Weather and Climate

03: 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...

01: 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 v...

02: 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 lay...

02: 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 r...

Episode 1 | 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...

03: 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.

Bang Goes the Winter Weather | Bang Goes the Theory

A special hour-long edition of the science programme sees Liz, Dallas and Jem get under the bonnet of Britain's recent we...

01: Wind | Wild Weather

Series in which Donal Macintyre goes in search of the world's wildest weather. This edition uses 3-D graphics to illustrate how wind and weather syst...

03: Hurricane Hell | Wild Caribbean

Every year in the Caribbean hurricanes rip forests apart and coral reefs are turned to rubble. These are the survival stories of the isla...

Thunder and Lightning | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

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

02: 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 ...

02: Wet | Wild Weather

A series in which Donal Macintyre goes in search of the world's wildest weather. In this programme, he learns about floods and the world's wettest pla...

05: The World's Weather | Landmarks

A look at the huge variety of climates in the world and the methods that animals, plants and people use to survive in these extremes.

Rainfall | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

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

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 ...

Measuring Tornadoes | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond measures the wind speed of a tornado.

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...

Fire Whirl | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond demonstrates a fire whirl and explains how fire accentuates wind speed.

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 ...

02: 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 sun...

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...

01: 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 ...

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

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

Emission Impossible | Short Circuit

Style, performance, and status sell cars-but where does the environment fit in? Can manufacturers produce zero-emission vehicles that peo...

Climate change over time | 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: Climatic Change | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

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 global warming | Climate Change By Numbers

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

The ocean and the earth's climate | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates how the ocean regulates the earth's climate with stored up heat energy.

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...

01: 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 -...

02: 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 c...

Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat | Panorama

Justin Rowlatt reveals where in the world the climate is changing the fastest and who will be most affected.

Red Alert: Europe's Heat Emergency | BBC News Special

As a heatwave hits the UK and Western Europe, Christian Fraser has live coverage, analysis from BBC editors and expert ...

S08E06: Flooding | Bang Goes the Theory

Did global warming play a part in the recent floods, or is it the extreme end of the natural cycle? Maggie Philbin investigates the t...

Boiling Point: The Week of Extreme Heat | BBC News

The last week of June 2026 saw record-breaking temperatures across parts of the UK and Europe. While some enjoyed the suns...

02: 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 ...

Heatwaves: The New Normal? | Weather: Beyond the Forecast

How hot is too hot? From heat labs to firefighting helicopter pilots and wineries, this is a look at how extreme he...

03: 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 l...

01: 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 ...

Climate Change: Britain Under Threat

David Attenborough, Kate Humble and Matt Allwright investigate how climate change could threaten the UK, revealing the results of an exp...

04: 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 s...

Why Cities Flood: Spain's Deadly Disaster | Why...?

Dramatic mobile phone video and eyewitness accounts tell the story of the 2024 floods that swept through towns in Valenci...

Svalbard's Climate Change Fight | Our World

Our World travels to the fastest warming place on earth: Svalbard. The world's northernmost settlement, Longyearbyen, is estimate...

The Day Los Angeles Burned | Panorama

On 7 January 2025, wildfires engulfed parts of Los Angeles. Panorama examines how climate change and claims of underfunding for public ...

Climate Change by Numbers

A look at three key numbers that clarify the important questions on climate change, giving a unique perspective on what we know about the past, pre...

05: 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.

07: 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 f...

Australia Burning | Panorama

Panorama hears from the people living in the path of last year's bush fires in Australia, and asks whether such events are to become normal.

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...

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.

03: 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 tempe...

Climate Change: What Can We Do? | Panorama

To meet the government's emissions reductions targets, we'll need to make big changes to the way we live, travel and eat. But how ...

Can Scientists Save the World? | Panorama

Richard Bilton meets the scientists trying to save the world from the consequences of climate change and investigates whether they...

Episode 1 | Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

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

BedZED Sustainable Housing | Climate Change: Britain Under Threat

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

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

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

Causes of climate change: deforestation | Climate Change: The Facts

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

Can Eating Insects Save the World?

Stefan Gates immerses himself in the extraordinary world of insect-eating in a bid to conquer his lingering revulsion of bugs and discover...

02: Climate Change | Generation Activism

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

Rewiring Britain: The Race to Go Green | Panorama

With huge clean energy projects stirring anger across Britain, Justin Rowlatt meets the people taking sides in the battle o...

Sustainability and Style | The Conscious Closet

What is greenwashing? What really happens to our old clothes? Is vegan leather worth the hype? And why is fast fashion so che...

Carbon capture in Iceland | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

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

Greta Thunberg | Amol Rajan Interviews

Amol Rajan talks to 19-year-old Greta Thunberg, the climate activist who has become the voice of a global youth.

S04E01: Britain's Embarrassing Emissions | Mischief

Rebecca Wilcox has an embarrassing problem - her carbon dioxide emissions, but she's ready to do something about them. Bu...

Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance to Save the World?

A huge new global protest movement is changing public attitudes to climate change. Reporter Ben Zand gains access to the...

02: 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...

Views on COP26 | Climate Change: The Facts

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

Tackling Climate Change

Justin Rowlatt puts your global climate questions to UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres.

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...

04: 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 ...

01: 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 discov...

03: 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...

02: 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 sun...

08: European Climates | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

Britain's Wild Weather | Panorama

Justin Rowlatt visits communities around Britain battered by this year's extreme weather - unprecedented rainfall, sunshine and sustained h...

2020 | Britain's Wildest Weather

Footage of the most extreme weather conditions in the UK over the past year, from the worst floods in a decade and a freak landslide in Fife...

Red Alert: Europe's Heat Emergency | BBC News Special

As a heatwave hits the UK and Western Europe, Christian Fraser has live coverage, analysis from BBC editors and expert ...

Boiling Point: The Week of Extreme Heat | BBC News

The last week of June 2026 saw record-breaking temperatures across parts of the UK and Europe. While some enjoyed the suns...

Somerset: After the Floods

The Somerset Levels faced a natural disaster in the winter of 2013. The village of Moorland was entirely engulfed by the floods. This follows thos...

World's Weirdest Weather

Weatherman Alex Beresford explores the world of weird weather. Using a combination of footage from smart phones and cameras, personal testimonies, e...

Storms | Britain's Most Extreme Weather

From the tidal surges that flooded North Sea coasts and the hurricane force winds that battered our western shores. Further back we r...

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...

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm

A dramatic minute-by-minute account of the superstorm that brought New York State to its knees, including a forensic analyis of the devastatio...

Prisoners of Katrina | This World

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thousands fled New Orleans, the city's prisoners were trapped. Fresh eye-witness accounts reve...

Episode 1 | Wildfires 2014: Inside the Inferno

Kate Humble and Simon Reeve investigate Australia's worst wildfire season in a decade. They explore why wildfires in Australia...

Typhoon Haiyan | Review

Features the chaos and suffering caused by Typhoon Haiyan.

05: 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 w...

S01E01 | Nature's Weirdest Events

Chris Packham examines some of the weirdest natural events on the planet, including a car cocooned by caterpillars in Holland and a case of...

The Year Britain Flooded

It was England's wettest year since records began; this documentary explores why 2012's relentless floods happened and tells the personal stories of...

The Storms That Stole Christmas

The people who bore the brunt of the relentless stream of powerful storms that battered Britain across Christmas 2013 relive their experience...

Coastal erosion | Panorama

The erosion of the coastline and destruction of homes by storms.

Surviving The Typhoon | Newsround Specials

Newsround's Leah Gooding travels to the Philippines to see how children are coping following Typhoon Haiyan. Speaking to kids who ...

Rising temperatures and wildfires | Panorama

Rising temperatures are causing wildfires in dry areas of Britain.

Predicting future climate change scenarios | Panorama

The MET Office provide a visualisation of how much the planet could warm by the end of the century, if we do not curb o...

Bang Goes the Winter Weather | Bang Goes the Theory

A special hour-long edition of the science programme sees Liz, Dallas and Jem get under the bonnet of Britain's recent we...

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...

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...

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...

Tornadoes and Lightning | Wild Weather

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

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...

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...

Heat in the UK | Wild Weather

An exploration of Britain's highest temperatures in Cheltenham.

05: British Climate | Geography in Animation

Series exploring key processes in physical geography.

Jet Stream | Wild Weather

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