Caption

Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Sunny winter landscape in the Ruhr area, ice and snow on the renaturalised Boye, the small river is being renaturalised, is being transformed into a near-natural body of water, the Boye is part of the Emscher river system and thus part of the Emscher conversion, was previously an open, above-ground wastewater canal, mixed water canal with surface water and wastewater

Date

Feb 09, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25D90_413

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NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

128,1Mb (6,4Mb) / 27,3in x 18,2in / 8192 x 5464 (300dpi)

Keywords

deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty blue Blue little small tiny new building new buildings new construction new constructions modification modifications alteration conversion bridge bridges pont vegetation vegetations snow snow creek creeks brook brooks stream little River small river river rivers waters water body body of water climate climates environment protection environment protection environmental protection environmental conservation global warming global warming environment environment season seasons winter in Winter winter time wintry winterly Wintery nature open air Ruhr district Ruhr area Ruhr Ruhrgebiet Ruhr region North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German flora flora Europe Europe's natural preserve natural preserves nature park natural park nature park Naturpark reserve reserves protected area sanctuary conservation area cold climate protection climate control climate protection open opened climate change climate change natural original originally sunny rural snow-capped snowy snowcapped snow-covered snow covered covered with snow snow-clad waterway waterways canal canals water canal water canals channel landscape landscapes scenery sceneries landscape photograph countryside landscape shot landscape photo ecofriendly eco-friendly environmentally friendly Environmental friendly frosty european frost frost sewage effluent wastewater sewages Waste water effluents renaturation renaturation nature reserve nature reserves natural preserve natural preserves nature conservation area NSG natural reserve environmental reserve burden burdens stress River landscape riverine landscape riverine landscapes River landscapes river scenery river sceneries Riverscape River view water protection water protection contamination contaminations pollution polluting creep creeping creeps meandering meander winding winds winding curling Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD seminatural semi-natural close to nature near-natural renaturated renaturalised overground above-ground travel photography Bottrop countryside in the country contaminated dirty polluted Emscher course of a river river course course of the river natural environment natural surrounding meander meandering meanders Central Europe Middle Europe climate crisis meandering meander river meander snowy landscape winter landscape winter landscapes wintry landscape wintry landscapes winter scene River system Water landscape Waterscape Surface water Emscher conversion