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Fixing Europe’s water
Is a new €1bn infrastructure fund the answer to Europe’s flooding problems? Or is a more drastic plan needed?
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Why I'm obsessed with litter
You’re lucky to get a few seconds between spotting roadside refuse when driving in Britain. Tackling this is an easy win for the government
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Bologna, the city that is slowly drowning
The food capital of Italy is becoming a victim of the apocalyptic rising levels of the Ravone River
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Why I’m taking a stand in Ilkley
Sewage discharges are a regular practice in Britain and they are a threat to people’s health. The public are outraged
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Just don’t eat the Bude mussels
Decades ago, holidaymakers in Bude knew that when you went in the sea, you kept your mouth shut. Today, that rule is back
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The anglers spotted the water crisis first
How we treat our land is revealed in its freshwaters and the anglers are there to notice it first
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Turning a colander into a sponge in Belgium
In Brussels, rain has become all we talk about; we plan our social life around it
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Spain’s invasion of the jellyfish
To the dismay of tourists and locals, monstrous medusas are thriving in the Mediterranean’s warming waters
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Europe under water
Flooding from the River Danube has been a horrifying experience – and the clean-up has only just begun.
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Ireland’s small catch
Legal battles are ongoing to protect the wild fish populations in the loughs of the west of Ireland from the threat of salmon farming
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Sicily is gasping for water
When the island’s agriculture sector suffers, its tourism industry soon feels the consequences
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Tourism can ill afford oil spills on the beach
Valencia’s shores are paying the price of booming seasonal tourism
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Taking over from the inside: China’s growing reach into local waters
The superpower of seafood dominates more than just the high seas
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Addressing this growing emergency must be a core national mission
Labour carries a heavy mantle of responsibility to this generation and those that will follow
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Dog poo and the nature of things
French relationships with the environment are more practical compared with British attitudes, which tend to be more sentimental
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The bumblebee conundrum
Why do some people believe bees shouldn’t be able to fly? For the same reason others believe in Nessie or that climate change is a hoax
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Britain’s first dirty water crisis
Something is rotten in our rivers and off our coasts, taking the country back to Victorian times
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Is it time to try a third way of water?
Thames Water is a national scandal, but in Wales a not-for-profit counterpart goes from strength to strength
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Germansplaining: Our long, colonial history with elephants
Germany should accept the gift of 20,000 elephants from Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, with both remorse and open arms
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Has the ECHR overreached on climate change?
A case brought by Swiss pensioners could be a turning point for the court
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Norway’s fjords take a bruising from cruising
Banning cruise ships may reduce pollution on the water, but it also creates its own set of issues
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Surfing with the no-beach boys of Munich
The Eisbach river offers the city’s residents an eccentric gift: a surfing wave in landlocked Bavaria
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Valencia’s green agenda in reverse
Spain’s third city is becoming less environmentally friendly since the new council introduced its pro-car agenda
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Belgium’s recycling success stinks
Belgians are meant to be recycling champions, but it’s a different story in Brussels
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Remembering Turkey’s earthquake, one year on
Next month’s local elections are sure to bring extensive debate over how the disaster was handled by local government
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Steering clear of trouble in the heart of the EU
Brussels is accustomed to demonstrations but the farmers’ protests were a different story
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The return of the French farmers
The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM
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A Spanish gardener in Yorkshire
Today, the man who fled the Spanish civil war for Cleckheaton would’ve been deemed part of an ‘invasion’
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When the earth cracked open at Grindavík
Evacuation orders were issued just hours before the eruption in the south-west of Iceland
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Oil and gas will soon be things of the past. No wonder Sunak is drawn to them
The prime minister’s legacy looks even worse with his illogical energy policy
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Nantes, the city of ‘I don’t see why not’
The latest eccentricity in the city on the Loire is the perfect illustration of its unofficial motto
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Germansplaining: Our farmers are furious
Their sentiment reflects a massive frustration with the government felt by most Germans