Climbing Erta Ale | Hottest Place on Earth

2: Deserts - Life in the Furnace | Human Planet

A look at how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges - and ingenious solutions - for millions of people in the dr...

Life in Death Valley | Planet Earth

A single shower can transform Death Valley.

S2E4: Driest | Fierce Earth

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...

03: Mongolia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the Gobi Desert to live with an extended family of cashmere ...

Death Valley | Fierce Earth

Leo and Clare head to Death Valley in California which is 80 metres below sea level and the hottest place on earth.

Flash flood | Planet Earth

A flash flood is a rare chance for wildlife to build up food and water reserves.

S2E1: Deserts | Fierce Earth

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...

S4E5: Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti visit an extraordinary hotel built where people usually struggle to ...

Hottest Place on Earth

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...

Moisture in the Atacama | Planet Earth

Life exists in a strip of the Atacama Desert due to fog that blows in from the sea.

School in the heat | Fierce Earth

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.

Cooking in the sun | Fierce Earth

Leo and Clare use the power of the Sun's heat in Death Valley to cook different foods using different techniques.

S2E5: Christmas - The Sahara | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Rom visits the Sahara Desert. Guided by Bobo, a local of Berber descent, Rom discovers a place that is...

12: Australia's Red Centre | Nature's Microworlds

Steve Backshall reveals huge kangaroos, the world's most venomous snake and a burrowing toad living among the throng of ani...

2: The Mucubal | Tribe with Bruce Parry

Bruce Parry visits the Mucubal, a community surviving in Angola's harsh Namib Desert, and experiences an extraordinary way of life pr...

3D model of Erte Ale | Hottest Place on Earth

The team manage to make a 3D model of Erte Ale, from scans taken inside the volcano's crater.

4: Beyond the Great Wall | Wild China

From tribes hunting with eagles to the baking deserts of central Asia, the extreme landscapes in northern China mean life is always on ...

4: Desert Worlds | The Green Planet

Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage an...

4: Kalahari | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari, be...

9: Namib Desert | Nature's Microworlds

Steve Backshall visits the Namib in Africa, where animals use clever tactics to combat the heat. He reveals the unique secret that all...