My Epic Camel Adventure with Gordon Buchanan

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...

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...

Moisture in the Atacama | Planet Earth

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

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

04: Kalahari | Wilderness with Simon Reeve

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

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...

02: 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 p...

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 ...

04: 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...

09: 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 al...

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.

S02E05: 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 ...

S02E06: The Red Centre: Australia | Ray Mears' World of Survival

Ray Mears visits the Aboriginal people of the central Australian desert. He goes to Amata, where 500 Anangu ...

02: Namib: Skeleton Coast and Beyond | Eden: Untamed Planet

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts in the world, flourishing with life where none seems possible. This...

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.