No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size. In Crimea, a mountain has been carved into a james bondian submarine base. In northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear site has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.
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Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
Finders Keepers, Have fun watching these wild animals pilfering to satisfy their cravings
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no question and pass no criticisms.
George returns to the Fin Del Mundo at the southern tip of Argentina, this time to sail on a Russian icebreaker to Antarctica. After braving the stormy Drake passage, he explores volcanic Deception Island, camps out in the Antarctic snow, and paddles a kayak through icebergs calved off the melting glaciers.
No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size. In Crimea, a mountain has been carved into a james bondian submarine base. In northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear site has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.
Early September of 2008 saw radical imagery on the hurricane maps of the Atlantic four named tropical storms, swirling in a train across the ocean. Angry Planet was there as three of them made landfall as hurricanes in the US. We filmed gustaf in Louisiana, Hanna in North Carolina, then flew with the USAF Hurricane Hunters into Ike over cuba, and met it again as it made a wild destructive landfall in Galveston, Texas.
The most notorious volcanic explosion in history came from the small island of Krakatoa, off the coast of Java, The tiny island was pulverized and the giant explosion was felt half way around the world. Java is at the heart of the Ring of Fire, and so has seen many volcanoes, mud slides and earthquakes through its long history.
It is time for Angry Planet to do a serious desert episode. What better place to do it than this fabled city in the middle of the mighty Sahara Desert.This almost mythical place really does exist. And it really is still possible to travel there by camel caravan, riding the infamous Ships of the Desert. Extreme heat, dehydration, possible sand storms, frigid night temperatures and desert predators are our potential companions for the trip.
Italy is one of the very few nations in the world that regularly gets three major extreme natural phenomena volcanos, flooding, and avalanches. Eastern flanks of the volcano to slip by up to two metres, and many houses on the flanks of the volcano experienced structural damage. The eruption also completely destroyed the Rifugio Sapienza, on the southern flank of the volcano. The Rifugio was the site of a cable car station which had previously been destroyed in the 1983 eruption both have now been rebuilt. The most recent eruption was in November 2006.
Stormchasing developed in Australia in the same period the 1990s as it developed in the American Midwest. In the first week of December the height of storm season in Australia, we plan to travel with Jimmy Deguara, the most experienced of Australian stormchasers.
In the porous limestone of Canadas West Coast, great forces are at work under the ground, building and eroding the underground into fantastic shapes. In this episode well witness Georges explorations of these massive underground cave systems.
A mysterious fever overwhelms Mark as he struggles to fulfill a childhood dream. He must use every ounce of inner strength to journey to the mouth of hell, and make it out alive.
Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
Meteorologists Jaclyn Whittal and Mark Robinson are on a hunt in Tornado Alley to track down some of the world's ferocious weather. Their goal – to learn more about the hidden forces that lurk in the skies.
Take a look at the beautiful little Aquatic creatures that add cuteness to the vast marine life
You gotta do what you gotta do!
In this episode we show some of the most extreme winter weather ever caught on camera, including a first-hand look at being buried by an avalanche.
It's man versus nature in a race against time. Heart-pounding rescues captured on camera in these viral weather videos.
A bass fishing trip goes horribly wrong when a bolt of lightning strikes their boat, leaving Seventeen-year-old Christian Neal burned and unconscious and his father Gabe blown into the water and paralyzed. It will take a miracle to save them.
Justin and Jeremy Harris' weekend descent into a remote Utah canyon becomes a survival nightmare when Justin severely breaks his leg. As night fast approaches and temperatures drop below freezing, how will these two brothers survive?
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