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Half a Century of Public Participation to Stop Pollution in the Alviela River, from 1957 to Today

by Sofia Bento, Teresa Bezerra Meira, Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes, and Oriana Rainho Brás

This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.

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“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany

by Katrin Kleemann

In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.

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