Natural History Wanderings

The Revelator reports

A celebrated 1,200 dams have been removed in the United States in the past two decades. And meanwhile Europe has quietly removed 4,000 river barriers. Here’s how its dam-removal movement has taken off.

A growing movement across the continent is working to remove thousands of barriers and restore some of the world’s most fragmented rivers.

Read more at Europe’s Surprising Record of Dam Removals • The Revelator