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Climate change: Europe faced with drought
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The Loiret bed (France) completely dried up in Arcenis, in August 2020 (illustration image).
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By: Juliette Rengeval Follow
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2021 has been a year of extremes, with the hottest summer in Europe, what does 2022 have in store for us?
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In northern
Italy
and in the Po plain, the lack of precipitation this winter has left the largest Italian river dry… the water level is now experiencing a record drop for the period.
In this agricultural region, NGOs and local actors fear an irreversible drought.
The details of
Blandine Hugonnet.
Portugal
too
suffered a severe winter drought, which promises a very dry summer.
The country lacks water, but global warming does not explain everything... the programming of crops, an agriculture that consumes too much water: it's a whole model that needs to be rethought.
A report by
Marie-Line Darcy.
Dry lakes in Turkey
Turkey is
one
of the countries in the Mediterranean basin that suffers the most from climate change.
Yet Ankara only ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in October 2021, the last of the G20 members to do so.
A series of disasters – from floods to massive forest fires – constantly remind him of his fragility, and now it's the disappearance of the lakes that worries him.
In Istanbul,
Anne Andlauer.
Great victims of climate change: the forests of the south of the continent
In
Bosnia and Herzegovina
, forests cover more than half of the territory, but for lack of adequate legislation and political will, they remain subject to economic pressure: barely more than 2% of the Bosnian territory benefits from a label of protection.
It must be said that in the midst of the political tensions that agitate the country, the ecological emergency and environmental issues are struggling to be heard.
In Banja Luka,
Louis Seiller
followed an NGO that tries to raise awareness among city dwellers about the protection of biodiversity and their forests.
Music with Vincent Théval:
Jimi Tenor,
Birthday Magic.
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