.
The great white sharks migrate to more tropical waters to capitalise on the seasonal abundance of seals.
The gelada babboon and the walia ibex work together to avoid capture by mountain wolves.
A rarely sighted snow leopard demonstrates her agility and balance when hunting her prey.
An alpha male langur takes part in a high speed chase across city rooftops to defend his females from marauding younger ma...
Botos echolocate through dense Amazon vegetation.
At 65km wide and 160km long, this is one of the greatest of all desert spectacles and is rarely seen on this scale.
To film rare footage of non-habituated, wild Arctic wolves, the crew had to camp 350km away from the nearest settlement.
The snakes proved very inquisitive, wrapping themselves around the cameraman's legs.
Vertiginous slopes keep ibex families safe from predators but they need to descend to flat ground to drink and this brings them in ...
Dr Iain Stewart explains how snow is transformed into glacier ice.
Professor Iain Stewart investigates a mud volcano in Indonesia that was caused by human interactions with the earth.
The important role of satellite cameras in protecting the earth.
Two identical snowflakes have never been found.
Satellite images depict the growth of cities over time.
Satellite images visualise Earth's wild spaces shrinking.
Satellite images depict wild spaces in Indonesia being replaced by palm oil farms.
Satellite images depict how humans have exploited natural resources and the waste that we have left behind.
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