BBC Earth

Josh and Oli find an emergency shelter as Super Typhoon Mangkhut rages through the night in the Philippines, while in North Carolina, Hurricane Florence refuses to move on

Josh races to get into position with film-maker Caroline as Hurricane Willa barrels towards Sinaloa in western Mexico, while James faces an agonising decision over his own safety

Josh attempts to get inside Super Typhoon Yutu, the strongest storm of 2018, arriving in the Philippines just as the typhoon starts to bring down power lines

Joanna's Silk Road journey takes her to Iran. Throughout the country she meets people eager to share the culture and innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far beyond modern-day Iran

As Joanna's Silk Road Adventure draws to a close, she travels across the stunning yet little-known Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Starting in the Kyzl-Kum desert she explores the Silk Road citadel of Khiva, a town infamous for its history of slavery. In the capital, Tashkent, she marvels at the splendid Soviet-built Metro system and attends a high society wedding as the guest of a famous pop star

Coasts are the most changeable habitats of the ocean world, but they offer great riches. They bring great rewards but also great danger. Here, sea lions beach large tuna and moray eels crawl over land to catch their prey

Uncovering the impact that modern lives are having on ocean creatures, from albatross parents feeding their chicks discarded plastic, to mother dolphins potentially exposing their calves to pollutants through contaminated milk

The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness, far from shore and many kilometres deep. It's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide. Yet it's home to some of the biggest and most spectacular creatures on earth

Josh races to get into position with film-maker Caroline as Hurricane Willa barrels towards Sinaloa in western Mexico, while James faces an agonising decision over his own safety

Josh attempts to get inside Super Typhoon Yutu, the strongest storm of 2018, arriving in the Philippines just as the typhoon starts to bring down power lines

Joanna's Silk Road journey takes her to Iran. Throughout the country she meets people eager to share the culture and innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far beyond modern-day Iran

As Joanna's Silk Road Adventure draws to a close, she travels across the stunning yet little-known Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Starting in the Kyzl-Kum desert she explores the Silk Road citadel of Khiva, a town infamous for its history of slavery. In the capital, Tashkent, she marvels at the splendid Soviet-built Metro system and attends a high society wedding as the guest of a famous pop star

Coasts are the most changeable habitats of the ocean world, but they offer great riches. They bring great rewards but also great danger. Here, sea lions beach large tuna and moray eels crawl over land to catch their prey

Uncovering the impact that modern lives are having on ocean creatures, from albatross parents feeding their chicks discarded plastic, to mother dolphins potentially exposing their calves to pollutants through contaminated milk

The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness, far from shore and many kilometres deep. It's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide. Yet it's home to some of the biggest and most spectacular creatures on earth

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts of all; it's also one of the most diverse; with 50-degree temperatures and half a millimetre of rainfall annually

The long awaited arrival of the Great Migration brings opportunities and food in abundance but it also increases conflict as everyone of the Serengeti's families is put to the test. Lioness Kali is forced to make a difficult decision

Brian explores the latest science and takes a new look at his old films and asks how far humanity can go in their exploration of the cosmos. Brian begins in Russia's cosmonaut training facility in the outskirts of Moscow

Gregg Wallace is in Essex at an enormous cereal bar factory, which produces 400,000 fruit- and nut-packed treats a day. Gregg follows production from the arrival of two tonnes of macadamia nuts all the way through to dispatch

Ben joins a couple at the start of their new lives in the wild in a two-room derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary that they bought from the internet without ever having visited the country before

The El Chepe follows miles of spectacular scenery as it winds its way through the Copper Canyon

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

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts of all; it's also one of the most diverse; with 50-degree temperatures and half a millimetre of rainfall annually

The long awaited arrival of the Great Migration brings opportunities and food in abundance but it also increases conflict as everyone of the Serengeti's families is put to the test. Lioness Kali is forced to make a difficult decision

Brian explores the latest science and takes a new look at his old films and asks how far humanity can go in their exploration of the cosmos. Brian begins in Russia's cosmonaut training facility in the outskirts of Moscow

Gregg Wallace is in Essex at an enormous cereal bar factory, which produces 400,000 fruit- and nut-packed treats a day. Gregg follows production from the arrival of two tonnes of macadamia nuts all the way through to dispatch

Ben joins a couple at the start of their new lives in the wild in a two-room derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary that they bought from the internet without ever having visited the country before