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A ZSL-led report previously revealed that although the Thames was declared "biologically dead" in1957, conservation efforts had led to it once again becoming home to a wide variety of British ...
Just over 60 years after it was declared "biologically dead," England's River Thames had been hailed as an environmental success. Mammals like porpoises, seals and over 100 species of fish could ...
Ecological death. Ecological death is the inability of an organism to function in an ecological context, leading to death. [1] This term can be used in many fields of biology to describe any species. In the context of aquatic toxicology, a toxic chemical, or toxicant, directly affects an aquatic organism but does not immediately kill it ...
Ancestral Thames. The Ancestral Thames is the geologically ancient precursor to the present day River Thames. The river has its origins in the emergence of Britain from a Cretaceous sea over 60 million years ago. Parts of the river's course were profoundly modified by the Anglian (or Elsterian) glaciation some 450,000 years ago.
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Thames Head in flood in March 2020. Thames Head is a group of seasonal springs [1][2][3][4][5] that arise near the village of Coates in the Cotswolds, about three miles south-west of the town of Cirencester, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The spring water comes from the limestone aquifers of the Cotswolds.
August 5, 2024 at 11:51 PM. A dolphin has been found dead on the bank of the Thames in west London, days after one was spotted in the river last week. On Thursday, a dolphin nicknamed Jo Jo was ...
The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures cannot survive (except for some specialized bacteria)—have grown in the past half-century. [1] Dead zones are hypoxic (low- oxygen) areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.