BBC Earth

Joanna returns to her birthplace, India, in search of a kitchen cupboard staple once known as 'black gold'. Starting in the majestic ancient city of Hampi, she's invited to a dazzling Hindu festival.

Michael takes part in an exercise to hoist the mainsail of an 80-metre long tall ship.

Griff Rhys Jones journey heads down New Zealand's back roads sees him travel from Auckland to the Coromandel, on to Taupo and finally Wellington.

Steve Backshall is in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman, in search of some of the brainiest, most intelligent hunters our planet has ever seen, as well as a shark species we have never seen before.

Steve Backshall is in the urban jungle in Chile looking for animals that thrive downtown. Chile is boarded on the west by the pacific ocean. Sea birds and sea lions thrive close to the shore.

Joanna returns to her birthplace, India, in search of a kitchen cupboard staple once known as 'black gold'. Starting in the majestic ancient city of Hampi, she's invited to a dazzling Hindu festival.

Cameras in space show that Earth is changing rapidly. Cities sprawl while forests and glaciers shrink. But in Tanzania locals have regenerated the landscape to save chimpanzees.

In northern Guangdong, majestic mountain ranges are home to a dazzling array of wildlife; Silver Pheasants, Chinese Pangolins, Black Kites, Chinese Giant Salamanders, and a new species of cave gecko.

Michael takes part in an exercise to hoist the mainsail of an 80-metre long tall ship.

Ryan continues the mammoth trek that began in Liechtenstein, meeting a fascinating collection of characters along their path, as they draw ever closer to their goal of arriving in Montreux.

Tour a building that once fuelled the Victorian era but is now a busy retail complex, then eye a Viennese gasometer that has become a shining example of communal living.

Griff Rhys Jones journey heads down New Zealand's back roads sees him travel from Auckland to the Coromandel, on to Taupo and finally Wellington.

In northern Guangdong, majestic mountain ranges are home to a dazzling array of wildlife; Silver Pheasants, Chinese Pangolins, Black Kites, Chinese Giant Salamanders, and a new species of cave gecko.

Ryan continues the mammoth trek that began in Liechtenstein, meeting a fascinating collection of characters along their path, as they draw ever closer to their goal of arriving in Montreux.

Steve Backshall is in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman, in search of some of the brainiest, most intelligent hunters our planet has ever seen, as well as a shark species we have never seen before.

Steve Backshall is in the urban jungle in Chile looking for animals that thrive downtown. Chile is boarded on the west by the pacific ocean. Sea birds and sea lions thrive close to the shore.

Tour a building that once fuelled the Victorian era but is now a busy retail complex, then eye a Viennese gasometer that has become a shining example of communal living.

In Tennessee, a river breaks its banks. In Canada a Tornado rips through a construction site. And in Papua New Guinea, a rain flooded river raises the danger levels.

Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter gatherers of the Kalahari before heading to the oasis of the Okavango Delta.