Explore Challenges
- 13 OCTOBER 2010: Plastic pollution in the oceans
- 1 DECEMBER 2010: Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- 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
In The News
The world’s remaining great forests
- Source: The Guardian
20th July 2010
The Earth was once covered in ancient forests, 80% of which have been either destroyed or degraded, according to conservationists. Half of that has been in the last 30 years.
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Britons admit they just can’t live without home internet
- Source: The Guardian
- 12th July 2010
Domestic web connection joins holidays, mobile phones and fridge-freezer among necessities of modern life, Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds
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Martha Lane Fox appointed new UK Digital Champion
- Source: Race Online 2012
- 1st July 2010
As part of the Government‟s drive to increase transparency and accountability, the Prime Minister has announced that the internet entrepreneur, Martha Lane Fox, will be the new „UK Digital Champion‟.
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The hidden water we use
- Source: National Geographic
You might be suprised how much water it takes to create the products and food we consume. See how it all adds up.
full article »Brazil floods kill dozens and leave 1,000 people missing
- Source: The Guardian
- 23rd June 2010
Torrential rain devastates towns and cities in Brazil's north-east, leaving as many as 97,000 people homeless
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Amazon forest fires ‘on the rise’
- Source: BBC News
- 7th June 2010
The number of fires destroying Amazon rainforests are increasing, a study from University of Exeter Geography Department has found. A team of scientists said fires in the region could release similar amounts of carbon as deliberate deforestation.
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£2bn offshore windfarm to go ahead off north Wales
- Source: BBC News
- 4th June 2010
Construction work will begin next year on one of the largest offshore windfarms in the world, an energy firm has announced. The £2bn Gwynt y Mor windfarm will have 160 wind turbines around 10 miles off the north Wales coast near Colwyn Bay and Llandudno.
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229 countries ranked on their vulnerability to natural disasters
- Source: TravelMole
- 2nd June 2010
Natural Disasters Risk Index (NDRI) ranks 229 countries on their vulnearability to natural disasters. Bangladesh, Indonesia and Iran have been rated as the nations most at risk from extreme weather and geophysical events according to a new study ranking 229 countries on their vulnerability to natural disasters. France, Italy and USA feature in highest-rated 50.
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