As a result, the Thames swiftly turned into a giant cesspool. "In the space of about thirty-five years, the Thames had been transformed from a fishing ground teeming with salmon to one of the most ...

The River Thames is making a comeback. Declared "biologically dead" in 1957 because of years of pollution, the 205-mile long river is again home to seals, seahorses and certain kinds of birds ...

“There are many European maps that show a variety of names, and I have attached one such map from 1630 that shows the name as the Mohegan-Pequot River, as just one example.” ...

The average Londoner might be shocked to hear that, over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have been discovered in the River Thames. As new research shows, a sizable portion of ...

Action was swift. "Transport for London (TfL) today announced that it has listened to Londoners and would be reinstating the River Thames on the world-famous Tube map," a statement read on Thursday.

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 ...

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.

London's Thames River, Once 'Biologically Dead,' Is Now Home to Venomous Sharks, Report Finds A report from the Zoological Society of London revealed that the Thames river — which was previously ...