LEARNING ZONE BROADBAND

Duration: 03:30

The development and effects of category five hurricane Mitch.

Duration: 01:56

Discussion of the environment in The Odyssey as representative of the relationship between Odysseus and Poseidon.

Duration: 02:12

Grace Nichols introduces and reads aloud her poem 'Stormman'.

Duration: 3:21

In 1953, a powerful storm surge affected sections of the East coast of Britain. Residents of Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary were badly affected by coastal flooding.

Duration: 05:32

Physicist Helen Czerski goes to Mexico to show how hurricanes are formed. She shows how they are produced by Earth's rotation and an effect called the “coriolis”.

Duration: 11:31

Drama in which Grace Darling tells the story of her life as a lighthouse keeper's daughter, and describes the night she and her father rowed out in their tiny boat to save nine sailors from drowning.

Duration: 04:05

A look at how Montreal copes with the extremes of winter weather, both below ground and above ground.

Duration: 07:34

By going to a real tornado in the USA, Helen Czerski explains how tornados are formed. She identifies some impacts of Spring time storms, such as flooding and dust storms.

Duration: 05:12

An ancient chestnut tree takes pity on an elderly couple and gives them money. The couple's fortunes change when they buy an extraordinary fish, which leads sailors to safety in a storm.

Duration: 4:55

The history of weather forecasting and early satellite programmes is told using archive film. The science of weather forecasting has been transformed by the introduction of satellite technology.

Duration: 07:05

Mini-drama about the Tay Bridge Disaster in 1879. The newly-built bridge over the River Tay was the longest in the world, but it collapsed during a storm, resulting in the deaths of all passengers on board a train that was crossing it at the time.

Duration: 04:36

Why are camels good at living in the desert? Animation explaining how camels are adapted to live in the desert environment.