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The riverbed of the Jialing river in China's southwestern city of Chongqing, a tributary of the Yangtze river, runs dry as the country is hit by record temperatures and droughts. IMAGES
Fisherman Henry Schneider had to stop working for several months after a toxic algae bloom hit the Oder river last August, decimating his catch. Schneider, whose family has made its living from the river running along the Polish-German border for over a century, finally took up his activities again in May, but the risk is still very present: "If it happens again this year then there will be nothing to fish in this river for the next few years," he warns. The sudden catastrophe wiped out more than half of the fish in the river, but Prymnesium parvum, the organism responsible for poisoning the fish, has not disappeared and the risk of a repeat is high, according to experts.
The proposal says all damaged ecosystems should be repaired by 2050. But the centre-right European People's Party has opposed the bill, claiming it would endanger food security in the continent.
Western US states said Monday they have reached an agreement to cut the amount of water they take from the dwindling Colorado River, which is threatened by a quarter of a century of drought and worsening climate conditions. The plan comes after years of bitter wrangling, with states refusing to give ground even as the water course has reached crisis point, threatening drinking water supplies for 40 million people and imperiling electricity generation across the American West. For deeper insight and analysis, FRANCE 24 is joined by Carmen de Jong, Professor at University of Strasbourg.
The thousands of fish deaths in August sparked a political row between Poland and Germany,
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