The River Thames is London’s largest public space, so why aren’t we using it? Swimmable Cities co-founder Chris Romer-Lee ...

A 5,000-year-old human bone was discovered on the banks of the River Thames in London, reported the BBC’s Harriet Orrell last month. Dating back to between 3516 and 3365 B.C.E., the femur is one ...

Since Cuming’s time, hundreds of human bones have surfaced from the Thames, most of them dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age. How they ended up there is a question that has been haunting ...

The common guppy was even spotted in the Thames in 1963. A good chunk of the species—40 percent to be exact—came from North America. What’s surprising about them, though, ...

Mudlark author Lara Maiklem scours the edge of London's River Thames looking for historical artifacts. Among her finds: Roman pottery, medieval jug handles and a 500-year-old child's shoe.

What’s Under the Thames? Almost 100 aircraft were lost in the river during World War II alone, and it’s not certain how many are still to be recovered. Rebecca Maksel. July 27, 2012.

The Thames is still flowing through London, but its starting point has moved, significantly. "Following the prolonged dry weather, the source of the Thames in Gloucestershire has dried up, ...

In 1858, sewage clogging London's Thames River caused a "Great Stink." A century later, parts of the famed waterway were declared biologically dead. But the latest report on "The State of the ...

Singer and song collector Sam Lee traces the wonders of the distinctly English chalk stream, with a journey along the largest and most famous, the River Thames. Beginning at its source in the ...

We are on the foreshore of the Thames at low tide in Fulham, right next to Fulham FC's home, Craven Cottage. The water has gone out very quickly and left behind a very dirty secret. Plastic. There ...