Thames Water has mapped its discharges in near real time. But we still need data on the volume of sewage dumped in rivers.
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The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.
A new survey has revealed an alarming deterioration in the health of the River Thames ecosystem – but some of the recorded changes may be the result of a cleaner river.
Cleaning and reoxygenating the river Thames has helped its biodiversity surge, but there’s still more to be done to make it healthy.
New research published in the journal Nature reveals that more than 1.2 million flow barriers exist on European rivers and that approximately 10% are obsolete.
It’s not just the ocean we need to worry about – plastic is accumulating in the world’s rivers, too.
As climate extremes mount, let’s reflect on Victorian London’s ‘Great Stink’ sewage crisis - when things finally became so bad authorities were forced to accept evidence, reject sceptics, and act.
Climate change plus population growth means the city has to act soon.
Although some experts still disagree about the cause of Prince Albert’s untimely demise, the most likely culprit seems to be the bacterium Salmonella typhi.
It didn’t turn out well for the whale who went to Westminster, but others have made a happy home in British waters.
London’s Victorian sewerage system is creaking and in dire need of renewal. The proposed solution: a 25km “super-sewer”, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, running from west to east across the capital at an estimated…
The flooding of the Thames and Severn rivers over the past week has brought the misery of being flooded to many more people beyond the sodden Somerset Levels. Such a prolonged period of rainfall – the…
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Risk, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Professor of Economic Geography, The Open University
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Professor of Economic Geography, The Open University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Earth Science, Royal Holloway University of London
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Honorary Professor at Bangor University; Director of Sea Watch Foundation, Bangor University
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Manchester
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PhD Researcher in Aquatic Pollution, Royal Holloway University of London
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UNESCO Chair River Culture/Fleuves et Patrimoine, Université de Tours
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Senior Lecturer in Aquatic Ecology, University of Hertfordshire
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PhD Researcher, University of Cambridge
