Plans for flood defences along the River Thames have raised environmental concerns among campaigners. A series of flood walls, embankments and temporary flood barriers have been proposed to reduce ...

One stark difference is the looming Barking Flood Barrier which now stands above the Barking Creek, where the River Roding meets the Thames. The barrier was designed and built between 1979 and ...

But a new ranking lists the capital’s most underrated tourist attractions, and it’s likely to leave tourists and locals a little confused. With fewer than 10,000 visitors each year, the Thames Barrier ...

THE note on the Thames flood of 1928 (NATURE ... but they have also shown how river pollution must rapidly increase as fields get replaced by residential quarters with drainage systems far ...

A map proposing what London's transport network could look like in 70 years has been revealed, with the future of some stations looking uncertain. The illustration shows the River Thames expanding to ...

The decision to drop a scheme to improve flood defences in the Thames Valley has been criticised by a local authority. The Environment Agency (EA) said the benefits of its Thames Valley flood ...

Find out more at the Young Reporter website. In 2014 1,000 homes were flooded from the River Thames, The Thames Flood Defence scheme aims to prevent this from happening by creating a channel ...

A drying Thames river basin in the UK would still face five times the current risk of flooding by 2080, a recent assessment of the effects of climate change has found. A drying Thames river basin in ...