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The Oder (/ ˈ oʊ d ər / OH-dər, German: ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [a] Upper Sorbian: Wódra) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta . [ 1 ]
Dead fish as a result of the 2022 environmental disaster at the Oder river (13 August 2022) The ecosystem of the river was severely damaged. Scientists are concerned that if the damage was caused by mercury poisoning, detrimental effects could be long term as mercury is a persistent heavy metal. [23]
Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder and an association of fishermen in Zielona Gora, a city in western Poland, said Friday it was suspending fishing in the river due to the ...
2 River system. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of rivers of Poland. ... Oder: Baltic Sea: 840 520 726 451 119,074 45,975 106,043 40,943 Warta: Oder ...
In Frankfurt an der Oder, an ironic sign reads, “Frankfurt Oder/Slubice – no borders.” Slubice is the Polish town across the fast-flowing Oder river that marks the beginning of German ...
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 billion (3.8 billion euros in the Czech Republic and Poland and 330 million euros in Germany).
The Lower Oder Valley International Park is a shared German-Polish nature reserve. It comprises the western banks of the Oder (Polish: Odra) river within the Uckermark district in the German state of Brandenburg as well as the steep eastern banks in the Gryfino and Police counties of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship further north.
The Oder–Spree Canal (German: Oder-Spree-Kanal pronounced [ˌoːdɐˈʃpʁeː.kaˌnaːl] ⓘ), is a canal in the east of Germany. It links the Dahme river, at Schmöckwitz in the south-eastern suburbs of Berlin , with the River Oder , at Eisenhüttenstadt .