Frontiers 2025: The Weight of Time Report

On 10th July 2025, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its Frontiers 2025 report, ‘The Weight of Time: Facing New Age Challenges for People and Ecosystems’, warning that intensified river and coastal flooding could remobilise long-buried legacy toxic chemicals from sediments, threatening ecosystems and human health.

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Clearing the Path: Barrier Removal for River Restoration

  • While dams have historically provided hydropower, irrigation, and flood control, they have also fragmented ecosystems and disrupted the lives of indigenous and local fishing communities.
  • Increasingly, the removal of obsolete or unsafe dams is emerging as a powerful tool for river restoration, especially ....
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