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Inadequate Solid Waste Management Threatens River Ecosystems!
Inadequate solid waste management represents one of the most serious threats to river ecosystems.

The uncontrolled disposal of solid waste from households, commercial operations and industries, or its direct

What was discussed in Istanbul on May 6–9?

At the PURE Rivers project’s kick-off meeting, academics, provincial governorate and municipal officials, and environmental experts from Türkiye, Greece and Georgia came together in Istanbul.

📍 What happened that day?
It was

Three countries. One shared mission: protecting the Black Sea.
In our previous post, we shared that the Black Sea is the world’s largest semi-enclosed anoxic marine basin a structure that makes it exceptionally vulnerable to external pressures.
Rivers are at the heart of that

The Black Sea is the world’s largest semi-enclosed anoxic marine basin: below approximately 150m, oxygen is virtually absent, and the water column supports almost no marine life aside from specific anaerobic bacteria (Stanev et al., 2018). This is a naturally occurring feature of