Riverbed incision not only destroys life in rivers but undermines infrastructure Check out another story: Thousands of Bulgarians march to save Pirin, Vitosha and Rila national and nature parks Sofia, ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Orthodox Christian ... Young men plunged into rivers and lakes across the Balkan country, which is primarily Orthodox, to retrieve crucifixes tossed by ...

Since 1964, under a World War Two reparations agreement between the two neighbours, water from Bulgaria's mountains has flowed freely along the Arda River into 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares ...