The annual five-day census of swans belonging to King Charles III — known as Swan Upping — began Monday on the River Thames ...

Famed for its summer regatta, this riverside market town in south Oxfordshire has independent distilleries, cosy gastropubs ...

Every year, a team of Swan Uppers is tasked with finding the swans on a stretch of the Thames. It's pageantry with a purpose.

The River Thames is London’s largest public space, so why aren’t we using it? Swimmable Cities co-founder Chris Romer-Lee ...

Swan Upping, King Charles' five-day event that takes over the River Thames, is a nearly thousand-year old British tradition.

Numbers of mussels in the River Thames could be at just 5% of the level they were almost 60 years ago. Research conducted by the University of Cambridge in 2020 replicated a survey of the river from ...

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 ...

The head of England’s River Thames dried up Thursday for the first time ever as record heat and droughts take their toll on major rivers and bodies of water around the world. Water levels in ...

With the river and its estuary now home to over 100 species of fish, two species of seals and even sharks and seahorses, Anna Cucknell, Thames project manager at the London Zoological Society ...

The River Thames has a storied history. Stretching 215 miles from Kemble to Southend, it is the longest river in England. Archaeological evidence suggests that humans were living along its shores in ...

Mudlark author Lara Maiklem scours the edge of London's River Thames looking for historical artifacts. Among her finds: Roman pottery, medieval jug handles and a 500-year-old child's shoe.