The straightening of once-wild rivers, deforestation, damming, industrial pollution, wastewater discharges, and agriculture’s usurpation of shorelines and wetlands has made Europe’s rivers all ...

Will dams spoil one of Europe’s last wild rivers? Albania’s Vjosa River also faces other development threats, including an airport. Designating the river a national park could save it.

One of Europe's last wild rivers, the Vjosa winds some 272km from Greece's Pindus Mountains to Albania's Adriatic coast, coursing through narrow gorges and expansive valleys, its blue-green waters ...

Europe's rivers are awash with organic chemicals that can kill or subtly harm aquatic life, according to the most extensive survey yet of pollution in the continent's major river basins ...