Unsanitary and deadly: The Great Stink of 1858 may foreshadow our future climate breakdown One of the smelliest summers in history has stark implications for our present climate breakdown, experts say ...

Cleaning up "the Great Stink" Salmon in the Thames? A "green province" in China? Who can we thank for these miracles? By Andrew Leonard. Published March 30, 2007 7:15PM (EDT) --Shares.

Hundreds of homes in London are flushing their toilets directly into rivers, and in some cases have been doing so for years. The problem is well known by councils and Thames Water, and has been ...

To this day, Londoners still speak of the Great Stink. Recurring cholera infections led to the dawn of the field of epidemiology, a subject in which we have all recently become amateur enthusiasts.

A cartoon by John Leech addressing the Great Stink in the July 3, 1858 issue of the London satire magazine Punch. The three figures emerging from the river represent diphtheria, ...

“The Great Stink,” written by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Margaret K. McElderry Books, August 2021), ages 4 and older, 40 pages, $16.99.

In “The Great Stink,” Clare Clark placed a story of murder against the backdrop of the sewers of Victorian London. Now, in “The Nature of Monsters,” she turns to the 18th century and a ...