Environmental news desk
We turn authoritative environmental event data into clear, checked map and data packages for journalists and newsrooms. The desk is built for more than one kind of event. Its first coverage is current flood warnings in England.
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Only an editor-approved revision appears in this public list. A source change creates a new draft; it never replaces an approved release without review.
Published event packages
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Coverage
The first live source is the Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. It does not provide complete coverage of the UK.
Coverage status will appear when the desk service responds.
What the first flood packages show
The map shows the Environment Agency's official flood-warning area. It is not a map of observed floodwater. Its approximate area describes that boundary, not the area flooded. The first release does not estimate casualties, displacement, damage or people affected.
Each approved package includes the source warning, its update time and licence, a geospatial GeoJSON, CSV, editable vector map (SVG), print PDF, PNG, a short factual briefing and a ZIP containing the files and provenance. The source credit is carried into the map and package.
Environment Agency data are supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution: “This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta).”