Angry Planet - Season 3

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 bitten by one of the bats…well, you'll have to see the show to find out what happens.

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 mountain has been carved into a James Bond-ish submarine base. In northern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear site has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland.

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 deadliest snakes this tropical country has to offer.

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 kayak through icebergs calved off the melting glaciers.

George links up with two experienced polar adventurers to explore the frigid Canadian arctic in the depths of winter. The team first uses skis to cross the fractured sea ice of Frobisher Bay, then dog teams to head north through the spectacular Auyuittuq Mountains.

Filming the volcanoes, mud pools and geysers in the geothermic wonderland of New Zealand's 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 "newest land on earth", he heads for the remote island by plane and boat, after various nautical mishaps, George ends up, bedraggled and clad in nothing but underwear and a lifejacket, honored to be one of the very first to explore this brand new island.

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 don't look too pretty after coming through these massive storms.

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 training–aboard a Czech-built Albatross fighter jet, on a tiny hang glider, inside the Zero-G plane, simulating zero gravity by diving from 30,000 feet in giant parabolas, and in stomach-churning spinning centrifuges producing 6 G's of force.

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 explorers Chris Harvey-Clark and Phil Nuyyton and to investigate the newly discovered "Black Smoker" deep sea vents.