Engineers and other Thames Barrier staff members are planning to strike over a long-standing salary dispute. As part of their protest, the barrier workers have specifically chosen dates during ...

Here we explain what it does, how it works, and what would happen without it The enormous Thames Barrier was built at a cost of £1.6bn - but how does it work? Here we explain what it does ...

Plans to build a 10-mile barrier along the Thames to protect London from flooding are being considered. The embankment, from Sheerness in Kent to Southend in Essex, would contain gates to allow water ...

Some of the scenes you worked on involved recreating the Thames Barrier – how do you do that? Was a trip to London involved? We used a photogrammetry model as a base, which we created with plates shot ...

Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of London’s Thames Barrier, inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on May 8, 1984, steadfastly protecting the capital for over four decades. The barrier has ...

It's been protecting London from costly and potentially deadly flooding since 1984. But as the Thames Barrier celebrates its 40th anniversary, scientists have warned that the £535 million ...

When the Thames Barrier was built as an elegant stainless steel-capped bulwark to protect Londoners from flooding in the 1980s, it was designed with additional capacity just in case melting glacie ...

Flood defence walls through London will need to be half a metre higher in the future to protect against climate change, officials said as they marked the 40th anniversary of the Thames Barrier.

Emperor Naruhito of Japan will start his U.K. trip by visiting the Thames Barrier. The visit aims to bolster U.K.-Japan relations as Britain seeks to amplify its influence in the Indo-Pacific.