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28:00The Fierce Earth team travel to Iceland to explore a country created by volcanoes. Dougal dives into the sea and touches the two tectonic plates of Europe and America.
28:00The team explores the threat of landslides in the UK. Leah travels to the Isle of Wight to discover why it's under the constant threat of eroding rocks. Dougal explores the biggest sinkhole in Britain.
29:00The team travel to avalanche country and the French ski town of Tignes in the Alps. Clare and Dougal go skiing in the shadow of the biggest avalanche threat in the mountains and test-out the latest survival technology.
28:00Mike, Dougal and Leah are on an epic, rain soaked, monsoon journey. The team travel the length of India tracking the monsoon - the world's biggest weather phenomenon as it passes over the country to the World's Wettest Place.
28:00Clare, Dougal, Leo and Mike discover the secrets of ice. On a bobsleigh track in the Swiss Alps, Leo learns about the slippery properties of this frozen substance, whilst Mike explores the devastating power of ice storms.
29:00In this episode the team travel 6000 miles to the country of Chile and the Atacama Desert - officially the driest place in the world. Leo skydives out of a plane to reveal why the air is so dry.
28:00It's wet-suits on for the Fierce Earth team as they hit the surf to unlock the secrets of king-sized waves and fast rising tides.
29:00Mike Theiss travels into the heart of the Boston Blizzard of February 2013. He witnesses first-hand how a major city in the US comes grinding to a halt after 36 hours of winter chaos.
29:00Fierce Earth team travel to Morocco, North Africa and to the Sahara Desert - the biggest hot desert in the world. Leo is put to the test as he finds out how to escape the deadly grip of quicksand.
29:00Fierce Earth travels to the Philippines to discover why the Islands are right in the middle of Typhoon Alley. Leah and Mike explore how typhoons create havoc for the millions of people living in the country's capital Manila.
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29:00The Fierce Earth team investigates what happens when water becomes our enemy. Mike heads to Southampton to learn all about the most important flood rescue vehicle - the hovercraft.
29:00This Fierce Earth special takes viewers on a journey to one of the world's coldest and most hostile places on the planet - the Yukon Territory in Canada.
29:00Tornadoes are rare, but there's nothing more frantic or explosive in nature. The team investigates where that awesome power comes from and what happens when it's unleashed.
29:00The Fierce Earth special team take on one of the most feared forces on the planet - the Volcano. Dougal explores the secret lava tubes of Etna and climbs Stromboli for a face-to-face encounter with an erupting volcano.
27:00At any one time it is estimated that 2000 thunderstorms are happening across the world. The team investigate what makes the thundercloud so feared and Leo faces some giant hailstones.
28:00The Fierce Earth team explore the phenomenon of the earthquake. Clare and Mike train with one of the top international rescue teams; Leo takes on a dangerous cliff climb with a very special partner.
27:00The Fierce Earth team investigate the terrifying giant waves of the tsunami. Zoe and Dougal travel to Japan to meet child survivors of the 2011 disaster and test ride the brand new tsunami escape pod.
29:00In this Fierce Earth special, Clare and Leo head to Death Valley in California which is officially the hottest place in the entire world, with record-breaking temperatures of a sizzling 57 degrees centigrade.
28:00The Fierce Earth team investigates wildfires. We travel to Colorado and meet one of the youngest female fire fighters in the US, who has tackled wildfires head on after her house and part of her neighbourhood was burnt down.
28:00The Fierce Earth team encounters a most feared event in weather; the hurricane. Stormchaser Mike takes us on a wild ride into the eye of the storm and Zoe learns how we're designing buildings to cope with their awesome force.