BBC’s The Green Planet with Sir David Attenborough tackles climate change from the perspective of plants

A follow-up to The Blue Planet, five-part series fronted by Sir David Attenborough tells the climate change story by focusing on the lives of plants and trees

From deserts to rainforests it documents them using robotic cameras and time-lapse imagery to provide ‘a whole new understanding of the natural world’

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Sir David Attenborough in the Sonoran Desert in the US state of Arizona in an episode of the BBC’s The Green Planet, which tackles climate change from the perspective of plants. Photo: BBC Studios/Paul Williams

Published: 4:15pm, 6 Jan 2022

Can the BBC save the world?

Will cuddly old Sir David Attenborough have the patience to show us, yet again, the errors of our ways by going once more unto the breach – and onto the beach, and through the rainforest and across the desert – to fill the frightening gaps in our knowledge of the natural world?

As we blithely destroy the ecosystems essential for the survival of everything, the BBC has come up with a worthy successor to The Blue Planet and its stablemates: The Green Planet, a five-part wildlife series presented from the perspective of plants.

Four years in the making and filmed in 27 countries, its globe-spanning episodes are titled Tropical, Waterworld, Seasonal, Human and Deserts.

Indicating the series’ importance, the first instalment, Tropical, was shown at the opening of the recent Cop26 in Glasgow, where the real stars of the intensifying climate-change battle received due recognition.