A warmer planet creates drier conditions and increasing lightning activity, causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like "firenadoes"; megastorm events occur in California and Alberta, Canada.
Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels which are intensifying hurricanes. Some experts believe we should add a Category six to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.
Hurricane Florence causes biblical-level flooding in North Carolina; a magnitude seven earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska; a colossal wave swamps a surfer in Nazaré, Portugal.
Wildfires devastate the seaside village of Mati in Greece; monster hail pummels tourists and zoo animals in Colorado; hikers in Turkey fight for survival after they're stranded by a flash flood; a tornado rips off roofs and catapults cars in Canada.
Hurricane Michael rips across the Florida panhandle, trapping a storm chaser; the UK coast guard battles gale force winds to save fishermen stranded on the hull of their capsized trawler; an adventurer suffers extreme heat stroke in the Gobi Desert.
As the deadliest wildfire in Californian history tears across the state, one man battles the flames in a bid to save his home; a tornado tears apart a woman's home in Arkansas; in Uruguay, a helicopter rescue team tries to reach a trapped canoeist.
A twister traps teachers and pupils at an American school; wildfires rip across the moors in the north of England; in Argentina, a trek nearly ends in tragedy for a group of hikers; in Africa, a man is on a mission to descend into a volcano.