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Visitors to Bosnia's Mount Bjelasnica lugged skis through mud to reach ski-lifts this week as spring-like weather following the planet's hottest January spoilt their usual winter activity. "I was caught by surprise when I saw this mud, it's different from the last year," said Aida Dedic, a skier who had travelled to Bjelasnica from the Netherlands. Other European ski destinations, such as Italy, have also seen entire mountains snowless and ski centres abandoned as rising temperatures threaten the skiing industry worldwide.

Visitors to the otherwise picturesque historic town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia are first greeted by the sight of a huge floating waste dump caught in the deep turquoise waters of the Drina river canyon. The Drina winds its way through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia, where the Visegrad hydro-power plant built a makeshift barrier out of old oil drums in the depths of the canyon some 20 years ago, protecting its dam from the debris carried by the river. "There are about 5,000 cubic metres of different kinds of waste," said Eko Center Visegrad's Dejan Furtula, pointing to the tr...

Plastic peril: Drina river pollution poses threat to tourism and health in Bosnia's Visegrad | Travel