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Imagine a sculpture made of entirely recycled items. One artist in London is working on one that will cover an entire building.
In a city with deep history, we take a look at some of London’s newest innovations and ideas for sustainability.
Pulling a plane out of the English Channel isn’t easy. When it’s a relic of World War II, it’s even harder.
You might call us invasive reporters in England, transplants from America looking for a few good stories in the UK. While we’re minding our p’s and q’s, London is dealing with an entirely different breed of North American invaders, and they’re quickly filling up the city’s largest river. We’re talking invasive planets, fish, insects, birds,…
National Geographic is headed on the road to find some stories about our planet and it’s future. This time: the UK.
Geography in the News: Shakespeare’s Geography
Posted by Neal Lineback of Maps101.com and Maps.com on February 9, 2013 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM and Maps.com SHAKESPEAREAN ENGLAND Summertime brings dozens of Shakespeare festivals to cities and towns around the United States. During the festivals, actors perform both Shakespeare’s most famous plays and some of his more obscure work. While festivals occur in states from Alabama to Utah,…
Mapping The Blitz
Posted by Michael Fry on December 7, 2012 
Bomb Sight, a year-long project to map Nazi Germany’s bombing campaign against London, is now complete. The interactive tool, based on Bomb Census Survey maps from the United Kingdom’s National Archives, depicts the location and type of bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe from Oct. 7, 1940 through June 6, 1941.
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It seems that London was host to more than Olympic athletes, as a recent study suggests the Thames River is among the world’s most invaded freshwater systems. Research published in the delightfully named journal Biological Invasions found nearly 100 invasive species living in the Thames. The researchers at Queen Mary, University of London concluded that…
Posted by News reports on comets have been dominated the past few days by NASA’s flyby yesterday morning of the comet 103P/Hartley 2 and the subsequent close-up pictures. Before the NASA craft got cozy, the comet made its closest approach by Earth on October 20, coming a mere 11 million miles (17.7 million kilometers) from our planet.…
This week the Royal Society in London is holding a two day meet-up for scientists to talk about the state of our search for extraterrestrial life. At a lecture today, astrobiologist Paul Davies of Arizona State University told the crowd that he thinks aliens already walk among us. Well, maybe not walk—more like float, or…
Building on the Hubble-Slipher smackdown from last week, a group of historians at the Royal Astronomical Society in the U.K. is aiming to give credit where it’s due to the man who drew the first maps of the moon using a telescope. Popular thought pegs Italian scientist Galileo Galilei with this feat—in fact, the International…
