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It is heart warming to get some good environmental news. And that is exactly what this article on the Danube and other European rivers is.

The Danube shows signs of improving water quality and still contains significant natural populations of flora and fauna which are typical for such a large river.

Jaguars still roam the world's largest wetland and endangered Hyacinth Macaws nest in its trees but advancing farms and industries are destroying Brazil's Pantanal region at an alarming rate.The degradation of the landlocked river delta on the upper Paraguay river which straddles Brazil's borders with Bolivia

The first evidence that onchocerciasis elimination is feasible with ivermectin treatment was published today in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Onchocerciasis is also called river blindness because the blackfly which transmits the disease breeds in rivers; it often blinds people, as well as causing debilitating skin disease.

Visited Burma in 1985 and again last month. It has not changed one iota in over 24 years.