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"Wetlands and Water" is this year’s theme for World Wetland Day. On this occasion, Prof. Tomasz Okruszko, one of the experts of the Advisory Team for Climate Crisis to the PAS President, explains why wetlands are so important to us. The 6th IAHR Europe Congress, co-organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the PAS Institute of Geophysics and the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, will be taking place shortly.
The number of costal floods in the Baltic Sea basin will increase within the next 30 years. What’s more, in a 100-year perspective the historic center of Gdańsk may disappear under water. The Interdisciplinary Advisory Team for the Climate Crisis to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences issued a communiqué on sea-level rise.
One group that is particularly vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19 is children and adolescents. Although they are less susceptible to the severe physical manifestation of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the psychological and educational effects of the pandemic can be very serious for them, sometimes lasting much longer than the pandemic itself.
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