BBC Earth

When bears, wolves and foxes are your only neighbours, life can be pretty lonely. Add minus-60-degree days and a constant battle for the most basic necessities, and you have the daily challenges of people who live in remote corners of Alaska. This series takes viewers deep into an Alaskan winter to meet tough, resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to survive the season. When the closest neighbour is more than 300 miles away, these Alaskans subsist solely on what is hunted and foraged. They catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, or use their packs of sled dogs for transportation. Also highlighted is a time of year not always part of what viewers see in Alaska: spring! Ice is breaking, animals are waking, and residents face new tests before deep cold returns

Gregg Wallace is in France, at an enormous croissant factory where they produce 336,000 of the flaky pastries every day. He follows the production of croissants from the arrival of 21 tonnes of butter right through to dispatch

Steve's journey has reached Peru in South America. Dominated by the towering Andes mountain range, it's a challenging environment where animals survive by being deadly, and Steve is on their trail. In the mountain's shadow Steve searches cactus strewn scrubland for a rare barnett's lancehead. This heat sensing ambush predator is a venomous viper with a fearsome reputation

To survive the worsening conditions in the Arctic, Alaskans must finish the tasks that will keep them ahead of winter's wrath. Glenn Villeneuve hunts caribou to keep his family fed

Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water

The experts attempt to solve the mystery of an empty tomb and a missing Pharaoh as they search for Egypt's most mysterious and controversial ruler Hatshepsut and enter a world of ambition, power and poison

A look at blizzards all over the world, including a pair of historic blizzards that hit the mid-Atlantic coast of America in 2010, and a shocking storm that struck Central Europe in 2017

Nick Crane follows a centuries-old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend-on-Sea. At Southend, he asks why Britain's longest pier was built here. As he makes his way to Margate, Nick discovers why this resort once literally saved lives and how it has reinvented itself for the modern tourist by relying on some old traditions

Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water

To survive the worsening conditions in the Arctic, Alaskans must finish the tasks that will keep them ahead of winter's wrath. Glenn Villeneuve hunts caribou to keep his family fed

A look at blizzards all over the world, including a pair of historic blizzards that hit the mid-Atlantic coast of America in 2010, and a shocking storm that struck Central Europe in 2017

Gregg Wallace is in France, at an enormous croissant factory where they produce 336,000 of the flaky pastries every day. He follows the production of croissants from the arrival of 21 tonnes of butter right through to dispatch

The experts attempt to solve the mystery of an empty tomb and a missing Pharaoh as they search for Egypt's most mysterious and controversial ruler Hatshepsut and enter a world of ambition, power and poison

The team travel to the freezing waters of the Antarctic to film the world of the creatures living under the ice. They also discover that creating their very own shipwreck in the Bahamas is much more difficult than they imagined

Nick Crane follows a centuries-old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend-on-Sea. At Southend, he asks why Britain's longest pier was built here. As he makes his way to Margate, Nick discovers why this resort once literally saved lives and how it has reinvented itself for the modern tourist by relying on some old traditions

Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water

To survive the worsening conditions in the Arctic, Alaskans must finish the tasks that will keep them ahead of winter's wrath. Glenn Villeneuve hunts caribou to keep his family fed

A look at blizzards all over the world, including a pair of historic blizzards that hit the mid-Atlantic coast of America in 2010, and a shocking storm that struck Central Europe in 2017

Nick Crane follows a centuries-old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend-on-Sea. At Southend, he asks why Britain's longest pier was built here. As he makes his way to Margate, Nick discovers why this resort once literally saved lives and how it has reinvented itself for the modern tourist by relying on some old traditions

Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water

We're just two degrees away from a climate catastrophe. If the rate of global warming continues, we'll reach the threshold for permanent environmental damage within 40 years. But we have the power to prevent it

Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep

Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep

Adventurer Ben Fogle reunites with some of the people he met in previous series of `Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild'. These people had turned their backs on the rat-race and set up home in some of the most remote locations on Earth

A look at blizzards all over the world, including a pair of historic blizzards that hit the mid-Atlantic coast of America in 2010, and a shocking storm that struck Central Europe in 2017

Gregg Wallace is in France, at an enormous croissant factory where they produce 336,000 of the flaky pastries every day. He follows the production of croissants from the arrival of 21 tonnes of butter right through to dispatch

The experts attempt to solve the mystery of an empty tomb and a missing Pharaoh as they search for Egypt's most mysterious and controversial ruler Hatshepsut and enter a world of ambition, power and poison

A look at blizzards all over the world, including a pair of historic blizzards that hit the mid-Atlantic coast of America in 2010, and a shocking storm that struck Central Europe in 2017

Nick Crane follows a centuries-old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend-on-Sea. At Southend, he asks why Britain's longest pier was built here. As he makes his way to Margate, Nick discovers why this resort once literally saved lives and how it has reinvented itself for the modern tourist by relying on some old traditions

Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water