Clean Danube:
The Danube River—Europe’s second-longest river—is a bustling thoroughfare for shipping, a tranquil refuge for summer holidays, a source of power, and a haven for wildlife. It’s also the conduit for four metric tons of microplastics a day that wash into the Black Sea.
In this cover story for issue #9, read how Andreas Fath—“the Swimming Professor” of Germany’s Furtwangen University—swam the length of the Danube in a monumental 57-day journey to raise awareness of its pollution challenges.
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