When crises push to reinvent, the Mediterranean reveals itself once again as a melting pot of initiative, memory, and restored biodiversity. In Valencia, interior architecture becomes an act of solidarity after the climate disaster. In Anatolia, the mineral landscapes tell the story of deep time. In Palestine, literature asserts itself as testimony and a collective voice where the political falters. And on the French coast, the seahorse stands as a messenger of an ecosystem that we are now committed to restoring.
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Interior designers rehabilitate the homes of thousands of disaster victims
On October 29, 2024, a "cold drop" struck Valencia and its region, sweeping away houses, leaving thousands of families homeless, and disrupting lives. In the face of this disaster, more than 200 professionals chose action over paralysis. United under the banner Interioristas en Acción, they rehabilitated damaged housing, transforming solidarity into a concrete tool for reconstruction and an inspiring model. 22-med.com
Hiking in the surreal hills of Anatolia
Located northwest of Ankara, the hill of Nallıhan displays its multicolored layers, testimonies of millions of years of geological history. In this almost unreal setting, the meeting of stone and fauna creates a unique landscape. As one sets out to discover this singular place with the hiking group Patika 14, an impression arises: that of walking on another planet.
What can literature do when Palestine cannot?
At the moment when a Franco-Saudi initiative at the UN places the recognition of the State of Palestine on the international agenda, it turns out that shards of lucidity, even before those of politicians, can emerge from poetry and literature. What do three recent works by Moroccan authors, each addressing Palestine in a different way, tell us?
The seahorse as a sign of the restoration of biodiversity in the Mediterranean!
Symbol of Six-Fours-les-Plages, a seaside town on the French coast located in Var, the seahorse has disappeared from the "lagoon" of Brusc – actually a lagoon closed by a posidonia reef. The cause: the collapse, in the early 2000s, of the seagrass bed of cymodocea that structured the entire ecosystem.