Wojciech Kość
Natural meandering rivers help protect against drought and flooding, while also sustaining biodiversity.

Wojciech Kość
Natural meandering rivers help protect against drought and flooding, while also sustaining biodiversity.
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.
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Poland’s longest river, the Vistula, is approaching its lowest ever recorded level.
A deputy climate minister called the pollution from the German-owned tannery “appalling” and warned that it “cannot go unpunished”.
Over 170 municipalities in Poland have introduced restrictions on the use of water, with many rivers running dangerously low.
Karolina Baca-Pogrzelska
Poland is in a much stronger position than five years ago.