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Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and two Romanian colleagues report in the January issue of ...

Romania's Ornithology Society reveals a massacre in the Danube Delta UNESCO reservation through the hunting of some bird species that are strictly protected by international laws. Thus, between January 2-9 in the Danube Delta there were found two dead and ...

The waters of the Danube may not quite be blue, but they are definitely becoming cleaner thanks to cooperation between the countries through which it flows, a new study revealed yesterday. In the words of the findings of the Joint Danube ...

The youngest branch of the Danube Delta stretches for some 72 miles along the border with Ukraine and has the greatest flow of water (approximately 60%) of the three arms. Its shores are home to several scattered villages – Patlageanca, ...

Over 300 species of bird have been recorded, of which over 176 species breed, the most important being: Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis (3,000 pairs) Pygmy cormorant P. pygmeus (K) (2,500 ...

The water fauna includes 160 fish species: 75 species of fresh water fish, 70 species of clams, shells and snails, microscopic animals and deep-water species. They form one of the greatest wealth of Danube Delta. Among the ...

At the end of the great river Danube's journey through Europe to the Black Sea there spreads out a natural paradise unparalleled in Europe, where canals, lakes, reed islands, pastures and sand dunes cover over 5,165 sq km ...

Every year, the alluvium deposited by the Danube increases the width of the Delta by around 40 meters, making it extremely dynamic. Near Tulcea, the Danube is divided in three river branches before it flows into the Sea: Chilia, Sulina and Sfântu Gheorghe (Saint George), but many other channels split ...