Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
Will Smith heads to the bottom of the ocean to discover a world of color in the dark.
S1E2 • Welcome to Earth • 2021 • Environment
Stabilizing our planet's life-support system won't be easy — but it can be done. And our survival depends upon it.
2021 • Environment
Never before in human history have we been richer, more advanced or powerful. And yet we feel overwhelmed in the face of rapid climate change. It seems simple on the surface. Greenhouse gases trap energy from the Sun and transfer it to our atmosphere. This leads to warmer winters, harsher summers. Dry places become drier and wet places wetter. Countless ecosystems will die while the rising oceans swallow coasts and the cities we build on them.
In a Nutshell • 2021 • Environment
Ice may be nothing more than frozen water but, as Iain explains, it holds extraordinary power. Descending 150m down a frozen waterfall, he sees a glacier in action from below and discovers why the huge Jacobshaven glacier is retreating, he shows how it shaped our past and may now threaten our future.
Blizzards; it's one of the Earth's most beautiful secrets until it turns into a storm that can bring entire cities to a grinding halt.
S1E8 • Secrets of the Earth • 2013 • Environment
In the Vega Archipelago, in the north of Norway at the Arctic Circle, people have formed a unique partnership with wild eider ducks. The provide the birds with shelter in hatcheries, and in return, after the breeding season, collect the precious eiderdown, with which the ducks line their nests.
4/5 • Paradise Preserved • 2019 • Environment