Tensions rise as another major mobilization approaches

Between Tuesday and next Sunday, at least 10,000 people are expected by organizers at the “Water Village” in Melle (Deux-Sèvres), a few kilometers from Sainte-Soline, where violent clashes will take place in March 2023. He confronted some demonstrators and the police. Around 200 elected officials from various political parties, including the deputy ecologist for Deux-Sèvres, … Read more

polluted Spanish lagoon strikes back in court

the European Commission

From crusading to save a disappearing lagoon by guaranteeing one’s legal rights to building treehouses to reintroduce bat populations, environmental activists in Spain are doing what it takes to protect local waterways from pollution and biodiversity loss. Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon, the Mar Menor in Spain, is slowly being polluted by pollution from intensive agriculture … Read more

A weekend of events and calm before the storm in Water Village

LA good-natured atmosphere prevails in the water village. In this temporary and alternative camp set up for several days in the center of the village of Deux-Sévrian, the police nevertheless control all entrances and exits. All visitors, including journalists, are subjected to the same treatment: identity check, bag search. Goodbye little Swiss army knife, Opinel … Read more

five bodies have been recovered and fifty people are still missing

The accident happened around 3:30 a.m. on Friday (9:45 p.m. Paris time on Thursday), a hundred kilometers west of the capital Kathmandu, on the road connecting the towns of Narayanghat and Mugling. Nepal’s armed police spokesman Kumar Neupane said more than 300 officers, including divers, searched the river for passengers and two buses. A state … Read more