Black Triangle (region)
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The Black Triangle is the border region between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, long characterized by extremely high levels of pollution. The term was coined in the 1980s. For decades, industr
Turów Power Station, a thermal power station in Bogatynia, Poland
Effects of acid rain in the Jizera Mountains in 2006
Turów Coal Mine, southern Poland
Jizera Mountains
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Jizera Mountains or Izera Mountains are part of the Western Sudetes on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland. The range got its name from the Jizera River, which rises at the southern base
Black Triangle (region)
…Triangle were huge quantities of particulate emissions, heavy metals, sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides which largely destroyed adjacent forests of the Jizera Mountains with acid rain, and measurable impact on health and life expectancy. After the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, in June 1991 the three nations…
View over Liberec to the Jizera Mountains from Mt. Ještěd
Sněžné věžičky (Czech "snow turret"): picturesque rock pinnacle in the Jizerské hory
Dense forests on the Smrk summit around 1900
Forest dieback on top of the Smrk in 2003