Deserts - Life in the Furnace • episode "S1E2" • Human Planet

54:04

An average guy Jeb Berrier, makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this simple decision will change his life completely. He comes to the conclusion that our consumptive use of plastic has finally caught up to us, and looks at what we can do about it.

2010 • Environment

41:59

When rogue aliens launch a surprise attack on Earth, people are left dying, world governments are obliterated, cities are destroyed, and a deadly virus is unleashed. Can mankind survive or is this the end?

S1E9 • Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End • 2016 • Environment

41:41

Victor Vescovo's team searches for the deepest point of the Southern Ocean.

S1E2 • Expedition: Deep Ocean • 2021 • Environment

41:58

When Earth gets hit by a a massive chunk of the Sun known as a deadly Solar Storm, our planet's electrical system turns into a smoking ruin. How does modern civilization cope without power?

S1E5 • Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End • 2016 • Environment

45:03

How the cruise of a lifetime turned into a deadly nightmare. Passengers and day trippers were trapped when New Zealand’s most active volcano erupted. Were tourists warned of the danger and could more have been done to prevent tragedy?

Four Corners • 2020 • Environment

44:38

In Episode 1: A Changing World, we see the changes that are upsetting the scientific predictions of the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Now, one sobering forecast is that the Arctic Ocean will be seasonally ice free by the summer of 2013. This possibility is what drives environmentalists to identify ways to minimize the changes affecting this snowy land. But for prospectors like Gordon McCreary, climate change brings new opportunities. He is part of the rush to claim the riches beneath the Arctic's ice: deposits of metals, gold, diamonds, and oil and gas.

S48E15 • The Nature of Things • 2009 • Environment