Wojciech Kość
Improved infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and better warning systems will all be part of the answer.

Wojciech Kość
Improved infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and better warning systems will all be part of the answer.
Aleks Szczerbiak
The government managed to emerge relatively unscathed politically from its most serious “stress test” yet.
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The deputy minister suggested that Germany is exploiting the crisis to hinder planned Polish investments in the river.
“The fate of Polish transport companies depends on this issue,” the industry warned the government in a letter.
Carlsberg is among those to warn that it may have to significantly reduce or even stop production in Poland.
An additional 13.7 billion zloty (€2.87 billion) will be transferred to local authorities to fund energy efficiency and other investments.
Some 282 such cases have been recorded on the Oder river, where over 100 tonnes of dead fish have washed up amid an ongoing environmental crisis.
“This is not just an environmental disaster, it is a disaster of the Polish state,” says an activist.
The Polish province where the Oder flows into the Baltic Sea has reported a further “deterioration”, with new cases of fish die-offs.
The algae attack the gills of fish, causing bleeding and suffocation and making them lose their bearings.
The ban on fishing is causing businesses and fisherman losses of thousands of zloty every day.
Wojciech Kość
Over 80 tonnes of dead fish have so far been found.
Over three years, the auditor found 5.3 million cubic metres of water wasted at the sampled facilities, at an estimated cost of 21 million zloty.
Less than 100 adult Bali starlings are estimated to exist in the wild.