Featuring footage from the BBC and other natural history archives, the Fierce Earth series showcases the power of nature's fury. This episode focuses on the extremely dry climate in Chile's Atacama Desert. Viewers learn what geographical features created the desert, how residents live in the extreme climate, and why it's an excellent location for telescopes.

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Introduction: Driest: Fierce Earth --(1:37) -- Andes Mountains -- (2:18) -- Humboldt Current -- (2:26) -- Hot Equator Air -- (1:54) -- Quillagua, Chile -- (5:30) -- Crossing the Atacama Desert -- (5:32) -- Harvesting Fog -- (3:19) -- Paranal Observatory -- (4:48) -- Credits: Driest: Fierce Earth -- (Series 2) (0:59).