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Carved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe’s drought has revealed

Hunger stones are a common hydrological marker in the region that date back to the pre-instrumental era

UNESCO declares world’s first 5-country biosphere reserve in ‘Amazon of Europe’

The 1-million hectare Mura-Drava-Danube is the now the largest riverine protected area in Europe

Environmental organisations decry major European navigation project

The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal intends to connect the Black, Baltic and North seas for navigation

UNITED NATIONS

Damning the Danube...

...is yet another example of monstrous short-sightedness on the part of governments bent on addressing their needs without a thought for the …

Wolf hunting banned in Slovakia

The gray wolf will be a protected species in Slovakia, eastern Europe, from June 1

Seas of hunger

Dams prevent nutrients in rivers from reaching the oceans

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations …

The Blue Danube

An international convention for protection of the Danube hopes to restore the river's ecosystem

Nightmare in Europe

The Danube river system will take several years to rid itself of the cyanide