Want to see fewer ads? .An image taken in 2008, about a decade into the concerted effort to revive the Thames, declared "biologically dead" half a century earlier.In This StoryThis piece was originally published in and appears here as part of our collaboration.the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade and transport and a dumping ground for human excretion and industrial waste. The cradle of England’s industrial heritage was quickly becoming a glorified sewer. The stench was so unbearable during the sweltering summer of 1858 that it forced some government...…Want to see fewer ads? .An image taken in 2008, about a decade into the concerted effort to revive the Thames, declared "biologically dead" half a century earlier.In This StoryThis piece was originally published in and appears here as part of our collaboration.the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade and transport and a dumping ground for human excretion and industrial waste. The cradle of England’s industrial heritage was quickly becoming a glorified sewer. The stench was so unbearable during the sweltering summer of 1858 that it forced some government...WW…