Activist Who Fought for Legal Rights for Europe's Largest Saltwater Lagoon Wins 'Green Nobel' newsmax.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsmax.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
growing up, teresa vicente spent long days in spain’s mar menor swimming in transparent waters, cupping seahorses in her hands and partying under the moonlit sky. out there, she recalled, time stood still. but over the decades, chronic contamination from mining, development and agricultural runoff turned the once crystal-clear waters of europe’s largest saltwater lagoon into a graveyard. a mass fish die-off in 2019 prompted the professor of philosophy of law at the university of murcia to take action. ov
Alok Shukla led a successful community campaign that saved 445,000 acres of biodiversity-rich forests from 21 planned coal mines in Chhattisgarh | Latest News India
Seven grassroots environmental activists were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 29. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six continental regions. This year’s winners include two Indigenous activists who stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off the Eastern Cape in Africa, an activist who protected a forest […]