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
Virtual Water
The Aral Sea
Read about the environmental impacts of over use of water resources in the Aral Sea
Importing goods, exporting drought? / 60 Seconds / The Aral Sea
As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
The rivers that made Iraq's dry soil so fertile are drying up because the supply of water, which once flowed south into Iraq from Turkey, Syria and Iran, is now held back by dams and used for irrigation. On the Euphrates alone, Turkey has five large dams upriver from Iraq, and Syria has two.
Importing goods, exporting drought? / In The News / As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
People may have to go vegetarian to save planet says Lord Stern
Meat wastes water, creates greenhouse gases and could become as socially unacceptable as drink-driving
Importing goods, exporting drought? / In The News / People may have to go vegetarian to save planet says Lord Stern