{"id":229940,"date":"2026-06-02T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229940"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:54:27","slug":"europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229940","title":{"rendered":"Europe removes record number of dams in 2025 to restore rivers, help species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive slab of wartime concrete blocked the P\u010dinja River in Kumanovo, North Macedonia for more than 70 years. A 53-meter-long and 30-meter-wide (174 by 98 feet) structure of reinforced concrete packed with salvaged railway steel impeded the free flow of water and fish for at least 70 kilometers (44 miles) upstream&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2026\/06\/europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive slab of wartime concrete blocked the P\u010dinja River in Kumanovo, North Macedonia for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229940-europe-removes-record-number-of-dams-in-2025-to-restore-rivers-help-species-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}