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- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- 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
In The News
Digitally deprived kids face bleak future
- Source: WebUser.co.uk
29th April 2010
Children in the UK without access to the internet will earn less money and become a burden to the country, according to a new report.
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Water shortages the biggest barrier to increasing production
- Source: The Ecologist
- 29th April 2010
The real issue in food production is not whether we should go for intensive agriculture, GM crops or organic but future water availability, says an environmental think-tank
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Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti Earthquake
- Source: Wired Magaziner
- 19th April 2010
Assessing lessons learnt from past natural disasters
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100 days of progress in Haiti since earthquake
- Source: BBC Radio 4
- 22nd April 2010
Radio 4 Today Programme interview on 100 days of progress since the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010
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3 Royal Navy ships drafted to help stranded Britons in Europe as UK airspace remains closed
- Source: BBC News
- 19th April 2010
Three Royal Navy ships will be drafted to help return Britons stranded abroad as UK airspace remains restricted.
The UK's emergency committee Cobra met to discuss options in addressing travel chaos caused by a volcanic ash cloud and will hold more discussions later.
UK water use ‘worsening global crisis’
- Source: BBC News
- 19th April 2010
The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported to developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says. The report, focusing on the UK, says two-thirds of the water used to make UK imports is used outside its borders.
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China earthquake kills hundreds in Qinghai
- Source: BBC News
- 14th April 2010
At least 300 people have died and thousands are feared injured after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province, officials say.
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Rutland Telecom offers villagers fast broadband
- Source: BBC News
- 14th April 2010
A UK village which raised £37,000 to set up its own network offering 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT could not deliver has been launched.
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