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France’s Environment Minister Monique Barbut plans to resign after lawmakers passed a controversial farm bill that temporarily reauthorizes the banned pesticide acetamiprid for nut producers and doubles farmers’ water-storage allowances, a move she opposed that exposes rifts within Macron’s centrists and heightens tensions between environmental safeguards and agricultural interests.
Half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are experiencing declining water storage due to human activity and climate change, according to a study. The research combined global satellite measurements with climate and hydrologic models to detect trends in lake water storage for nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs from 1992 to 2020. About 53% of the water bodies studied were found to have experienced significant water losses over the last 28 years at a rate of roughly 22 gigatonnes, or 1 billion metric tons, per year. The declining water storage could affect a quarter of the world's population.
A protester is in critical condition after clashes with police during a demonstration against the construction of water storage facilities in Sainte-Soline, France. Seven protesters and 29 policemen were injured during the clashes. The protesters were trying to stop the construction of giant water "basins" to irrigate crops, which they say will distort access to water amid drought conditions. The clashes came after days of unrest elsewhere in France over President Emmanuel Macron's pensions reform.