Great Natural Wonders & Endangered Places

Great Natural Wonders. Explore some of the world's Great Natural Wonders which are increasingly under
pressure from global warming population increase and commercial activity. Erupting volcanoes are some
of the most dramatic sights of the natural world as Megan McCormick discovers on her trips to Java and
Hawaii. Ian Wright learns about the consequences of climate change in the Arctic whilst Justine Shapiro hikes
one of the world's most spectacular glaciers the Perito Moreno in Patagonia

Endangered Places. Explore some of our most Endangered Places and ask what we can all do to help the
world we live in. Justine Shapiro Ian Wright and other intrepid presenters take us from the beautiful city
of Venice slowly sinking for the past 1000 years to a glacier melting into the sea in Antarctica and to the
Nevada Desert where A bombs were tested in the 1950s. Then travel to the ancient Turkish town of Hasankeyf
before it is sunk under the River Tigris as part of plans for a new dam and see the impact of the tourism
invasion every year in Algarve.