Living without water: competing for natural resources | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Moisture in the Atacama | Planet Earth

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

Living without water: humans copying nature | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Ways humans mimic desert plants and animals to conserve or gather water.

Living without water: finding water using ancient skills | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Time-tested survival techniques for locating hidden water in dry landscapes.

03: The Heat | Landmarks

A look at the struggles of people in Tunisia, where life involves a constant battle against the heat and the sand.

Dallol volcano | Hottest Place on Earth

The team explore the volcano system in Dallol, in the Danakil Depression.

Flash flood | Planet Earth

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

Life in Death Valley | Planet Earth

A single shower can transform Death Valley.

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.

Climbing Erta Ale | Hottest Place on Earth

The team climb up and into the crater of Erta Ale volcano.

Dabbahu earthquake fissure | Hottest Place on Earth

The team attempt to digitally map a fissure created by an earthquake.

Erta Ale from the Sky | Hottest Place on Earth

The team fly over Erte Ale and the land around the lava lake in a helicopter.

Living without water: finding water using ancient technology | Human Planet: Change and Sustainability

Historic tools and systems that helped societies capture and store water.

Sandstorm | Planet Earth

How the desert is shaped by sandstorms.

02: 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 d...

Desertification | Newsnight

Featuring the wall of green land preventing desertification in sub-Saharan Africa.

01: Kalahari | Africa

David Attenborough explores two deserts in Africa's south west, where he encounters meerkats, black rhinos, giant insects and the greatest giraffe batt...

04: 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 a...

Episode 1 | Ben and James versus the Arabian Desert

James Cracknel and Ben Fogle trek deep into the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert in the footsteps of explorer Wilfred ...

05: Sahara | Africa

David Attenborough's breathtaking journey through Africa. In the Sahara Desert, huge zebras battle for resources, camels seek water, and tiny swallows se...

Desertification | Nature

John Howard rep from Almeria, SE Spain - driest place in Europe, where tomatoes grow in plastic greenhouses, & soil erosion causes desert to advance