'We will have to share the water': a quarter of small waterways in France have run dry

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Source: France 24

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, July 17: China reacts after the UK nationalises its last remaining virgin steel factory, expropriating Chinese Jingye Group. In other news, low rainfall in May followed by three intense heatwaves have 100 French departments under water restrictions. Also, in Central Asia, a team of Spanish scientists want to refill a long-desertified lake, in the hopes of preventing further CO2 release. Finally, in the UK, a beaver has found love.

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