Angry Planet

Early September of 2008 saw radical imagery on the hurricane maps of the Atlantic four named tropical storms, swirling in a train across the ocean. Angry Planet was there as three of them made landfall as hurricanes in the US. He and his team filmed G

Possibly the home of the deadly Marburg virus, Kitum Cave is high on Mount Elgon straddling the Kenya-Uganda border. The deep, waterfall-shrouded cave has been carved out over millennia by elephants in search of salt. When host George Kourounis gets bitte

No-one creates eco-disasters on quite the scale of the former Soviet Union. In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has seen its waters diverted, so that it has shrunk to 1/6 its previous size. In Crimea, a moun

Costa Rica is a tiny country jammed with diversity and adventure. George explores the volcanoes of Costa Rica with an international team of scientists, rafts down white water rivers in full flood, rappels down raging waterfalls, and handles some of deadli

George returns to the Fin Del Mundo at the southern tip of Argentina, this time to sail on a Russian icebreaker to Antarctica. After braving the stormy Drake passage, he explores volcanic Deception Island, camps out in the Antarctic snow, and paddles a

Filming the volcanoes, mud pools and geysers in the geothermic wonderland of New Zealands north island, George learns that a new island is being created by an undersea volcano 1000 miles north in Tonga. Determined to be among the first to see this newes

George and his storm chase team head straight into the bears cage, looking to get beat up by the biggest, baddest hailstones that Texas and Oklahoma can throw at them. They find it and their storm chasing vehicles dont look too pretty after coming t

We break the bounds of earth, looking up in the sky and high into space, and examining the difficulties of exploring this most challenging environment. George experiences extremes of aviation and space trainingaboard a Czech-built Albatross fighter jet,

George's exploration of the undersea world begins on a submarine in Grand Cayman Island. He then is one of the first civilians to be taken to deep pressure inside the Canadian Armed Forces experimental diving unit, then heads west to dive with undersea e

In 2000, a remarkable find was made in Chihuahua, Mexico, of a spectacular cave filled with giant crystals, some over 12 meters long. But it is a intensely difficult spot to explore with temperatures over 50 degrees C and humidity approaching 100%. Geor

Methane gas rising from the huge Catatumbo swamps of Venezuela mixing with cold air from the Andes creates an almost perpetual lightning storm over South Americas largest lake. George explores this unique phenomenon, takes an 84 km ride in a dugout canoe