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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 ...
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.
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 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.