An original audio drama series from the BBC World Service, Fukushima tells the story of the 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. We lose the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

We lose the Daiichi Plant.

Then we lose Japan as we know it.

Listen to the series now by searching for Fukushima

wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

As the Earth warms, there are new frontiers to be explored and traversed.

The opening up of the Arctic Ocean, the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans,

is starting to make commercial and strategic sense.

The region has become an arena for power and for competition.

Picture the North Pole at the very top of our world.

It's not formed of land like Antarctica,

but a huge mass of sea ice,

which gets smaller in the summer

as rising temperatures cause much of the ice to melt. By 2030 during the summer months, it may be free of sea ice.

China is currently moving to take advantage of this with a series of development projects.

It is incumbent upon China to be their first to make a claim.

This is stories from the New Silk Road, the Arctic, from the BBC World Service. This is Iceland, World famous for its geothermal activity.

I'm going to tell you honestly, very clearly you don't step outside of the path because this is mud geothermal activity and the

mud may look harmless but it may have almost 100 degrees centigrade temperature and if you step on that you can get stuck and then you get boiled feet so be careful.

There are these pools of water and they look so enticing.

The yellowish color is sulfur and it's solid sulfur.

It's so beautiful though.

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