Explorer Victor Vescovo and his team head to the Indian Ocean.
Victor Vescovo's team searches for the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean.
2021 • Environment
Victor Vescovo's team searches for the deepest point of the Southern Ocean.
2021 • Environment
Victor Vescovo's team takes on the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
2021 • Environment
Victor Vescovo's team concludes their mission in the Arctic Victor Vescovo's team concludes their mission in the Arctic Ocean..
2021 • Environment
See how Tokyo is looking for new ways to fight back against rising waters. Typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes and sinking neighborhoods threaten one of the world’s most populous cities, and the economic engine of Japan, with some of the world’s largest problems.
2/4 • Sinking Cities • 2018 • Environment
Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people who have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. He travels to an abandoned village just outside the zone to witness a nuclear clean-up operation.
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
A look at what is being done to preserve the South Pacific and its wildlife.
6/6 • South Pacific • Environment
Victor Vescovo's team searches for the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean.
S1E1 • Expedition: Deep Ocean • 2021 • Environment
Meat is a complicated issue. But also a delicious one. Let's talk about it.
In a Nutshell • 2018 • Environment