News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The environmental situation in the Balkans is critical. For several years, the impacts of coal fired power plants on air quality are regularly castigated. However, atmospheric pollution is not the only factor that disturbs the life of the populations. Rivers are also victims of pollutions that jeopardise their good health and, indirectly, that of the […]

  Rivers supply essential services to society, but their exploitation by human beings has constantly fragmented them. In Europe, more than a million obstacles impede the free flow of rivers and disturb the balance of these ecosystems.    Considerable and underestimated fragmentation   The fragmentation of rivers entails modifying their ecological continuity by placing obstacles […]

Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a global health risk that may kill 10 million people by 2050 according to the UN. Rivers could play in role in increasing this risk, since antibiotic pollution in the environment is the main source of development of resistant genes in humans. The first study at international level   […]