Ed began his journey in Gloucestershire - where the river originates. Its starting point, known as Thames Head, does not have a fixed location, but arises from a group of shifting springs near ...

The River Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics for any river in the world. Scientists have estimated that 94,000 microplastics per second flow down the river in places.

in the podcast she reveals five objects found on the Thames foreshore that tell a story about the river and the people who live on it. Here are the objects. This fragment almost looks like a ...

The "Clean Thames Manifesto" is a collaborative plan to reduce the amount of sewage and other pollutants like chemicals and plastic rubbish in the river. Three water companies operating in the ...

Television naturalist Steve Backshall has described pollution found in the River Thames as "toxic". Bangor University analysis found high levels of norovirus and E. coli in water taken near the ...

The news that two male bodies were recovered from the River Thames while the search for chemical attack suspect Abdul Ezedi was under way could easily have been overlooked. On average, 25 bodies ...

South from here sits Twinkle Park, an attractive site where people often go pond-dipping, and a statue of Russian Tsar Peter ...

“I’m using the River Thames as a vehicle to explore contemporary ritual in England today,” says photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews about her photobook Thames Log. Published by Loose Joints, the series ...