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- 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
Thames Gateway
The Thames Barrier
Find out more about the Thames Barrier, which protects over 1.2m people from the risk of tidal flooding in London.
London under water / Focus / The Thames Barrier
The Thames Gateway
Europe’s largest regeneration project, stretching 40 miles along the Thames Estuary
Concreting the countryside / Focus / The Thames Gateway
Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures
Rising sea levels pose a far bigger eco threat than previously thought. This week's climate change conference in Copenhagen will sound an alarm over new floodings - enough to swamp Bangladesh, Florida, the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary
London under water / In The News / Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures
Sea rise ‘to exceed projections’
The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested.
London under water / In The News / Sea rise ‘to exceed projections’