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 ...

London's mighty River Thames is not immune. For the fist time at least since 1976, the source of the iconic river, near the English village of Ashton Keynes about 90 miles west of the capital, has ...

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.

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 ...