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Europeans politicians are catching onto the voters’ awakening interest in the environment. Is ecology compatible with politics?
Where do newer, smaller parties like the Dutch ‘Party for Animals’ (PvdD), with its prominent logo of a cow contently chewing on a flower, fit into the political spectrum?
EU member states will come together for a conference on road safety held on 3-4 November in Verona. The event focuses on road accidents which cause almost 43,000 deaths each year
A human being weighing 70 kilos needs to drink 2,1 litres of water per day. Yet only 1% of the water available on earth is drinkable. And nearly 70% of this water is used for irrigation
Dried water, artificial rivers, icebergs in the Thames or space agencies searching for artificial water are just a few of the methods used to fight the current water shortage
Despite the new EU’s new fishing agreement with Morocco, fishermen in Andalusia fear for their future
Once a favourite of the flower power generation, living on a canal boat has become a privilege for the young and affluent. Today modern houseboats are not longer dingy eccentric dwellings for the marginal, but fully equipped modern pads
For years the unspoiled beauty of Montenegro used to be the best kept secret in Europe. Now the sights of old Venetian squares, spectacular mountains, bays, sandy beaches are once more a favourite destination for globe-trotters around the world
Iceland, summer 2006
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After the article about the dangerous status of our Baltic sea and the plans for saving it promoted by the last Helsinki conference, we went out in Tallinn taking pictures of our coast. And the results do not seem to be so encouraging...
Babelyon's Marie Signoret has just published in cafebabel.com an article about the anti-SUVs movement in Lyon.
On the 30th March 2008, the Olympic torch lit only one week ago, has now finished travelling around its native country Greece before leaving for Peking where the Olympic games will be held amidst a lot of controversy. These games have already been criticized all over the world recently. At ...