'We have nothing to keep the sea out': the struggle to save Spain's Ebro Delta

After Storm Gloria devastated one of the Mediterranean's largest wetlands, an urgent search has begun for solutions to protect it from further floods and creeping water levelsA month after Storm Gloria battered the east coast of Spain, the extent of the devastation to the Ebro Delta is only now becoming clear. Those whose livelihoods depend on the region are demanding solutions amid fears that rising seas will further threaten the fragile ecosystems of the Mediterranean's most important wetland.Storm Gloria brought rain, snow and flooding to most of Spain, but it was the east coast that was hardest hit, with high winds whipping the normally placid Mediterranean with such ferocity that plastic containers of products that haven't been on the market in decades washed up on Catalan beaches. Continue reading...