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French PM Valls says Seine river stable after floods kill four
2016-06-04 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Floods that inundated parts of France this week, killing four and forcing thousands from their homes, could start easing as the Seine river stabilized after reaching a peak on Saturday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said. The floods, the worst the French capital has seen since 1982, forced its famous Louvre and Orsay museums to move scores of artworks and precious artifacts to safety. It also disrupted traffic in several areas. The Seine river rose to about 6.10 meters (20.0 ft) on Saturday...
'There's something terrifying about it': rise of the river Seine
2016-06-03 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Incredible, thats all I can say, muttered Catherine, a publishing editor, as she stared dumbfounded at the river water that had swallowed up the busy road running along the banks of the Seine near her Paris apartment. Roads and picturesque cobbled walkways in the French capital have disappeared, submerged by a vast expanse of brown river water carrying an unusual assortment of debris including logs, big wooden planks and a metal sign from a boat-club in its angry, swirling current. The rain-swollen...
River Seine to set to keep rising as Louvre closes its doors
2016-06-03 01:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
France24: The River Seine in Paris surged to its highest level in more than 30 years on Thursday, shutting down the famed Louvre and Orsay museums, and is set to continue to rise on Friday as more bad weather arrives in flood-hit France. Some towns in central France have been hit by their worst floods in over a century, with more than 5,000 people evacuated since the weekend and around 19,000 homes without power, after several days of torrential rain. In Evry-Gregy-sur-Yerre, south of Paris, a man on...
Indigenous activists take to Seine river to protest axing of rights from Paris climate pact
2015-12-07 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indigenous groups from across the world staged a paddle down the Seine river in Paris on Sunday, calling on governments to ensure Indigenous rights are included in the United Nations climate pact currently being negotiated in France. The United States, the EU, Australia and other states have pushed for Indigenous rights to be dropped from the binding parts of the agreement out of fear that it could create legal liabilities. Indigenous representatives from North and South America, Indonesia...
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