Britain is in the grip of an historic heat wave. With the mercury regularly reaching into the 80 and even the 90s this summer, it's now officially the driest summer on record since the mid-1930's. The ...

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. A specialised boat was used to ...

Around 200 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade and transport and a dumping ground for human excretion and industrial waste. The cradle of England ...