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Living on this restless earth we are left in no doubt that when it comes to displays of sheer power nature has the upper hand. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, ice – we’ve no answer to any of them and little chance of even predicting their arrival. Yet although these terrifying forces have caused death and destruction throughout history they are part of a vital process that has been in train since the very birth of our planet. Without it there would be no landscape and no life. It’s the process that created the land and the sea and that even now shapes and re-shapes the world around us, renewing and replenishing even as it destroys. These films tell the story of that process and the extremes of creative, yet deadly, energy that are released - and the extraordinary, beautiful and dramatic landscapes that are the result. We’ll go to the heart of the creative forces to look into volcanoes, watch the land quaking and the floods raging. And we’ll visit the places that overwhelm us with their scale, beauty and atmosphere – the biggest, the deepest, the most bizarre and most awe-inspiring places on planet earth – and learn their secret: nature’s power, revealed.

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