River Restoration: 2025 Marks a Record Year for Dam Removals in Europe
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River restoration: 2025 marks a record year for dam removals in Europe
River restoration is becoming an increasingly central policy in many European countries. According to the latest report by Dam Removal Europe, a coalition of environmental groups, as many as 603 dams, barriers, underground culverts and locks were removed during 2025 across 21 countries. In many cases these infrastructures had been abandoned, and their removal allowed 3,740 kilometers of rivers to be reconnected. For some countries, such as Icela…
As part of operations aimed at restoring the ecological balance of rivers across Europe, more than 600 dams, locks, and weirs on rivers were dismantled and destroyed by 2025.
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