Wandering the embankments above the River Thames it is not unusual to see people down on the foreshore at low tide. Kneeling ...

Campaigners cleared 27,000 wet wipes from one 200m stretch of the river bank Piles of discarded wet wipes are forming large mounds along the banks of the Thames which are changing the shape of the ...

Two dolphins had to be rescued from the Thames Estuary after getting stuck in muddy waters. They were spotted in trouble near the shore at Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, at about 12:00 GMT on Monday.

In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

Vanessa Bunton is a tour guide for the nonprofit organisation Thames Explorer Trust, and she’s seen it all while mudlarking – the increasingly popular practice of scavenging in river mud.