News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

LDE Port City Future organizes an international symposium to mark 150 years of the Rotterdam-North Sea waterway. Rotterdam le 13/10/2022 The “Nieuwe Waterweg” canal linking the Rhine and the North Sea was opened in January 1872. It has widely been used and has supported for many decades the economic and industrial development of the Rhine and […]

  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 […]

  8 million tonnes of plastic are discarded into the oceans every year and 80% of this plastic waste found in the seas comes from dry land.  In the European rivers studied during the scientific mission, MicroPlastiques2019, carried out by the Fondation Tara Océan, plastics were omnipresent, already in fragmented and microplastic form. And they […]