Environment

Our environment footage reveals both the awesome power of nature and its fragility in the face of our hunger for its resources. Our stunning videos cover a range of topics including:

Agriculture and livestock

Aurora Borealis

Climate change

Clouds and atmosphere

Earth observation

Earth's structure

Earthquakes and tsunami

Erosion and landforms

Extreme weather

Forests and forestry

Geology

Green energy

Human impact

Hurricanes and tornadoes

Ice caps and glaciers

Mountains

Pollution

Seas and oceans

Storms and lightning

Volcanoes and geothermal activity

Wild landscapes

Amazing Weather Footage

This collection of weather clips is from new contributor WeatherVideoHD. Their ultra-high speed motion clips shows how lightning bolts form, as well as capturing some rare and never-before-filmed types of lightning in the high atmosphere. Closer to Earth and at the other end of the scale, their timelapse footage reveals the large-scale patterns that drive cloud formation and weather events, and shows how chance alignments of clouds, winds and sun can produce some dazzling optical effects.

Environment Showreel

Science Photo Library has environment footage clips that you can view and download here. Find out more information about our stock videos. You can also download the showreel to your computer (H.264, Quicktime 7 required, 20.9 MB).

Landscapes over Time

The environment around us provides a wealth of material for our footage collection. Our landscapes showreel includes environment videos and timelapses.