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Earth's vital rivers captured in stunning drone and satellite images

Earth's vital rivers captured in stunning drone and satellite images

6 April 2022

The world's rivers and their modern challenges are captured in dramatic photographs drawn from River, a new nature documentary that highlights the scale and intricacy of Earth's life-giving arteries


Cow review: A moving and uncomfortable cow's-eye-view of farming

Cow review: A moving and uncomfortable cow's-eye-view of farming

30 March 2022

Andrea Arnold’s documentary debut, featuring a loveable dairy cow, prompts difficult questions about raising animals entirely for human benefit


Programme Name: The Green Planet - TX: n/a - Episode: Deserts (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: *NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01HRS, THURSDAY 16TH DECEMBER, 2021* Coyote tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata), Utah, United States. When a tobacco leaf is attacked by a hornworm caterpillar (Manduca sexta) it produces nicotine. This toxin slows the caterpillars down but it also causes them to release a distinctive scent. The odour is detected by predators, including whiptail lizards, that protect the tobacco by eating the caterpillars. - (C) BBC Studios - Photographer: Paul Williams

The Green Planet review: Plants as you have never seen them before

5 January 2022

David Attenborough's latest BBC blockbuster, The Green Planet, reveals the surprisingly dramatic lives of plants


Animal review: Netflix's immersive journey into nature is a must-see

Animal review: Netflix's immersive journey into nature is a must-see

24 November 2021

Breathtaking footage and celebrity narrators make Animal a rare treat, says Gregory Wakeman


Phil Jones in The Trick

The Trick review: How the Climategate scandal rocked the world

18 October 2021

The Trick on the BBC is a dramatisation of the Climategate scandal, when researchers were wrongly accused of faking evidence of global warming. The film is a correction of the record and evidence that it isn't too late to make up for lost time


Fathom review: What happens when humans try to talk to whales

Fathom review: What happens when humans try to talk to whales

23 June 2021

Documentary Fathom on Apple TV+ tracks two biologists as they study how humpback whales talk to each other and try to get involved in the conversation


David Attenborough pictured in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Breaking Boundaries review: Attenborough on climate change facts

2 June 2021

Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a deep-dive into the nine natural processes upon which all life on Earth depends, featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockström


Plant Heist review: Succulent stealing is a big money game

Plant Heist review: Succulent stealing is a big money game

21 April 2021

There is a mysterious black market for succulents poached from the California coast. A fascinating documentary follows the people trying to put an end to it


The Hunt for Planet B review: Tracking the James Webb Space Telescope

The Hunt for Planet B review: Tracking the James Webb Space Telescope

24 March 2021

With NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finally in sight, a new documentary charts its history and talks to leading scientists with a passion for the exoplanets and other worlds it may find


A caged seal waits to be released back into the sea

From the Wild Sea review: Inside the fight to save the ocean's mammals

5 March 2021

As marine life pays the price for ecosystems wrecked by humans and climate change, attempts to save some mammals makes troubling viewing in a striking debut documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival


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