Changing Planet

Steve Backshall travels to the Maldives, an area facing significant challenges because of climate change. In Iceland, Chris Packham learns more about the effects of global warming as local sea temperatures rise. Ella Al-Shamahi visits Cambodia in Southeast Asia, an area experiencing increasing economic growth. However, this expansion is putting massive pressure on natural resources.

Liz Bonnin travels to California to learn about the increasingly invasive wildfires and visits the Pacific coast where warming seas have brought with them a new resident, great white sharks. Ade Adepitan travels to Kenya to look at the effects rising temperatures are having on the land. Gordon Buchanan discovers a pioneering project in Brazil that is trying to save an iconic predator: the jaguar.

Steve Backshall visits the Maldives, a country facing significant climate challenges. He finds these challenges are galvanizing the science community. Liz Bonnin returns to California to investigate some surprising solutions for the onslaught of wildfires. Chris Packham is in Greenland to learn more about the effects of global warming and the rate at which snow and ice are melting in the Arctic.

Gordon Buchanan returns to Brazil and revisits a pioneering project aimed at saving the jaguar and discovers the importance of a healthy ecosystem. Ella Al-Shamahi heads to Cambodia and discovers the reality of our planet's most exploited resource after water: sand. Ade Adepitan returns to Kenya to report on the devastating effect of rising temperatures and failed rains.