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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

This month's best paperbacks: David Szalay, Han Kang and more

Rivers worldwide face crisis from damming, pollution, and degradation, while Ecuador pioneered legislation recognizing water's essential role in all life, prompting renewed examination of rivers' sentience and humanity's interconnection with nature.
fromwww.dw.com
4 months ago

German, Polish activists fight to get the Oder River clean DW 11/11/2025

Sudden heavy rainfall means that the Oder regularly breaches its banks, causing flooding. Conversely, in periods of prolonged heat, water levels can fall sharply, threatening farmers, shipping and wildlife. In the summer of 2022, the river suffered its greatest ecological disaster in decades: a mass fish die-off triggered by upstream pollution. At the time, the Bartels, fishers, locals and activists on both sides of the border rolled up their sleeves and shoveled about 360 tons of dead fish and other creatures out of the water.
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