BBC World Service - Discovery

Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England

The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953

The Vajont Dam Disaster in Italy 1963 remains the worst dam disaster of all time

British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, or food safety scheme

Report on the deforestation occurring in developing nations of the tropical world

Examination of what climate change will mean for the world's forests

Report on how deforestation depletes, degrades and destroys the planet's ecosystems

Documentary which explores the theory of a hypothetical universe

Report on the development of gene-altered rice

Exploration into the work of organic chemists