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 harsh desert environment. Viewers learn about desertification, sandstorms, desert inhabitants, mirages and quicksand.

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 01, 2015.

Introduction: Deserts: Fierce Earth --(Series 2) (1:53) -- Sahara Desert -- (3:57) -- Desertification -- (3:09) -- Sandstorms -- (2:54) -- Sandstorm Damage -- (3:05) -- Desert Living -- (4:54) -- Water in the Desert -- (2:08) -- Quicksand -- (5:30) -- Credits: Deserts: Fierce Earth -- (Series 2) (0:52).