Explore Challenges
- 7 March 2012: Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- 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
UK, Financial Crisis, consumption, nhs, pensions, Bob Geldof, ageing, skills, tidal energy, future, Credit Crunch, Copenhagen, manufacturing, oceans, Kofi Annan, computers, Slums, economy, pollution, UNAIDS
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.
click to read more »What is at risk if London floods?
How will we face up to the challenge of increased flooding risk in the future?