The Thames Barrier was designed primarily to protect London from tidal floods, but now closes frequently to prevent fluvial flooding, which is when a river bursts its banks due to excess rainfall.

London's flood defences must be strengthened significantly ... climate change sufficiently seriously, said the existing Thames Barrier will need to be adapted and probably supplemented with ...

Steve Pelham said his property flooded with sewage from the sewage treatment plant Thames Water says it is hopeful a short-term solution to sewage that has flooded Horley residents' properties ...

93% of London’s flood defences will need to be upgraded London is protected from flooding by the Thames Barrier. But Professor Emma Howard Boyd, author of the London Climate Resilience Review ...

But before the pomp and circumstance begins, Naruhito will visit The Thames Barrier, a series of retractable steel gates that protect London from flooding while allowing ships to continue ...

flooding (“London is drowning / I live by the river”, later addressed by the construction of the Thames barrier), and state repression. Yet for all its doom and gloom, the song has slowly grow ...

While building a tidal barrier isn’t simple ... incentivising groups of homeowners to collaborate on reducing their flood risk in exchange for continued coverage. Mortgage lenders — who ...

The flooding -- the worst to hit western England ... that 90 people had been evacuated from their homes early Wednesday. Thames Valley Police said about 250 homes had been contacted and residents ...