Monday, May 06, 2024

rivers restored

Today's issue of Current Biology is a special theme issue on ecosystem restoration with lots of articles on various kinds of ecosystems from rescued coral reefs to land rehabilitated after mining, and general aspects from ecology to finance. My modest contribution is a feature about restoration of rivers, from the reinvention of what was once Europe's dirtiest river (not all that far from where I went to school, so this revolutionary change still boggles my mind) to the removal of barriers in Europe and North America:

Rivers revival

Current Biology Volume 34, Issue 9, 6 May 2024, Pages R360-R362

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See also my new Mastodon thread where I will highlight all this year's CB features.

Last year's thread is here .

The river Emscher, which served as an open sewer for the entire 20th century, has been cleaned up in a 30-year restoration project. (Photo: Eselsmann™, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 Deed).)

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