A public consultation has begun into a water recycling scheme that would see treated wastewater pumped into the River Thames ...

At 215 miles long, the River Thames is the beating heart of London. Because of its historical importance to the city, there’s ...

I'm on the Thames in London, a river which has long suffered from sewage pollution. Finally, there is now a ray of hope for this legendary river. (to Darren) Hello. Nice helmet. Thanks very much ...

I t might surprise you to know that the River Thames is considered one of the world’s cleanest rivers running through a city.What’s even more surprising is that it reached that status just 60 ...

Currently, its River Thames isn’t frozen over – but you might be wondering if that is even possible, or if it has ever happened in the past. It would certainly be a spectacular sight, ...

But the Thames didn’t hit rock bottom until 1957, when the city’s Natural History Museum declared the river “biologically dead.” Wildlife that hadn’t fled were expiring in the water.

The river Thames in London was so starved of oxygen in August 2022, due to sewage and hot weather, that it was effectively on life support, New Scientist can reveal.

Numbers of mussels in the River Thames could be at just 5% of the level they were almost 60 years ago.. Research conducted by the University of Cambridge in 2020 replicated a survey of the river from ...