Angry Planet

George heads Down Under during fire season to see if climate change is slowly causing Australia to become uninhabitable. In the Outback, drought and heat waves are becoming increasingly common. Climate change is making conditions worse, and the combination of floods, record high temperatures, and bone-dry conditions are culminating in vicious firestorms.

Climate change deniers claim volcanoes produce more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels do. George investigates this claim while revisiting the active volcano of Marum in Vanuatu. He dons a fire-suit and descends 1200 feet into the volcano.

If melting polar ice continues to raise the world’s ocean levels, the low-lying island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific will be one of the first to vanish. George visits the vanishing island, and looks back on two major ocean storms of recent years.

In 1914, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first person to navigate Brazil’s “River of Doubt.” The Angry Planet team returns to follow in his wake and investigate the changing climate in this remote part of the Amazon wilderness.

When the Fogo volcano in the Cabo Verde Islands suddenly becomes active, George rushes to investigate. He returns with stark images and tragic stories from one of the most destructive volcano eruptions in recent years.

On his first-ever expedition to Siberia, George witnesses the alarming effect of melting permafrost, visits a 12,000-year-old dog, and camps out with reindeer herders on the chilliest night of his life.