A new type of heat map was introduced in the UK and it maps out, quite literally, the heating needsof the entire country. While designed to help implement heating infrastructure like district heat ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

Over the centuries England's green and pleasant land has been the sight of some grim and bloody fighting. Factions battling over territory and the right to rule the nation have clashed the length and ...

England's sewage crisis was laid bare today by a new real-time map revealing which river sections are downstream of discharges from storm overflows. Spills into lakes, rivers and seas by water firms ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary since William Smith published his life’s work, a geological map of England and Wales, in 1815. While “Strata Smith” and his map are well-known among geologists, ...

New mapping data has shown 80% of England's peatlands to be dry and damaged. The government said the findings, shown on an open source map, presented a worrying picture, with degraded peat emitting ...

As regions go, they could hardly be more different. The South-West of England is famous for its rolling countryside, beaches and cream teas, while the West Midlands is the country's urban and ...

Workers in London and the South-east will bear the brunt of the recession, a hard-hitting report warned today. Almost two in five of jobs lost will be in the two regions (see map right and below) ...