Future-proofing our cities against record-breaking temperatures
This summer has beaten temperature records. Throughout July, Europe sweltered in baking heat. Paris hit 42 degrees centigrade, Berlin 40 and London 39. It is projected that at current rates of clima...
1 Aug 201921min
Can Oman's carbon capturing rocks help save the Earth?
Around the world, many governments are starting to take action about carbon emissions, looking at ways to cut greenhouse gases produced each year that are warming up our planet. But action is slow, th...
25 Jul 201919min
Ghost ships: how Iran avoids US oil sanctions
At around 2 am on July 4, the Panamanian flagged Iranian tanker Grace 1 was boarded by British Royal Marines off the coast of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean. The Marines from 42 Command...
17 Jul 201917min
The Minnesota model for fighting ISIS in the US
In Northern Syria tens of thousands of women and children are now living in squalid, overcrowded camps. Thousands more military aged men have been corralled into Kurdish jails. Hundreds of them had le...
11 Jul 201927min
Locusts: battling the great plague
The first written records of locust swarms are over 3 millennia old. Today, international organisations work to prevent the formation of these swarms that devour their own body weight in food every da...
4 Jul 201926min
Iraq could face another summer of bloodshed
Hundreds of protesters converged on the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra last week. Demonstrators across the province are calling for structural change to fix rampant corruption, a stagna...
27 Jun 201923min
Tanker attacks straight from Iran’s playbook
On June 13th, two more tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, just over a month after four vessels off the coast of the Emirate port at Fujairah. The USA blames Iran for the attacks and has sent o...
21 Jun 201918min
Life in Afghanistan during America's longest war
On October 7, 2001 US forces invaded Afghanistan in response to the devastating 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda from bases in the Afghan mountains. Although this drove the Taliban from power in a matter of d...
13 Jun 201930min
