Explore Challenges
- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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London under water : Focus
The Thames Barrier
Find out more about the Thames
Barrier, which protects over 1.2m
people from the risk of tidal flooding
in London
What is at risk if London floods?
How will we face up to the challenge of increased flooding risk in the future?