Britain's transition from water power to coal-based steam power set the stage for the 19th century Industrial Revolution, which transformed much of Europe and North America into predominantly urban ...

Water quality is still "unacceptably poor" in many British rivers, research involving academics at York has shown. The study, published in Science of The Total Environment, challenges recent claims ...

The "turnpike" toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in eighteenth-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100 travelers' diaries reveals that ...

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters Breakingviews) - There is much excited chatter that automation will unleash a Fourth Industrial Revolution, building on earlier upheavals caused by the arrival of steam power, ...

More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

It’s Wednesday, November 18, and the U.K. has released its plan for a “green industrial revolution.” There’s been talk of a U.S. “Green New Deal” and a European “Green Deal,” and now the U.K. is ...

For the first time in 230 years, Britain has completed two months without burning coal to generate electricity. The last time coal was burned at any of Britain's four coal-fired power stations was ...