My Insider"There's an island the size of two tennis courts, and I've been and stood on it — it's near Hammersmith Bridge in the Thames, and it's a meter deep or more in places of just wet wipes ...

The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery has been re-certified under the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) standard.

“Right now, if the stretch of the Thames used for the Boat Race were an official bathing site it would be graded poor, the lowest possible rating,” said River Action’s Head of Communities ...

Swan numbers have begun to recover on the Thames, after a couple of years of worrying decline, according to an annual royal survey of swans. A five-day search along the Thames, completed on Friday, ...

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.