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Reforesting Albania's marine flora

Wolf Gebhardt | Julia Mielke
November 5, 2021

Warming sea temperatures, pollution and dynamite fishing are causing Adriatic marine forests to disappear. The worrying trend prompted Albanian experts to join a Mediterranean program to restore them with algae.

https://p.dw.com/p/42XTx
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